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Rampant Rumors, Reunion Mania

FAILURE REUNION?

 Friday, June 18th, 2010 at 1:30pm by

Reign in Blonde’s Elise reminded me of my love of heavy space rock pioneers Failure with a post this morning about the vinyl re-release of their album Fantastic Planet. Never heard of Failure? If you’re a fan of Jupiter-era Cave In and, by extension, the whole Caspian/Constants/Junius axis of spaced-out heavy rock, then you definitely owe Failure a listen at the very least. And if you also dig the Quicksand/Helmet/[early]Deftones axis of heavy pseudo post-hardcore, this’ll be right up your alley.

Does the re-release of Fantastic Planet mean Failure will reunite? Who knows, but it’s certainly a possibility. Ken Andrews is doing quite fine for himself as a successful producer and mixer, so if a Failure reunion happens it’ll presumably be for the fun of it… which is a good thing.

Magnified is actually the Failure album with which I’m most familiar. I dig the title track, which Cave In actually covered at some point.

-VN

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  • http://www.reigninblonde.com Elise

    <3

  • hyperkulturemia

    These dudes were way ahead of their time.

  • orbital

    one of my favorite bands of all time. I got into them when Magnified came out. I got an email about the vinyl and t-shirt deal last week.

  • Cryzthormagnusian

    You got my attention at Quicksand. I can see some things I like about this band just at a glance through some audio clips. I could definitly check out some more from this band.

    But what I really want to do now is listen to Quicksand and I don’t have any of thier stuff here at work. DAMN YOU!

  • blahblah

    i know both MS and RIB are blogs and that makes you think you are exempt from journalistic responsibility, but come the fuck on, there is nothing at all indicating a reunion. and yes, a vinyl release is nothing, as if you havent noticed, there is a vinyl craze going on, and every notable album ever is being released/reissued on vinyl (PANTERA REISSUES? REUNION?!?). its not hard to figure out that the few failure fans out there worship this album and would probably buy anything related to it, so im sure this is nothing more than warner exploiting that for a few extra dollars. not to mention every failure member is pretty busy doing other things, greg about to release another autolux album and tour, ken being a father and in demand producer, troy with sweethead and some band called queens of the stone age, and kelli is probably in about 20 bands in LA. would it kill you guys to just report that the album is being released on vinyl, and at most add in a wish for a reunion, instead of basing a whole post and headline around a false rumor?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cxv8TCcNBQ

    • Matt Steele

      Also, this post kind of gave me the feeling of this coming from the author:

      “I heard this band because Cave In covered ‘Magnified’ once, so I bought the CD and listened to it a few times. Oh, they’re releasing an LP and a lot of metal fans might like them, so let me write about it. And then let me say they might be reuniting, based on absolutely nothing.”

    • bearbomb

      I came when I saw this headline but unfortunately I think you’re right. It pretty much means nothing in terms of a reunion. I had no idea Cave In covered one of their songs, I’ll have to check it out. A Perfect Circle also covered a tune from them, and quite badly at that.

      • hyperkulturemia

        APC did an amazing live cover which was exactly like Failure but better since Maynard can wail, but when they went to lay it down as an album track, they changed it into some pussy lullaby remix version.

        • bearbomb

          Well good to know they redeemed themselves live. Paramore did a cover of Stuck On You (don’t ask me how I know that) which is sheer blasphemy no matter how you slice it.

    • stu1

      I bet Kelli would jump at the chance, since he’s more or less a hired gun on the club circuit. He was doing Veruca Salt, too, which isn’t really a “sweet gig.” And Troy doesn’t really count, does he?

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joel-Bailey/1624089874 Joel Bailey

        Troy’s still busy with QOTSA

  • http://www.cerebralmetalhead.com Satan Rosenbloom

    While I agree with Blahblah in spirit, this post wasn’t actually suggesting that a reunion was in the works or even a remote possibility. It’s just something to stoke the fires of hope.

    Personally, I would love to see Failure reunite, partly because none of Andrews/Edwards’ post-Failure projects even touched their Failure work. I actually like Autolux a lot, and there were select songs from On, Year of the Rabbit and Andrews’ solo record that I dug. But scheisse, Failure could do no wrong on Magnified and Fantastic Planet. The latter was one of those records that reminded me there was still plenty of undiscovered territory in alt-rock. One of my favorites of the 90s.

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/62449cbe5ea8d22bcc2e76890fceaa37.png Lord Bling

    “Magnified is actually the Failure album with which I’m most familiar.”

    OMG, listen to Fantastic Planet RIGHT NOW. Masterpiece.

  • JR

    Wish they would get back together but I doubt it will ever happen.

    Fantastic Planet is one of my favorite albums of all time. Failure rules.

  • http://www.myspace.com/msrp Nic Heidt

    !!!!!!!! I love fantastic planet, one of my fav albums of all time. I hope they get back together.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joel-Bailey/1624089874 Joel Bailey

    I’d be the first person to buy a plane ticket to see Failure do a reunion show. I saw them twice when they were together and I’m a fan for life.

    That being said… Seeing Ken Andrews come through town with the 5 members of First Wave Hello as his backing band was a better show than Failure put on in the 90′s. To see those songs performed with that live setup was insane. FWH helped Ken actually play the songs off Fantastic Planet the way they sounded on the record.

    As long as Ken keeps touring occasionally, I’ll be a happy camper.

  • Reaper Man

    why yes I do enjoy the Quicksand/Helmet/[early]Deftones axis of heavy pseudo post-hardcore, thank you