In a latest interview with Steel Hammer, Kyuss drummer and founder Brant Bjork revealed he noticed Metallica as the kind of band he didn’t need Kyuss to turn into.
“Our man on the label would all the time say, ‘You guys would be the subsequent Metallica,’ and that bummed me out,” Bjork defined. “I wished to be this Kyuss!”
“I felt like we f*cking rocked and had hit the height of our chemistry on the time, and Metallica had been super-cool guys and actually supportive, however seeing all of it on that scale, it was identical to, ‘This isn’t for me.’ If that’s the epitome of success in a rock band, it simply appeared unrewarding,” he added.
“They acquired up and performed the identical issues each night time, mentioned the identical issues… I may inform it’d turn into a touring circus, a machine. I used to be nonetheless 20 years previous, and extra interested in what we had been doing by way of improvising onstage and being unfastened. I wished Kyuss to go extra in that path.”
Although Kyuss disbanded in 1995, Bjork admitted in a 2021 interview with TotalRock’s Hobo On The Radio present that he’s open to a reunion, and even reopened communication with former bandmate and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme.
“I used to be actually bummed by the best way that Kyuss broke up in ’95 – I didn’t need it to finish that means,” he mentioned.
“Had we recognized find out how to preserve a band collectively, we may have simply had that band shifting all alongside and taking breaks now and again to pursue different issues. However, yeah, it has this type of cease and rebirth and reinvention… I share his frustration. However there’s all the time a method to do it, and it simply takes communication,” he added.
