COMMANDO was created as an act of revisionist history: how would the world have been different if that specific cultural moment in the late 1990s that birthed nü metal and its then-ubiquitous musical toolbox had been used to dismantle homophobia, misogyny, racism/white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy rather than reinforce them? The self-titled debut album (Mar.4th) uses tools from the last three decades of rock, metal, punk, hardcore, hip hop, and popular music, delivered in five suites with each quarterbacked by a different vocalist. The Hotel Essex single is available now on all digital platforms...check out the vid below, feat. vocals by activist/artist Juba Kalamka! (all images by Devlin Shand)

Andy Meyerson (Drums, Percussion):

“There was an intentionality that we set about with this project. There are obvious optics, dynamics and complications attendant to three white cismen–two of them straight–collaborating and supporting a Black and Brown and queer and Trans led project. The question for the three of us as a rhythm section who met at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and have devoted ourselves to the lifelong quasi-academic study of musical performance was: can we be of use to the folks whose voices, stories, perspectives, and creativity deserve the biggest spotlights and the most amplification?”

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