{"id":483973,"date":"2019-03-28T09:25:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=811781"},"modified":"2019-03-28T09:25:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:25:22","slug":"see-ice-t-zakk-wylde-team-up-on-intense-hurricane-themed-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-ice-t-zakk-wylde-team-up-on-intense-hurricane-themed-song\/","title":{"rendered":"See Ice-T, Zakk Wylde Team Up on Intense Hurricane-Themed Song"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guitarist Michael Ciravolo assembled an all-star cast for his moody, hard-hitting 2018 album Finding Beauty in Chaos.<\/em> Ministry\u2019s Al Jourgensen, Cheap Trick\u2019s Robin Zander, Van Halen\u2019s Michael Anthony, the Cure\u2019s Simon Gallup and many others contributed to the LP, released under the project name Beauty in Chaos. Now, Ciravolo \u2014 who has worked with bands including Human Drama and Gene Loves Jezebel and also serves as president of Schecter Guitar Research \u2014 and producer Michael Rozon are prepping Beauty Re-Envisioned,<\/em> a companion release featuring remixes and alternate versions of the album\u2019s tracks.<\/p>\n

Today, they\u2019re unveiling a video for \u201cUn-Natural Disaster (Collide Mix),\u201d a remix of an intense Finding Beauty in Chaos<\/em> track that features contributions from Ice-T<\/a>, King\u2019s X\u2019s Doug Pinnick and Offspring drummer Pete Parada. Starting out with a heavy guitar riiff from Ciravolo, the original version centers on Pinnick\u2019s account of the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey. The King\u2019s X frontman\u2019s poignant vocals and booming bass add gravity to the track, which culminates in his howls of \u201cI can\u2019t believe city\u2019s underwater\u201d on the song\u2019s chorus.<\/p>\n

An ominous Ice-T rap (\u201cHell from the heavens as the body count grows\/Watch news at 11 for the final death toll\u201d) rounds out the powerhouse song.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis song really hits close to home as I was born and raised in New Orleans,\u201d Ciravolo said of \u201cUn-Natural Disaster\u201d in a statement. \u201cI lived in Los Angeles when Katrina hit, but watched as friends and family lost everything. My elderly aunt was evacuated as the city\u2019s services shut down, and sadly she did not survive the move to Alabama. She, along with at least 1,200 others, lost their lives as a result of this devastating hurricane.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song\u2019s new remix, by Chicago producer Statik, adds sleek electronic drums, and augments the vocals and guitars with tastefully glitchy effects. A new guitar solo by Zakk Wylde<\/a> \u2014 full of dramatic string bends and speedy, head-spinning shred \u2014 replaces Ciravolo\u2019s squalling lead on the original.<\/p>\n

Directed by Vicente Cordero for Industrialism Films, the video shows Ciravolo and Pinnick performing under a torrent of rain, as Parada plays on a TV screen. Ice-T and Wylde each turn up separately to deliver their parts. Simulated news footage, bearing the tag line \u201cHurricanes Slam Gulf Coast,\u201d adds to the clip\u2019s gritty feel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe remix of this track is even heavier, more brutal and danceable than the album version, which I love!<\/em>\u201d Pinnick says in a statement. \u201cI know Michael was from New Orleans \u2026 and I lived in Houston for quite a while. <\/span>I witnessed what Hurricane Harvey did there and saw the good and bad in humanity. <\/span> I think the video translates the lyrics and what was in my head and heart extremely well. Loved that Ice put his punctuation mark on it as only he can!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis song is striking in its imagery,\u201d Parada adds. \u201cThe destruction and devastation left behind from these storms is brought to life in the music. I was completely honored to play on a track with both Michael, Dug, and Ice. Then to have Zakk Wylde on the remix really elevated it to a whole new level.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Ciravolo explains, he was thrilled with the contributions his guests made not just to this song but to the Beauty in Chaos project as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese artists, with platinum records hanging on their walls, treated me as their musical equal,\u201d he tells Rolling Stone<\/em> in a statement. \u201cNot one artist phoned in a single note, and every single artist poured a lot of heart and soul into the making of this album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beauty Re-Envisioned<\/em> is out June 21st.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guitarist Michael Ciravolo assembled an all-star cast for his moody, hard-hitting 2018 album Finding Beauty in Chaos. Ministry\u2019s Al Jourgensen, Cheap Trick\u2019s Robin Zander, Van Halen\u2019s Michael Anthony, the Cure\u2019s Simon Gallup and many others contributed to the LP, released under the project name Beauty in Chaos. Now, Ciravolo \u2014 who has worked with bands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 04:35:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}