Sandrider Self-Titled Debut Reissue Due May 6
If you know Sandrider‘s late-2011 self-titled full-length debut (review here), then all you need is the date above. May 6, Satanik Royalty Records. There. If you don’t own it, you want to, and if you own it, you probably want to again. The word last year that the Seattle three-piece had signed to Satanik Royalty teased the possibility of new music, and that hasn’t materialized as yet — though I’ll take “ever” as a prospective release date in the absence of something more specific — but a reissue of the first record is just fine. I’m more than happy to have the excuse to revisit the album today as I put this post together.
I guess the difference between when it originally came out on Good to Die Records in 2011 and now is everybody gets the fact that the band’s name is a Dune reference. Still haven’t seen that movie. I tried, but it turns out it wasn’t Star Trek, and that’s a big factor not in favor. I’ll get there, or I won’t. Media persists as I ooze into middle-aged cluelessness on what’s relevant in popular culture and wait for my son to be old enough to explain to me why I need to care about Zendaya.
What we talking about? Oh yes. Riffs:
Satanik Royalty Records will reissue the eponymous debut full-length from Seattle grunge titans SANDRIDER on limited edition vinyl May 6th!
Initially released in 2011 on Good To Die Records, Sandrider was recorded at The Red Room by Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Isis, Mono, The Sword). While they drop the name of influences such as Pacific Northwest icons Mudhoney and Soundgarden, as well as such indie favorites like The Jesus Lizard and Drive Like Jehu, SANDRIDER hits on a sound that is all their own.
Sandrider will be released on vinyl in Yellow And Orange Splatter. Find preorders HERE: https://www.satanikroyaltyrecords.com/categories/albums
Sandrider Track Listing:
1. Children
2. The Corpse
3. Crysknife
4. Voices
5. Paper
6. The Judge
7. Scatter
In the mythology that is Frank Herbert’s Dune books, a sandrider is a person who has managed to capture and ride one of the gigantic sandworms that live on the planet Arrakis. If you can imagine someone managing to wrangle a huge wriggling creature, you have some sense of the musical power that the Seattle hard rock titans SANDRIDER has managed to tame and keep control of.
That should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the Seattle rock and metal scene, as SANDRIDER features three of the city’s most unstoppable forces: drummer Nat Damm and guitarist John Weisnewski of Akimbo, and bassist Jesse Roberts of The Ruby Doe.
Said Weisnewski, “I decided to start putting SANDRIDER together when I got an itch to start playing guitar in a band again. [Weisnewski played bass in Akimbo.] Originally it was just me and Nat playing around, but it didn’t really come together until we started talking to Jesse. I think we were bullshitting while he was tattooing me when I originally brought it up. He came down to our practice space and things clicked really well. After the first practice we were all pretty happy with how things were sounding.”
Things only improved from there. The band would be touted as one of the best bands in Seattle by alt-weekly The Stranger and quickly found themselves sharing the stage with other Pacific Northwest rock luminaries as Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth, Lesbian, and Helms Alee. Since then, SANDRIDER has released a total of three full-length albums and a split EP with Kinski with new music to be announced in the months to come.
SANDRIDER:
Jon Weisnewski – guitar, vocals
Nat Damm – drums
Jesse Roberts – bass, vocals
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