Bobby Caughron 
Red Fang kicks off their 20th-anniversary celebrations with the March 14 release of Deep Cuts, an extensive 26-song collection of non-album tracks, covers, and previously unreleased singles.
Deep Cuts also includes several covers, such as the Wipers’ “Over The Edge,” and Tubeway Army’s “Listen To Sirens,” along with rare Red Fang originals like “Antidote” (from the mobile game, “Red Fang: Headbang!”) and “Wires (demo),” which makes its vinyl debut.
“Perhaps unremarkable to anyone else, it’s fucking amazing to me that we have made it TWENTY YEARS,” Aaron Beam shares. “Before we started jamming in John Sherman’s basement, I’d already been in 40 (maybe more!) bands, none of which lasted more than a year or two. Yet somehow in 2005, for the first time since probably 1987 I found myself without any band to play in. It turned out this was also true of John, David, and Bryan! So it was only natural that we’d start playing together.
All we ever wanted to do was make music that we knew our friends would be stoked to hear at a basement party. Our first show was in David’s basement, and no matter how big the stages were that we ended up playing, we always tried to bring as much of that basement party feeling as we could.
In that regard, this double album feels very much at home. It’s got a sampling of the weird variety of covers that reflect the different shit that inspire us. The computer drum-laden home demo for ‘Wires’ gives a little peek into the process that we pretty rarely but sometimes used for writing (more often than not, all the writing happened in the jam space). There’s of course a generous helping of rare B-sides and bonus tracks that might be hard to find even in today’s digital world. And there’s even a smattering of pretty atypical GarageBand demos that are some of my favorite things to listen to on this record. They could probably never make a regular Red Fang release, but really let you see what is going on in our heads when we’re not banging them!
Please enjoy this record that we are happy to have made for you.”
Deep Cuts track list:
- Antidote (from the “Red Fang: Headbang!” mobile game)
- The Shadows (from Scion AV Presents – Red Fang)
- Murder The Mountains (bonus track from Whales and Leeches Deluxe Version)
- Weird Poly *
- Hollow Light *
- Over The Edge (Wipers’ cover)
- Listen To The Sirens (Tubeway Army cover)
- Stereo Nucleosis (from the Adult Swim Singles Series)
- Black Hole (bonus track from Murder the Mountains Deluxe Digital Version)
- Through (No Talent cover)
- Champ Chugger **
- Ice Ice Baby *
- It’s Always There (bonus track from Whales and Leeches Deluxe Version)
- Black Water (bonus track from Whales and Leeches Deluxe Version)
- Pawn Everything (bonus track from Murder the Mountains Deluxe Digital Version)
- Wires (Demo)
- In 5 With Keys *
- Bad Places (Played on the band’s first U.S. tour, one of the first ever Red Fang songs)
- Forgot To Write *
- Endless Sea (from the Spelljams soundtrack)
- Suicide (Dust cover)
- OMG OMD *
- LSP (from “Wires” single)
- 50’s Tremors **
- AGB Fruit **
- Feeder (bonus track from Only Ghosts Deluxe Version)
*-Written/recorded during the pandemic lockdowns at the band’s practice space
**- Songs recorded at Aaron’s house “almost certainly while legally high on marijuana”
About Red Fang
Red Fang is Aaron Beam (bass, vocals, guitar, keyboards), Bryan Giles (guitar, vocals, synthesizers, happy accidents), John Sherman (drums) and David Sullivan (guitars). Over their 20-year career the Portland, Oregon-based band has released five studio albums: Red Fang (2009), Murder the Mountains (2011), Whales and Leeches (2013), Only Ghosts (2016), and Arrows (2021). Their music videos have captivated a generation of heavy music fans, racking up tens of millions of views. From the beer-can armor of “Prehistoric Dog” to Fred Armisen’s cameo in the zombie-themed “Blood Like Cream,” and the katana-gone-wrong chaos of Arrows,” Red Fang has mastered the art of the music video like no other band.
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