Post-hardcore supergroup Evil Island has released their debut album, Terraform The Afterlife, which features Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto on “T-Hexx.”
It marks his first vocal performance since 2001’s The Argument. During the preproduction of the LP, vocalist Johnny Whitney was doing his best impression of Picciotto and realized they should reach out to collaborate on the track.
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“Guy’s been my musical hero since I was in 8th grade,” Whitney says. “If Fugazi had never existed, there’s a very real chance that me and everyone I grew up with never would’ve become musicians at all. The first time I heard our voices together on the finished track, it genuinely felt like an out-of-body experience.
“‘T-Hexx’ stood out from the first day of recording as an absolute monster. Cody’s riffs are so absurdly huge they almost sound sarcastic. It’s a song about power as a terminal illness in the age of Amazon Prime morality — you want it, you got it, so take it… Let’s have it. It’s the sound of a dinosaur biting through the front doors of a cancer ward and somehow convincing everyone inside that they’re the asshole.”
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