Recently Reunited Winds of Plague Might Release New Music
This is music to my little deathcore ears. Winds of Plague, who recently reunited with their original members, haven’t released anything since 2017’s Blood of My Enemy. Now that they’ve got three shows—including playing this year’s Louder Than Life in Louisville, Kentucky and Aftershock in Sacramento, California—under their belt, they may be itching to a bit more.
While at Aftershock last weekend, frontman Jonathan “Johnny Plague” Cooke-Hayden spoke with Sultans of Slack about a few things, one of them being how this lil reunion came about in the first place.
“ Really, we got asked to do these two shows, which kind of blew our minds. Like, well, we can’t not do it, right?! So I reached out to all the original guys. We all grew up, going to high school together and we started the band there, and I was, like, ‘Hey, it’d be really cool to do this’ as it’s the actual 20 years since we started Winds of Plague; that’s when we got the name and all that. So, everybody wanted to do it. We were, like, ‘Let’s see how these two shows go.’ And it was a lot of fun. I think that the general consensus is, yes, we wanna keep doing more. But as of now, this is all we have planned. Today was the end of it. So I guess we’ll see what’s next, but I think there’s definitely more to come.”
When asked about band discussions on possibility of that 2008 shit becoming some 2025 and beyond shit, Johnny Plague had a hopeful response:
“…We actually have a couple songs that we never recorded, from a couple years ago. So we started kind of revisiting those, punching those up a little bit. So there’s nothing set in stone right now, but we’re definitely leaning towards making new music, playing a couple of more shows, trying to do a couple a year. And it’s fun. It’s really awesome.
“We’ve all kind of moved on from the band stuff in our personal lives. And it’s fun to take a step back into it. It feels like a former life, and we’re all just here just for the love of it at this point. It has nothing to do with paying the bills or being the biggest band or anything like that. It’s just for the love of it. It’s awesome.”
They’re doing it for the love of it, and we’re listening for the love of it. I’m manifesting new Winds of Plague. End of story.
