Ryan Lowry
Nothing‘s new track from their Dance On The Blacktop album is one of personal loss and tragedy.
“My Dad was a carpenter for his whole life – he built things and he built me,” frontman Domenic Palermo explains of The Carpenter’s Son. “He struggled with addiction and anger and for a long time, and his idea of a fix was to use religion in a very similar, violent way.”
“He left me peppered with too much reality for a young boy and subsequently also left me with an early disdain for Christianity. I often wondered how could I ever forgive a man whose sole purpose was to break everyone down around him.
“I lost him two or three years ago now. He was riding his bicycle in a storm and must have fell off, hit his head, went unconscious and slid into a ditch on the side of the road, face down, where he drowned just 200 feet from his house.”
Dance On The Blacktop is out on August 24th as the follow-up to 2016’s Tired Of Tomorrow.
