What do you get when you combine vocalist Jacob Bannon (Converge, Umbra Vitae, Wear Your Wounds), guitarist Jesper Liveröd (ex-Nasum, ex-Burst), bassist Shane Embury (Napalm Death, Tronos, Lock Up), and drummer Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth, ex-Soilwork)? I have no idea, but we're going to find out soon.
Bannon told Mosh Talks With Beez the new band's record is done and hopefully will be released in the next few months.
"Aside from the Umbra record I actually finished another album before the pandemic situation hit here in the States. We didn’t totally put that on ice, but it definitely delayed getting that out to the world…
"It’s something totally new for me, where Umbra is a band—a proper band—and Converge and Wear Your Wounds are proper bands, this is more of a project that might have some live elements at some point. But I wrote a album with Shane Embury from Napalm Death, Dirk from Megadeth who also used to play drums in Soilwork and Jesper from Nasum.
"And we recorded a 12-song album and we’re really excited about it. And we’re gonna get that out to the world, I don’t know, hopefully in the next few months, we’ll see what happens…"
Bannon also touched on the progress of Blood Moon. Blood Moon features all of Converge, vocalist and guitarist Stephen Brodsky (Cave In, Mutoid Man), vocalist and guitarist Chelsea Wolfe, guitarist Ben Chisholm (Chelsea Wolfe).
"All I can really say is that we’re making some really powerful sounds together and we’re doing stuff that I don’t think that any of us independently have ever really done before. So what Blood Moon is evolving into with the seven of us is, I don’t know, something very powerful. It’s something really special. Right now all of us are working on it.
"We were supposed to be working on it a little bit more and all be in the same place around this time but obviously the pandemic situation derailed those plans. So we’re all working on it to the best of our abilities now."
