Revolver Magazine is currently streaming “On The Floor,” the first official taste of Philip H. Anselmo’s EN MINOR.
A project inadvertently in the making since Anselmo’s earliest days as a child in the French Quarter, EN MINOR features Stephen Taylor (Superjoint, Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals, Woven Hand, 16 Horse Power), Kevin Bond (Superjoint, Christ Inversion, Artimus Pyledriver et al), Jimmy Bower (Eyehategod, Down, Superjoint), Calvin and Joiner Dover (The Dover Brothers), and Steve Bernal (former first cellist in the Temple Symphony Orchestra). An experimental and eclectic musical endeavor that finds Anselmo exploring a softer, graver vocal style, EN MINOR is an honest and deliberate change of pace delivering brooding tales of pain, regret, and sorrow.
“On The Floor” comes by way of the band’s self-titled seven-inch, set to drop Friday August 2nd via Housecore Records. Writes Revolver of the hymn, “It’s clearly a departure from the heavy musical styles that Anselmo has always been associated with, but he points to moments in his history where he’s been able to explore dark, internalized feelings at less than full volume: Down’s deeply haunted, understated ballad ‘Jail,’ and Pantera’s ‘Suicide Note Pt. 1,’ among several others. With EN MINOR, he’s embracing a gravely vocal style of defiance and regret, singing songs from a lifetime of experience and hard lessons learned in the outlaw country tradition of Merle Haggard.”
For physical preorders, visit the newly launched Housecore store at THIS LOCATION. For digital orders, visit the EN MINOR Bandcamp page HERE.
EN MINOR will appear at this year’s edition of Psycho Las Vegas set to take place August 16th-18th at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with additional appearances to be announced in the coming weeks. Get tickets here.
