Gürschach

Gürschach was originally formed in the San Francisco Bay Area by X, Leyland Reid, and Daniel Justo- Sanchez in 2011. They started out performing songs that they mainly had written white they were still in High School. In 2014 the band welcomed Scotty McRib into their fold and the current lineup was completed. The following year, in 2015, the band released their first foray into the music business as Gürschach with an independently released EP titled Beautiful Nightmares. This Emerging Band Gürschach EP would be the first and last time that the band would Release Improved present a straightforward Thrash Metal record. They have decided to move on with

Reimagined Cover of a sound that was completely all their own and abandon a

Metallica’s “St. Anger” straight Thrash sound. By 2016 the band had released their first music By Tank youtu.be/urRruX2PrY0. The single is video for the song “Life In The Sewers.” Leave it up to a band from the San available now on Spotify This was followed constant touring in Francisco Bay Area to get the Metallica 2016 and 2017. In December of 2017 Army a bit upset. The bay area experi- So far the video has received over the band decided to release their first mental metal quartet of Gürschach 40,000 views receiving a bit of contro- full-length debut album, Dark Matter. (pronounced Ger-shock) has just released versy over it, but why not… what a great This album was also filled with non-stop a new video of a cover tune. For that idea!!! Metallica fans are all trying to touring in 2018 and 2019. By 2019 the one, they selected a song and a band that get a view of this cool video to express band had reached a permanent decision would no doubt create controversy. their likes or dislikes over the revamping on their status and re-named their tour They selected the revered Metallica of “St. Anger.” Gürschach has even the Kiss Our Jobs Goodbye Tour. song, “St. Anger” as their first single and responded with a 20-minute video to let video. On top of that they chose to make the people know how they feel about all Now the band has taken one step the song their own, so it is a bit different the criticism. On the video they both forward and released the new single, “St. from the Metallica version. read the criticisms and express their Anger” this year, and plan on releasing views to the response. Really, this is a more new material soon. Watch the video “‘St. Anger’ was actually the first genius move for the guys in Gürschach. at https://youtu.be/urRruX2PrY0. The Metallica song I heard, and it was the So far it appears to be a somewhat fifty/ single is available now on Spotify whole reason I got into the band,” says fifty response for what they have done. guitarist/vocalist X. “It’s still one of my Check out the “Hate Comments” video Gürschach online: favorite songs by the band, but I couldn’t at https://youtu.be/5lF3K7OtCmg. deny the issues that many people have http://www.gurschach.com with it. I just wanted to address all the “We knew that when we covered http://www.facebook.com/ common complaints with the album in the song that there would be hate, gurschach order to show people that the song has because a lot of Metallica fans are http://www.instagram.com/ more potential than most people think.” extremely dedicated and would reject our gurschach version, whether they liked the original http://www.twitter.com/gurschach Watch the video at https:// or not,” says vocalist/bassist Scotty http://gurschach.bandcamp.com December 2020 • Rock and Blues International 81