Obituary Drummer Provides Andrew W.Ok. Credit score for Sparking 2003 Reunion

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Obituary‘s second act has now lasted longer than their preliminary run, and drummer Donald Tardy says that it won’t have occurred with no little nudge from his onetime bandmate Andrew W.Ok. Whereas talking with Chaoszine (as seen within the video under), Tardy revealed how his stint with the white T-shirt sporting rocker after Obituary’s breakup in 1997 finally helped carry the band again collectively in 2003.

Tardy recalled (as transcribed by Metallic Injection), “I used to be on Ozzfest with Andrew, and we have been enjoying in Florida and once more, we have been by no means not pals Obituary [even though we went on hiatus]. We nonetheless have been hanging out watching sports activities collectively, you already know, watching NASCAR, soccer, partying – however we simply took a break from it. It was Andrew on the Ozzfest the place, despite the fact that Andrew’s set was just for half-hour, and despite the fact that we solely had a 30 minute set he mentioned, ‘Do you assume you assume you guys would need to come out and do like, two Obituary songs?'”

At that time, the band had been break up for six years, however simply having the ability to spherical up all the fellows for this particular Ozzfest look was all it took to stoke the hearth once more.

“That actually sparked the flame again into how a lot my brother [John Tardy] and Trevor [Peres] realized how a lot [fun] it’s to be touring. So you’ll be able to half thank Andrew for being such a fan of Obituary that he invited us to do two songs on his stage with him.”

Since that 2003 reunion, the band has gone on to document and launch 5 extra studio albums, the newest being 2017’s self-titled set.

Whereas every of the band members used their time through the break up otherwise, Tardy did not stray too removed from music and it was a name from W.Ok. that piqued his curiosity to play in a band once more. With Tardy’s assist, W.Ok. put collectively his band and the drummer recollects how nice it was to construct one thing from the bottom up and watch it take off.

“I watched it go from an idea to actually 1,000 miles an hour – a gold document, enjoying Ozzfest… I carried out on Saturday Evening Reside with Andrew, I performed on Conan O’Brien, I performed you already know, all these late night time exhibits. I imply, it is humorous. I went from Obituary and taking a hiatus to Andrew, from zero to a thousand miles an hour. Subsequent factor you already know, we’re on learjets and uh Ozzfests and Saturday Evening Reside. We really opened for Aerosmith in America for 11 exhibits. It was simply unbelievable. It was superior.”

He concludes, “When the [Obituary] sort of went house and needed to get away from the scene, I dove proper into it and and was doing among the greatest exhibits I’ve ever even thought of doing.”

Obituary have been initially collectively from 1984-1997. The band has reportedly been engaged on new materials with the intent of a brand new document arriving later this yr.