Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
Alt-rock group from Los Angeles, California Failure has announced that their seventh studio album, “Location Lost”, will be released on April 24 via Failure Records/Arduous Records/Virgin Music Group, as per Lambgoat. The band also released a music video for their new track, “The Air’s on Fire,” which was directed by Sean Stout. “Location Lost” can be pre-ordered/pre-saved at this location.
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Failure joined Slash Records in 1992, an independent label located in Los Angeles whose albums were produced and released by Warner Bros. in the US. That summer, they traveled to Minnesota to record their debut album at Pachyderm Studio, which was produced by Steve Albini. They embarked on their first of several Tool tours about the same time as “Comfort” was released in September 1992. The band sought a more pleasing, produced sound that went beyond Albini’s approach of essentially recording a band’s unadulterated live sound, and they weren’t happy with “Comfort”‘s sound or their lack of participation in the mixing process. Thus, Andrews and Edwards became producers themselves when the band returned to the studio in 1993.
Gauss departed the band in the middle of these recordings, so Edwards took up drumming himself until Kellii Scott was found to fill the void. Their first promotional video for the single “Undone” was created, but it didn’t get much, if any, airing on any of the conventional music video sources. “Magnified”, their second album, was released in March 1994. “Magnified”‘s sound and melodic innovations were noted by critics, and other, more well-known musicians started praising Failure as well. They toured with Tool once more that year, and Adam Jones, a guitarist for Tool, joined them onstage to play rhythm guitar on the “Comfort” song “Macaque” on each night of Failure‘s performance.
