Zig-Zags are readying their RidingEasy Records debut They’ll Never Take Us Alive for release on May 10th. In anticipation of the upcoming effort, this week the LA-based metal trio unleashed a brand new single entitled “Fallout.” Churning out thick clouds of black smoking low end, when drummer Dane Arnold drops the hammer on this cut, singer/guitarist Jed Maheu and bassist Caleb Miller fall in lock step before unleashing a pummeling thrash attack.
While They’ll Never Take Us Alive is the band’s first record for RidingEasy, since their initial self-released efforts in 2011, Zig-Zags have–by their own estimation–logged: “7 singles, 3 albums, 3 bass players, 2 drummers, and God knows how many shows.” The band’s 2017 tour of Europe left them “coughing blood and taking names” until pushing it into the red one too many times yielded a bad case of “Rock’n’roll Pneumonia.” Worried they might end up in the proverbial “apartment above The Rainbow Room, playing video poker on Christmas Eve,” Zig-Zags report they have exchanged bottles of whiskey for barbells. The result finds them pumping some serious iron on “Fallout.” They explain:
“Listen here – it ain’t easy to play guitar and sing at the same time! But the more you focus, the more you get your head in the game, the more you push (yourselves and each other), the better it all gets. And the songs, they thank you for it. They get tougher, wilder and more raw, the more you strip them down.”
