EXTINCTION A.D. have shared an official lyric video for their cover of Alice Cooper’s ‘Feed My Frankenstein.’ The digital single is also available now, with the band choosing the song as an October Halloween release within their ongoing ‘one single a month’ project.
Singer and guitarist Rick Jimenez explains that the choice grew out of years of conversations on the road. The band’s affection for Wayne’s World, which features the song, helped turn a recurring joke into a recording. In the announcement supplied by Secret Service Publicity, he recalls: ‘Anytime we’ve done that, “Feed My Frankenstein” would come up half as a gag. We all grew up with and love the movie Wayne’s World that this song appears in and the placement of it in that movie is rad.’
The arrangement gave EXTINCTION A.D. room to adapt the guitars and vocals while retaining the keyboards. ‘Adding a bit of our flavor to this song with the heaviness of the guitars and my spin vocally, while adding the keyboards in a faithful way was absolutely ridiculous and super fun,’ Jimenez says. ‘So much of what we do musically is deadly serious so it was enjoyable to do something purely lighthearted.’
The announcement places the monthly singles approach in its ninth month, with ‘Feed My Frankenstein’ joining eight other tracks: ‘Escape From L.I.,’ ‘They Live, They Die,’ ‘Center Of Zero,’ ‘Truth and Consequences,’ ‘Thaw,’ ‘Dead Men Running,’ ‘Blood Hoax’ and ‘Insomnia.’ ‘Truth and Consequences’ features Brian Audley of INCENDIARY. The cover adds a Halloween selection to that continuing run of releases.
EXTINCTION A.D. formed on Long Island, New York, emerging from THIS IS HELL. Active since 2013, the band combines thrash metal and hardcore, with the supplied background also identifying influences from ’90s extreme metal and New York hardcore. Their socially charged lyrics provide context for Jimenez’s description of the cover as an opportunity to make something lighthearted.
The band’s earlier releases include work on Good Fight and Unique Leader. The current lineup consists of Jimenez on vocals and guitar, Ian Cimaglia on lead guitar and vocals, Tom Wood on bass, and Mike Sciulara on drums.
