Connecticut Alt Metal Masters HE WAS A GOD Premiere Timely “Class Dismissed” Single at Outburn
New Album Muckraker Coming February 23rd
He Was A God– with a metal scene veteran line-up comprised of Chris Densky (Genitorturers, Deadstar Assembly), TonyPellino (Adva), Ray Zvovushe, Dan Perrone, and vocalist Benjamin Curns – is the Connecticut metal quintet behind a hard-hitting catalog of progressive arrangements, memorable hooks, and biting socio-political commentary. Today, they bring you their poignant new single “Class Dismissed” from the upcoming full album, Muckraker.
“Class Dismissed” Premieres Exclusively at Outburn – check it out here:
https://outburn.com/all-features/he-was-a-god-class-dismissed/
He Was A God explains “‘Class Dismissed’ is not a song about guns. It’s a song about kids. Kids who are senselessly and tragically killed by other kids. The abject horror of the American school shooting is magnified by a sensationalist media and a legislature so compromised by special interests that it seems as though nothing will ever change. The lobbyists, loonies, and lawmakers count on us to shut up, to forget, and to move on. We won’t. We are from Connecticut. Sandy Hook is our backyard. We won’t forget. And we won’t let you forget, either.”
He Was A God is:
Benjamin Curns – Vocals | Chris Densky – Drums/Percussion
Tony Pellino – Guitars/Keys/Backing Vocals/Programming
Dan Perrone – Bass | Ray Zvovushe – Lead Guitar
About HE WAS A GOD:
It’s a sauna of a Thursday night at Park City Music Hall in Black Rock, and Benjamin Curns isn’t having any of it. “How many of you are sick and tired?!” Megaphone angled at a swelling crowd, he already knows the answer: a whole lot of them. Show after show, night after night, always a whole lot of them. It’s covid isolation. It’s the planet in the flames of never-ending wars and police brutality. It’s the billionaire with his fingers in the till. A drug addled America goose-stepping her way toward tragedy. Under all these things, it’s the soil from which He Was A God took final shape in summer 2021.
Curns is the fifth and ultimate addition to the New Haven, Connecticut metal outfit–brainchild of guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist Tony Pellino. Chris Densky (drums), Dan Perrone (bass) and Ray Zvovushe (lead guitars) cap a lineup of musicians who grew up performing together on stages across the New York City tristate area. Under their new banner, He Was A God made its live debut in December 2021, commencing a run of performances in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts with metal veterans Life of Agony and (hed)P.E.
Through their live shows, wrote Karen Ponzio in The New Haven Independent, the band “unleashes a torrent of charismatic heavy metal with a message…as fun as it is furious.” Their EP, The Smile & The Scar (available on Apple Music, Spotify, and all other streaming platforms), recorded in fall 2021, received steady acclaim. From Headbangers Lifestyle: “The debut fires on all engines with ferocious riffing and tenacious melodies…fused with a downright genius timing for emotion and sheer agony.”
In 2023, following a run of live performances that included support for Goatwhore and Katatonia, the band enlisted renowned engineer Ryan Boesch (Melvins, Helmet, Norma Jean) to craft its debut album. The result is Muckraker, an 11-track canon of aggression, hope, rage and optimism. Dropping February 23, 2024, Muckraker swaps the personal tragedies of The Smile & The Scar for social and political grievances common to us all. Its punk contrarianism, heavy riffs, and harmonious progressions are wholly He Was A God
Check out the official He Was A God Muckraker album teaser:
https://youtube.com/shorts/CUZtUdEcuPI?si=aKVozEBkElJAHc_H
He Was A God – Muckraker album preorder link:
https://hewasagod.bandcamp.com/album/muckraker
Produced by Tony Pellino
Mixed and mastered by Ryan Boesch at Candor Recording, Tampa, FL
Engineered by Tony Pellino
Assistant drum engineering by Chris Densky
Artwork by Luca Solo Macello
