Keith Buckley, vocalist of the now-defunct Every Time I Die, has launched the primary single by his new band Many Eyes. It’s known as “Revelation.” Buckley did his first Many Eyes interview with BrooklynVegan, and right here’s what he needed to say about this music:
This was about me wrestling with the anger that I had, however not in direction of anybody particularly; it was concerning the thought of alcoholism and what it had achieved to my life and that it put all my relationships in jeopardy, and that ultimately it simply got here to determine my relationships fully. So I type of anthropomorphized the vice of alcoholism, after which clearly as a result of I was studying the Bible quite a bit, I used a metaphor of simply seeing it because the satan itself, which, the extra I got here to consider it, the extra it truly felt true. It actually was essentially the most highly effective evil that I ever confronted, and it had so many alternative types and it was so sneaky and it was simply such a liar. I felt like I might take all of the anger and re-channel it into one thing that I might truly management and defeat, which was alcoholism, and it’s not simply beating it and transferring on; it’s beating it and going through it and exhibiting it to different folks and saying, “This is what it looks like. Just because I beat it doesn’t mean that everyone can, but you have to be aware of it first, and you really just need a loving support system around you, because it’s impossible to do alone.”
So that got here out and I felt like, “Man, of all the things that I wanted to talk about, or that I thought or feared that I would end up writing about that would be taken the wrong way or put under a microscope, this feels like the truest way that it ever could have come out, because it’s a channeled righteous anger into a disease that has killed too many people that I know, and almost killed me as well.” So I really feel like, it simply so occurred that it had a pleasant refrain behind it, as a result of that’s the primary foot that I wish to put down, that this subsequent journey is sober.
Many Eyes additionally function frequent Jamey Jasta (of Hatebreed) collaborators Charlie Bellmore on guitar/bass and Nick Bellmore on drums/bass/backing vocals, and Buckley additionally mentioned within the interview that the concept for Many Eyes was to combine the trio’s love of ’90s different rock (naming Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Pavement, Radiohead, and Spacehog as particular influences) with hardcore, and you’ll positively hear that coming by means of in “Revelation.” Listen beneath.
Elsewhere within the interview, Buckley mentioned, “As time went on and I got more into my sobriety, I realized that I could start writing about the positive things moving forward instead of the negative things behind me… I just really feel like this is where I’m supposed to be, and these lyrics that I have that came out are all about positive change, and trying to get that across to other people who need to make positive changes.”
About Every Time I Die ending, he added, “I have no ill-will about it, and from now on, it is just the present into the future for me. But I am aware of how it impacted people’s lives, and all I can say is that I’m with you and I’m still here. And I promise we’re on this next leg of the journey together.”
Many Eyes’ first tour can be opening for Thursday (taking part in War All the Time in full for its twentieth anniversary) and Rival Schools. All dates are listed beneath.
Many Eyes’ debut album can be launched through Jasta’s Perseverance Media Group, so keep tuned for extra on that. Read Buckley’s full interview at BrooklynVegan.
Thursday, Rival Schools, and Many Eyes 2024 tour dates
01/25 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
01/26 – Detroit, MI @ The Majestic
01/27 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
01/28 – McKees Rocks, PA @ Roxian Theatre
01/30 – Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall
01/31 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
02/01 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
02/02 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
02/03 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
02/05 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
02/06 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
02/08 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
02/09 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
02/10 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
02/11 – Mesa, AZ @ The Nile Theater
02/13 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk (Outside)
02/15 – Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits
02/16 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
02/17 – Orlando, FL @ The Beacham
02/18 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
02/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
02/21 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
02/22 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
02/23 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27
02/24 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
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