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As guitarist Michael Crain finished cancer treatments, he reconvened his band, thrash-metal supergroup Dead Cross, to hit the studio for the raw and cathartic II. “Making this record is what helped me heal.”
The Melbourne-based soul quartet used layered bass tracks, a pointy headstock guitar, old solid-state amps, samples, countermelodies, strange syncopations, and a Brazilian composer to create the complex and colorful Mood Valiant.
Despite parting ways with founding drummer (and brother) Chris Adler and the uncertain fate of a summer tour with Megadeth, the trio discusses their eponymous 10th LP’s triumphant declaration of identity.