Speaking to the State of Affairs…HE WAS A GOD Brings Awareness to How Divided We Are as a Nation

Metal Injection writes “‘Divide, divide, divide’ …’The Great Divide’ confronts the consequences of that deadly strategy.” 

“White against black, red against blue, straight against queer, nativist against immigrant, us against us. The state of civil discourse is perpetually and deliberately corrupted by The Great American Power Guide: divide, divide, divide! ‘The Great Divide’ confronts the consequences of that deadly strategy… Brownshirts descending on Charlottesville, noose-wielding mobs busting down Capitol doors, police officers choking life from citizens, horror-show vignettes—sanctioned by a red capped snake oil salesman played on a televised loop. All day, every day…These are dangerous, exhausting times. No one talks to anybody anymore. And worse, no one listens.” – HE WAS A GOD

Check out “The Great Divide” Exclusively at Metal Injection: 

https://metalinjection.net/video/he-was-a-god-isnt-thrilled-with-how-things-are-going-on-new-single-the-great-divide

New Album Muckraker Drops February 23rd

He Was A God – Muckraker album preorder link:

https://hewasagod.bandcamp.com/album/muckraker

 

He Was A God is:

Benjamin Curns – Vocals | Chris Densky – Drums/Percussion

Tony Pellino – Guitars/Keys/Backing Vocals/Programming

Dan Perrone – Bass | Ray Zvovushe – Lead Guitar

About HE WAS A GOD:

It’s a sauna of a Thursday night at Park City Music Hall in Black Rock, and Benjamin Curns isn’t having any of it. “How many of you are sick and tired?!” Megaphone angled at a swelling crowd, he already knows the answer: a whole lot of them. Show after show, night after night, always a whole lot of them. It’s covid isolation. It’s the planet in the flames of never-ending wars and police brutality. It’s the billionaire with his fingers in the till. A drug addled America goose-stepping her way toward tragedy. Under all these things, it’s the soil from which He Was A God took final shape in summer 2021.

Curns is the fifth and ultimate addition to the New Haven, Connecticut metal outfit–brainchild of guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist Tony Pellino. Chris Densky (drums), Dan Perrone (bass) and Ray Zvovushe (lead guitars) cap a lineup of musicians who grew up performing together on stages across the New York City tristate area. Under their new banner, He Was A God made its live debut in December 2021, commencing a run of performances in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts with metal veterans Life of Agony and (hed)P.E.

Through their live shows, wrote Karen Ponzio in The New Haven Independent, the band  “unleashes a torrent of charismatic heavy metal with a message…as fun as it is furious.” Their EP, The Smile & The Scar (available on Apple Music, Spotify, and all other streaming platforms), recorded in fall 2021, received steady acclaim. From Headbangers Lifestyle: “The debut fires on all engines with ferocious riffing and tenacious melodies…fused with a downright genius timing for emotion and sheer agony.”

In 2023, following a run of live performances that included support for Goatwhore and Katatonia, the band enlisted renowned engineer Ryan Boesch (Melvins, Helmet, Norma Jean) to craft its debut album. The result is Muckraker, an 11-track canon of aggression, hope, rage and optimism. Dropping February 23, 2024, Muckraker swaps the personal tragedies of The Smile & The Scar for social and political grievances common to us all. Its punk contrarianism, heavy riffs, and harmonious progressions are wholly He Was A God.

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First Single “Class Dismissed” Premiered Exclusively at Outburn January 8th:

https://outburn.com/all-features/he-was-a-god-class-dismissed/