The Lees of Memory announced earlier this year they were back in the studio with veteran producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Stone Sour, Evanescence, Halestorm) once again. The group and Raskulinecz are no strangers to each other, in fact they go back over 20 years in friendship.
The Lees of Memory, which features John Davis and Brandon Fischer of Superdrag and Nick Slack of Slack on drums, have worked with Raskulinecz many times over the years. In 2000, they co-produced the Superdrag record “In The Valley Of Dying Stars“, which has become to many fans an essential Superdrag record.
In 2013, after Davis and Fischer had been making home demos for a new unnamed project, they had been sending Raskulinecz the demos to see what he thought of the songs. “One day he called me and said there’s enough songs here to make a record, and the we were off”, singer John Davis said when he called into The Local Buzz on Sunday night. The recordings from that session became the 2014 debut for The Lees of Memory called “Sisyphus Says”. The band played select dates to promote the album, even appearing at the 2015 SXSW festival in Austin, TX. Then in 2016 the band and Raskulinecz partnered up again for 2016’s “Unnecessary Evil“.
In early 2020 The Lees of Memory announced they were working with Raskulinecz once again for their next record titled “Moonshot”. Davis has said he is more excited about these songs then anything he has written in a long time and that this is the record he would like people to remember him by when he is gone.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Davis and Fischer had to finish up the guitar overdubs at their homes and they are still hoping for a late 2020 release date for “Moonshot”. Davis alluded to possible shows in late 2020 as well but nothing can be confirmed right now.
You can hear John Davis’ full interview with Andy Herrin on The Local Buzz HERE.
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