![]() ![]() The combination of us, together, doing something different really made for a unique album in a cool, fresh way. Everyone uses the words 'dark' and 'doom' and all that, but really it was different for Tracii and for me. I’m sitting there in Michaels listening to the song on my phone. I was in Michaels with my wife Lisa, and I get this beep on my phone and I open it up. Michael, do you remember Tracii’s pitch? Were you immediately down, or did you have reservations about tackling a “doom” record? I dug them when they went more pop and radio-friendly, too.” GUNS: “And Def Leppard, right? That early stuff…” I started looking into bands like Maiden… then Dio and Ozzy Osbourne and Randy, and it blossomed from there.” Diamonds and Rust blew me away… That changed everything for me. MICHAEL SWEET: “Oh yeah… When I first heard Judas Priest I was a sophomore in high school and my sister was driving me to school… I heard Unleashed in the East. Michael, were you also a big New Wave of British Heavy Metal fan growing up? We just really wanted to do something together, and this was the outlet.” We had known each other a little over a year at this point. “And when I got married, my wife, who’s Danish, listens to black metal… I was like, 'Damn, those riffs… I get it! This is good, this is like Randy Rhoads times 10.' Modal guitar parts within metal, which is very rare… Michael and I had recently met. But I’m really into that whole New Wave of British Heavy Metal… So I just started writing this stuff. Guns to a point… It can’t get any heavier than Ozzy Osbourne. I like stuff that’s either really sad or brutally in your face. TRACII GUNS: “I never wanted to make a boring instrumental record. Tracii, what inspired you to start Sunbomb, and what does it allow you to express that you can’t in L.A. “I was telling my wife, ‘Come here and listen to this!’ To me Sunbomb is already a 100-percent success… I’m getting better as I’m get-ting older! I’m just telling myself that right now in front of you all… ” “Putting the music together is one thing, but getting vocal tracks from Michael… I was losing my mind!” exclaims Guns. “I sound nothing like them,” Sweet qualifies, “but I tried to draw a little bit more from them on this album.” Guns handled all guitar duties, allowing Sweet to solely focus on vocals and channel some of his favorite frontmen, including Ronnie James Dio and Rob Halford. Guns’ bassist Johnny Martin on They Fought). Sweet proves a capable accomplice throughout Evil and Divine, which also features performances by drummer Adam Hamilton and bassist Mitch Davis (with a guest shot by L.A. Besides the '90s Norwegian extremity of Life, the hard-charging 11-song album unfolds like a love letter to the favorite acts of Guns’ youth: from Sabbathian doom ( Take Me Away, Better End) and Led Zeppelin blues-meets-crossover thrash ( Born to Win) to Randy Rhoads-esque dynamics ( No Tomorrows) and beyond. ![]() That track – a ripping cut called Life that features Guns unleashing a swarm of black-metal-style tremolo picking – kicked off a wicked collaboration that ultimately resulted in Sunbomb’s full-length debut, Evil and Divine. That was the very innocent beginning of us working together.” He sent one of the unfinished tunes to his new friend Sweet to get his thoughts. Guns had been working on songs initially intended for a solo outing for his label, Frontiers Records. The music for Sunbomb first started to take shape a few years ago.
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