Genghis Tron

By Tank Genghis Tron has re-emerged back into the scene as they have announced a return to the studio to record their next album. This four-piece experimental metal band has been hiatus for quite a long time now. The last time we really heard from them was when they released their last fulllength album, Board Up The House back in 2008. After two years of touring behind the album, they kind of disappeared. Now the band is back and ready for action with a new lineup of members. Former lead vocalist Mookie Singerman has left the group and the founding members Hamilton Jordan (guitar, bass, drum programming) and Michael Sochynsky (keyboards, drum programming) will be joined by new vocalist Tony Wolski and Nick Yacyshun from the band Sumac/Baptists. Fans of the band have been waiting for news like this for a long time. The new album will be the band’s third full-length album. Previous albums included Dead Mountain Mouth in 2006 and Board Up The House in 2008. Genghis Tron has already entered GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts with producer Kurt Ballou. The band is really excited with the prospects of recording a new album. As Michael Sochynsky tells us, “We said it was just a hiatus and we meant it! It’s been incredible writing music again and hearing everything come together in the studio. This is the album we’ve always wanted to write. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on.” Kicking things off, Genghis Tron have reissued their first two full-length albums Board Up The House and Dead Mountain Mouth on vinyl for the first time in over 10 years. Genghis Tron was formed in Poughkeepsie, New York and latter moved to Brooklyn, New York before continuing on to San Francisco, California. Hamilton Jordan and Michael Sochynsky met in college and GENGHIS TRON RETURN quickly got together to create a style of music that they thought was lacking at the time. Their combination of metal, grind, and FROM HIATUS & ENTER electronic music definitely set them apart from the rest of the pack. Both of the guys would spend their time doing the entire drum STUDIO; NEW ALBUM programming before adding layers and layers of guitars and synthesizers to the mix. “I was 19 when we started writing COMING 2021 songs,” Jordan, now 36, recalls. “Michael Dead Mountain Mouth with Kurt Ballou, who House followed in 2008 and featured was 20. The first thing we tried to do was also has returned to produce their new Dillinger Escape Plan lead singer, Greg cram together all our influences—shredding comeback album. “We developed the idea of Puciato. In some ways it was guitars and blastbeats, and then out of writing records that worked on multiple groundbreaking. Reviews of praise for the nowhere comes this really pleasant sounding levels,” Sochynsky explains. “We wanted to album started coming in. The New York Times Boards Of Canada or Autechre moment. It make a brutal, heavy record—something you named it as a “Critic’s Choice.” The seemed like a great idea at the time.” could really lose your shit to—but we also magazine Rock Sound called it their “Album Their first release was the 2005 EP, wanted to make a record that was incredibly Of The Year.” They were even requested by Cloak of Love. It was produced by überlayered and detailed at the same time. the booking agents for Coachella to perform guitarist Colin Marston of Krallice and Something you could listen to on headphones there in 2009, which made them one of the hit Behold … The Arctopus. The sound was and hear stuff you didn’t notice the first sets of the desert festival. Then the following definitely all their own as they blended couple of times.” year, the band went on an extended hiatus. together electronica, grind, and a number of This was followed by non-stop touring Now the band is back and we can only other genres together to create something with bands such as Arctopus, Converge, guess what’s in store for them. Could this be completely unheard of. Canada’s Exclaim! Kylesa, Gaza, The Faint, Baroness, and even a return to their earlier sound? Could this be said, “Adored or reviled, Genghis Tron are The Dillinger Escape Plan. They were something completely different? We won’t now nearing the head of the line in pushing definitely getting known on the touring know till next year. One thing is for sure…. the extreme music envelope.” circuit. Producer Kurt Ballou is back, so something The band made their album debut, Their follow up album, Board Up The good is definitely going to happen! 80 Rock and Blues International • September 2020