Abertooth Lincoln’s bassist Andrew Humphrey is running a little late. Humphrey currently lives in Oxford, which is about an hour from the band’s headquarters in Dayton. The rest of the band, Jacob Gandert on vocals, guitarist James Lampe, Josh Gandert on sax/keyboards, and drummer Mike Werthmann are already where we all agreed to meet up, which is where the band lives and practices. It is one of the most beautiful nights that has graced the Dayton area in the past few months. The weather has been miserable around the Dayton area, with the amount of snow that equals to what most mountain regions receive.
I met up with the band outside of the meeting place, which was located a little outside of town. As soon as Humphrey arrived, he quickly apologized for being a little late. Driving an hour to come and meet up with everyone and also practice shouldn’t call for being sorry. The band and myself entered the home, and quickly opened up the windows. This was an evening that shouldn’t be wasted with the cool air swirling around outside.
It was just four years ago when Abertooth Lincoln formed. At that time Werthmann, and Lampe were just coming out of their previous band, He Laughs He Learns He Loves. Along with Caleab Wyant (keyboard, vocals), Eric Rieper (sounds, vocals) and Matt Conner (bass), He Laughs He Learns He Loves just dropped their long awaited full length album which was titled Say Yes To Everything. The album, which featured a heavy concoction of electronica, punk and metal in each of the songs, took over three years to be produced and then be released. The making of the album took its toll on everyone involved. Becoming burnt out with playing the songs they recorded to the point where they hated them, disagreements, along with the direction of the band gave everyone the conclusion that it was time to move on. Shortly after the album release party concluded, He Laughs He Learns He Loves called it quits. “We spent way too long on one project”, says Lampe. “When it was finally done (the album) that now we can listen to and think it sounds cool, but by the time it came out we all couldn’t stand it.” (more…)
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