Nowadays it seems there is always a new "supergroup," members colliding with other members in bands to form a new band, to talk about. This time we introduce Terrible Things featuring Fred Mascherino formerly of Taking Back Sunday, Josh Eppard formerly of Coheed and Cambria, and Hot Rod Circuit guitarist Andy Jackson. The band released their new album last month, which is streaming on their MySpace.
The Punk Site says "The album’s concept is about the arson that ravaged Fred’s hometown of Coatesville, PA."
Terrible Things have made a concept album about a series of fires that haunted Fred’s former hometown, the depressed Pennsylvania steel-millburgh of Coatesville, PA, located 40-plus miles west of Philadelphia. A reign of arson terror scorched the more modest neighborhoods of Chester County from 2007-2009. “It’s not a political album,” says Fred. “I leave that to others. But growing up in Coatesville, the shock of these fires affected me in a way I was even surprised at.”
On the album, the band addresses such themes of fear and alienation in songs like “Revolution,” with the lyric – ‘This is not a revolution til we say it is…it seems we only want what we don’t have….’ Another song, the searing “Up At Night,” touches on the town’s fear and atrophy – ‘burning, burning bright, our eyes wide open; I bet you can see our town at night from space.’
