Surprise! See You Next Tuesday and Meth. Drop Split LP ‘Asymmetrics’

This will be just, just so much noise. In a good way, though. Midwest grindcore band See You Next Tuesday has teamed up with the heavily experimental band meth. on a surprise split LP called Asymmetrics. It’s a concept LP in a sense, and the bands had some pretty interesting criteria to stick to.

See You Next Tuesday explained how they approached the idea:

Right around the completion of our album Relapses, Jimmy (Watson, drums) & Drew (Slavik, guitar) had the idea of doing a collaborative split, which ultimately became an amalgamation of musical chairs and a social experiment. After several months of hurdles preventing anything from really taking off, we finally sorted out the exact details of the project and collaborated with our colleagues and friends in Meth.

Our guidelines were as follows:

Each band would write & record three songs, & then share only the drum tracks with the other band. Each band would then write new music and lyrics over the exchanged tracks. Neither band would hear anything from the other until everything was complete to ensure one couldn’t influence the other. In the end, we were astonished at what we had all accomplished. We’re thrilled & proud to present, ASYMMETRICS.

Seb Alvarez of meth. added:

I was very excited when Drew tossed this idea at me. I’ve always been one to want to try new things and push new ideas and I really loved the concept of us blindly writing over the same base track and seeing how our ideas aligned or separated. It also forced us to write outside of our comfort zone a bit, reverting back to a style we hadn’t really messed around with since our first EP. Splits should always be avenues to explore ideas you don’t normally get to while also being a platform to collaborate with the band you’re sharing the release with.

You can preorder the quite pretty-looking vinyl here via Deathwish and stream it on all streaming platforms.