We were uncomfortable with it from the beginning because we felt like we were, I guess our heart was in a different place than all of those other bands that we were being labeled that.
"Dustin Michael Kensrue" (born November 18, 1980) is a vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist in the Orange County, California post-hardcore/experimental rock quartet Thrice, as well as a solo artist.
He has a tattoo of Proverbs 9:10a ("The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom") written in Hebrew on his left forearm. Many of his lyrics are also Biblically based, an example being the pre-chorus in Vheissu's song, "For Miles" ("There is no greater love, than that one shed his blood for his friends"). This example of lyrics are spread throughout his works, both in Thrice and on his solo works.
Dustin designed the album artwork for all parts of The Alchemy Index (disambiguation)/The Alchemy Index - Thrice's fifth studio recording.
Dustin also added vocals in the song "The Contender" on the album "Pierce the Empire With a Sound" by experimental act The Out Circuit.
Dustin has been working on a new project called The Modern Post and released the Grace Alone EP in 2012
More Dustin Kensrue on Wikipedia.I'm hoping to play some of the songs that we didn't get to play on the headline tour we just did. I think we really want to play all the songs on the new record. It's hard to choose between them, but I think we'll pick a couple that we haven't played live so far.
Writing this record was the first time we felt really at home in a long time.
In the end, we realized we had to go with our gut.
We've done a couple dates with them in the past, and we've always been big fans. We [wanted] to do something a little different for the show. I was just thinking he'd do some harmonies and stuff, and he was like, 'I've got some stuff I wanna sing.' So he kind of went off and sang some melodies that he had made up, and they were really cool.
It feels like there was a really, in some ways, kind of fashiony, contrived feeling that surrounds that scene. We always kind of were going around saying we're writing the music we wanted to be writing and somehow found ourselves in the middle of that. There were very few bands that were labeled that way that we really respected musically or were good friends with.
Overall, I think 'Red Sky' is dealing with the issues that [people] suffer, but in the end things are redeemed and there's a resolution. It's got this image of a storm that comes and in the end this unexplained supernatural change [happens] and everything kind of comes right through these dark times. It's about hope in general.
This next song, hopefully, will act as a reminder for you guys.
We so wanted to step out to something different that we made it clear to each other there were no boundaries for that. We were really just writing very uninhibitedly, but also not at all paying any attention to any context of who we were as a band, which I think was really good.
Copyright © 2024 Electric Goat Media. All Rights Reserved.