{"id":76276,"date":"2019-08-24T03:47:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T08:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=76276"},"modified":"2019-08-24T03:47:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T08:47:49","slug":"rex-brown-issues-new-solo-album-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=76276","title":{"rendered":"REX BROWN &#8211; Issues New Solo Album Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rexrockerbass-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76277\" width=\"299\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rexrockerbass-1.jpg 633w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rexrockerbass-1-600x568.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rexrockerbass-1-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Former <strong>PANTERA\/DOWN<\/strong> bassist <strong>Rex Brown<\/strong> has spoken with <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/rex-brown-interview-solo-album-2019\/\">Loudwire<\/a> about his forthcoming sophomore solo album. <strong>Brown<\/strong> has been putting the finishing touches on that effort for a late 2019\/early 2020 release and was upfront in saying \u201cthere\u2019s not a ballad on this fucking record.\u201d Instead he described the album as \u201ca stoned-out groove record,\u201d sharing the following of the sessions for it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\u201cWe smoked lots of hash making this album, I\u2019ll just put it that way. And I\u2019m not gonna make the same record twice: It\u2019s got its rockers, it\u2019s got that heavy blues tinge. It\u2019s got some upbeat anthems that I brought in at the last minute, some I even had tucked away for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">THC isn\u2019t the only thing that helped shape the record though, as the grief of his former <strong>Pantera<\/strong> bandmate <strong>Vinnie Paul Abbott<\/strong> dying last year also worked its way into the songs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\u201cThis record is really introspective, but in the sense that it just came naturally. I think that anytime somebody close to you dies \u2014 even though <strong>Vinnie<\/strong> and I weren\u2019t really close at the end \u2014 you have to go back and peel the onion, just go through the layers of what life really means. The first four or five tracks that we did were really just \u2014 man, I swear to God, you hear about this stuff happening and it\u2019s never happened to me before \u2014 but where the pen just starts going to the paper, and it just starts writing itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PANTERA\/DOWN bassist Rex Brown has spoken with Loudwire about his forthcoming sophomore solo album&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76278,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76276\/revisions\/76278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}