Cold Working Towards All-Star EP For Winter

06/02/2003 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
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(6/2/03, 4 p.m. ET) -- Cold, who recently released its new album Year Of The Spider, is hoping to release an EP this winter. Vocalist/frontman Scooter Ward said that there's an underground acoustic movement going on, and the band wants to tap into it--just as their idols Alice In Chains did with their EPs in the early '90s.

"You know Alice In Chains did Sap, they did an EP, and they had a bunch of their friends from like Mudhoney, Soundgarden... You know everybody came in and kinda joined in," Ward said. "So me and Terry talked about doing a six-song EP, you know, probably by winter time, and just putting [it] out there [with] all of our friends on it and just seeing what happens."

Ward said that some of the friends he has targeted for the album include members of Nonpoint, Staind, and Sevendust. "We're going to get [vocalist] Elias [Soriano] from Nonpoint and [Staind vocalist] Aaron Lewis. And probably Lajon [Witherspoon] from Sevendust and [guitarist] Clint [Lowery] and see what happens there."

Cold shows its affection for the old grunge scene with the song "The Day Seattle Died" from Year Of The Spider. The song is an ode to Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley, who died of an overdose and late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide.

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