Incubus
By: Don Sill
 We are living in intense times where the threat of terror lurks conveniently around every holiday corner. The “war on terror”, the “war on drugs”, war, war and more war; it looms over us.
We are a world consumed with uncertainty as shady leaders on all points of the globe have an agenda and the media as well as big business are all banking it by bending our brains into all different shapes and sizes only to confuse and outrage us even more.
Times like these cries out for a voice; a voice of reason. Creative movements come from the face of adversity and Incubus, with songs like ‘Megalomaniac’, ‘Sick Sad Little World’, ‘Made For TV Movie’, and ‘Talk Show On Mute’, tackle everything from a crumbling society to the evils of man.
Incubus, from California, has matured into a socially aware rock outfit that is speaking out for a generation as well as a pivotal era in our history. A Crow Left Of The Murder is more then a hard rocking album; it is a sign of the times.
Blistering.com spoke with Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger about the tribulations that plague our world and his perspective on it.
Blistering.com: Your last album, A Crow Left Of The Murder has been kicking ass. It’s seems a bit more edgy and angry this time around. Is that fair to say?
I guess maybe, in certain respects, yeah. I think that the album is a lot more up-tempo, I guess, but I think it’s just a picture of where we were in time when we wrote all those songs for it. We didn’t set out to make a faster record or a harder record or anything like that at all, we just sit down and write music and whatever comes out of us is what comes out, you know.
Blistering.com: I take it that you guys will not be voting for George Bush this election?
Umm…no, that’s not likely. [Laughs]
Blistering.com: The war on Terror and war on Iraq (and everything else that’s been going on these days) has really sparked your creative juices.
Yeah.
Blistering.com: With this being an election year and everything, was it intended to come out with an album that’ll throw a wrench into Bush’s campaign?
No, you know when we wrote all this music, particularly the song ‘Megalomaniac’, we never intended of it having political connotations but I think that Brandon, for his point of view, was writing more from a social, observational stand-point.
Blistering.com: But the video for that was…
…The video for that track was very symbolic of the times and had a lot of anti-war, anti-Bush sentiments in it. It just really sparked kind of a firestorm of controversy. [Laughs]
Blistering.com: Yeah, didn’t they even ban the video on MTV?
Yeah, for a little while, which was kind of humorous. But all in all, way more people loved that video then were protesting against it and the only thing that MTV did by banning it and people protesting it did was just put more of a focus on it.
Blistering.com: Controversy is good.
Yeah, I guess.
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