The amazing band Gospel broke up a few years ago, and a number of us have felt the loss. So when it was recently announced that not only has the band reformed, but they have an album’s worth of new material ready to go and they will be playing their first show in three years tomorrow night (for a benefit to help a friend get a new liver) at Union Pool in Brooklyn bloody Brooklyn….well, that was quite the pleasant surprise. Spaketh band member Adam Dooling:

Our original plan was to keep quiet, record the album and just release it quietly. We’ve actually been “reformed” now for about a year. It was important for us to move forward musically and concentrate on writing new material. We didn’t want to put any pressure on ourselves or have anything expected of us. We also didn’t think anyone would really care. So when Matty No-Times (our old roadie and owner of Three Kings Tattoo) got sick, our plans changed to play this benefit show on his behalf. We hope to be recording our next release sometime this March. It will not be on Level-Plane.

You can check out some of Gospel’s mastery here, and info on tomorrow night’s show here.

See ya there!

-KW

It’s really sad to watch an amazing band cut its career short when there is SO much f’n promise. Gospel were definitely one of those bands — really diverse progressive hardcore sound, with one of the most impressive young drummers I’d seen in ages. Thankfully I had the pleasure of seeing these guys rockit live when they were, well, rockin it live, but jeez I really could’ve used a hell of a lot more.

Why, oh why did this group have to fall? One can only wonder if the band drama that was catalyst for their demise was worth it…

After you get your Saturday lift on, go ahead and check out a couple tracks from their only stunning full-length The Moon Is A Dead World (produced by Kurt Ballou from Converge), and then go buy it — just cause the band is done, doesn’t mean somebody ain’t collecting residuals in order to pay their rent, nawmean?

SUPPORT DEAD BANDS!!!!

GOSPEL — “Yr Electric Surge is Sweet”

GOSPEL — “A Golden Dawn”

(both from The Moon Is A Dead World (2005))

-KW