Hard Cold Fire

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Jaclyn Ward. "The Irish Charts – All there is to know". Irishcharts.ie. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009 . Retrieved 27 June 2016. On 21 July 2017, the band announced a double live acoustic album, Communion: Live at the Union Chapel, for release on 21 August 2017. [29] The album was recorded in London on 1 December 2016 during the "Wood & Wire" European tour.

Andy Cairns uses several Gibson SG and a Gibson Explorer. He has changed his effects pedals a few times. [44] As of November 2023, he used a small pedalboard powered by a T-Rex Fuel Tank Junior: Boss Chromatic Tuner → Electro-Harmonix POG Nano → Marshall SV-1 Supervibe → Boss Digital Delay. PIXELSURGEON | Interviews | Music | Therapy?". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009 . Retrieved 16 January 2010. On 16 January 2020, the band announced that they would be releasing a greatest hits compilation, titled Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session). [33] The album featured newly re-recorded versions of 12 Top 40 UK singles spanning the albums Nurse, Troublegum, Infernal Love, and Semi-Detached, and was recorded at the venerable Abbey Road Studios in November 2019.When we began to rehearse the songs, we realised there was an empathetic quality to them. We wanted to make something that was a bit more relatable, and less standoffish and claustrophobic - which we have a history of, and it stands in places - but we wanted to make something more approachable and open." The serrated, chugging riffage, churning low-end and propulsive rhythms that are hallmarks of the band’s sound are all present and correct, but met with a new-found sense of resolution and release, as most readily displayed on the one-two punch of their first single, ‘Joy’. As Therapy?’s fourth decade finally gets underway in earnest, sixteenth album ‘Hard Cold Fire’, written and pre-produced during an unprecedented time for music, is hefty, compact, and accessible, a distillation of everything that has made them what they are – hewn from County Antrim basalt, still possessed of their stoicism, but casting a renewed focus on catharsis and healing.

Cordova, Daniel (5 May 2023). "The Weekly Injection: New Releases From Dave Lombardo, Unearth & More Out Today 5/5". Metal Injection . Retrieved 27 May 2023. Northern Irish stalworth’s Therapy? are set to release their latest studio album “Hard Cold Fire” on the 5th of May and it is amazing, number sixteen in their illustrious catalogue and its fair to say that with no signs of letting up, this is up there with some of their best. Therapy? are currently signed to UK independent label Marshall Records. The band has released 14 full-length studio albums and has sold over two million albums worldwide. [3] History [ edit ] Early years (1989–1992) [ edit ] Much has been made over the years of the unusual question mark suffix to the band's name. In early interviews the band said that the name was "really deep" and intended to raise the question "do you need therapy?", but in a 1992 interview guitarist Andy Cairns admitted that it was a chance design when he was working on the band's first record sleeve. Working with Letraset transfers, Cairns misaligned the band's name, and used the "?" icon to fill the space to the right. "And then we thought, well maybe we can bluff our way through when people start reading into it." [38] Collaborations and other appearances [ edit ]W:O:A – Detail". 11 December 2015. Archived from the original on 11 December 2015 . Retrieved 12 September 2020. Critical Junctions: April 2008". Archived from the original on 10 July 2009 . Retrieved 24 February 2009. As Therapy?’sfourth decade finally gets underway in earnest, sixteenth album ‘ Hard Cold Fire’,written and pre-produced during an unprecedented time for music, is hefty, compact, and accessible, a distillation of everything that has made them what they are – hewn from County Antrim basalt, still possessed of their stoicism, but casting a renewed focus on catharsis and healing. Were Ozzy & Therapy? really in the studio together for "Iron Man"? on Wall of Mouths". Teethgrinder.com . Retrieved 27 June 2016.

Interview with Andy Cairns (Vocals, Guitars) (In Therapy?) Myglobalmind Online Magazine". Myglobalmind.com. 23 December 2015 . Retrieved 27 June 2016. Ozuna, Hernan (10 March 2023). "Therapy? announces new album Hard Cold Fire, drops "Joy" video". Chaoszine . Retrieved 27 May 2023.When I came home, I got depressed,” says Cairns. “I came home euphoric because the tour was such a success, came in the front door, and then after about a week I said to my wife, ‘I feel really flat, I don't know what's wrong’. She said to me, 'I haven't seen you sad, flat or down once in the last two years, and I think it's actually hitting you now', and I think that's maybe what happened. For long-time fans, this new offering will reward an attentive ear in terms of musical flourishes and Cairns’ trademark lyrical substance, but as a finished product, the band has set out to create something that stands alone, and ‘Hard Cold Fire’ achieves just that. But I knew that I wanted to keep playing the guitar, that was important, so I had a little routine, and I also knew I wanted to write new material, but I didn't want it to be about Covid, while I was living through it. I was very, very positive, and I know the other two lads were quite similar.” Few are going to pretend that Hard Cold Fire is the veteran trio’s best album – that accolade quite obviously belongs to 1994’s breakout classic Troublegum. But the band’s most important album since then? You bet. This time, a lot of the 'ire' is coming from having lived in England for the past 20 years and noticing that recently, post-Brexit, it has started to resemble the way it used to be when I grew up in the 70s in the north of Ireland. There's a similar kind of sense of hatred and division.

Pendulum, Therapy? & Dir en Grey for Knebworth 2010 | Official Sonisphere Festival UK – 2010 – Knebworth House, 30th July, 1st August". Archived from the original on 9 April 2010 . Retrieved 7 April 2010.UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts". Everyhit.com. 16 March 2000. Archived from the original on 2 July 2007 . Retrieved 27 June 2016. People I know who have wives or partners from the EU, they have said almost exactly the same thing to me - and I don't know where it's going to end. I sort of thought, post-Covid, that things might actually get better. But it's actually gone the other way. Enduring over three decades as the musical, cultural and social landscapes have shifted around them, the trio have forged and retained a powerful and lasting connection with a dedicated fan base around the world, doing so by putting their emphasis on the music, solidifying a hard-won reputation as forward-thinking writers and a fierce live proposition in the process.