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Vanishing Life's debut single will be released on October 13
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Not content with fronting Quicksand, The Walter Schreifels Band and Rival Schools, New York hardcore legend Walter Schreifels (formerly of Gorilla Biscuits and Youth Of Today) has started a new band, Vanishing Life. And you can hear their first single below.
The band, something of a punk/alt.rock supergroup, features Schreifels (vocals/guitar), Rise Against’s Zach Blair (guitar) and the rhythm section from ….And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Autry Fulbright (bass) and Jamie Miller (drums).
Their first two track/four minute seven inch single People Running / Vanishing Life will be released on Collect Records, the label founded by No Devotion frontman Geoff Rickly and Texas Is The Reason guitarist Norman Brannon, on October 13.
Check out the ‘A’ side below.
You can pre-order the single from Collect Records here.
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A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.
