Mower announces split CD with jazz alter ego Slower
San Diego, California's Mower has entered a Los Angeles studio with producer Eddie Wohl (Anthrax, Ill Nino, 36 Crazyfists, Dry Kill Logic) to begin recording a new album. The CD will be a split effort with six brand new Mower songs and six songs from the group's jazz alter ego Slower. Slower is comprised of the Mower bandmembers performing jazz and lounge versions of Mower songs."Mower has always worked from a punk rock mindset and that involves disregarding what's trendy and concentrating on being creative," says Mower frontman Brian Sheerin. "Slower was born after trying something different in a song on the last CD. The songs have the same content as Mower and putting that into a mellower vibe is one of the most subversive things we could do at this point. Splitting the new CD between Mower and Slower is a great way to give our fans something different and involve some new listeners at the same time. Doing it this way also allowed us to focus on keeping the Mower songs heavy, and our longtime fans will like that."
The album is the follow-up to Mower's critically acclaimed sophomore effort, "Not For You", which was produced by ex-Snot/Invitro guitarist Mikey Doling. That CD landed them tours supporting (Hed)P.E. and Diecast, while the album's lead single, "Road Rage", quickly became one of the most requested tracks at Sirius Satellite Radio's Hard Attack.
Mower was recently interviewed by Metal Sanaz for SyncLive.com at the recording studio where they are currently recording the follow-up to "Not For You". The interview can be viewed below.