Nine songs. Nine men. Each one carrying something he'll never say out loud. A veteran sitting in his truck while his unit is still overseas. A coal miner who walked out of therapy because he wanted a fix, not a conversation. A father who sits ten minutes in the driveway before h
9 tracks • Album · Min $7.00 · scheduled
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“That’s What Men Do This album started with a detour. I had just wrapped The Spaghetti Incident: Six Bullets West, and all that dust and gunsmoke left a western, country feel in my head that I couldn’t shake. It sent me back to a handful of country songs I’d written about two years ago. They’d been sitting untouched in my Suno library ever since, generated on v3.5 and more or less forgotten. Listening back, the bones were good, but the songs weren’t finished. So I tore them down. I reworked the lyrics line by line, and somewhere in that process the country sound stopped fitting. These stories needed more weight, so I pulled them into alternative metal: heavier guitars, harder edges, more room for the anger and the ache. One thing from the country roots stayed. I wanted violin on every track. It’s the thread that ties the record together, the one voice that can sound like a front porch and a funeral in the same song. The theme came together the same way. Each track is a different man and a different thing men go through, the kind of stuff that mostly gets carried quietly. They’re not heroes or villains, just nine men and what each of them carries. Nine tracks. Two years in the drawer. This is That’s What Men Do.”