Crossfade are reuniting, ending a prolonged hiatus to play their first exhibits since 2012.
The Columbia, South Carolina-based band will make its return to the stage on Could tenth on the Sonic Temple competition in Columbus, Ohio (get tickets right here). The post-grunge outfit has additionally been booked for the Inkcarceration competition on the weekend of July 18th in Mansfield, Ohio.
“We’re so grateful to the band for coming along with us to lastly make this a particular actuality in 2025!” shared the Sonic Temple official Instagram account.
Greatest recognized for his or her 2004 hit “Chilly,” Crossfade garnered business success in the course of the nu-metal/post-grunge explosion of the early 2000s, although the band had existed beneath totally different names since 1991.
Below the Crossfade moniker, they launched three studio albums between 2004 and 2011 earlier than taking an prolonged break in 2012 after a studio fireplace destroyed their gear, merch, and the songs that they had been recording.
Bassist Mitch James recalled the circumstances surrounding the studio fireplace in a brand new YouTube documentary from Rock Feed about Crossfade’s reunion.
“We have been dwelling after a tour that didn’t go fairly in addition to we hoped,” James mentioned. “Les had a bachelor social gathering, which all of us attended. After the bachelor social gathering and plenty of drinks, all of us went again to the studio, which is a really massive house, and simply frolicked. I ended up leaving to go dwelling, and several other of the blokes fell asleep there.”
He continued: “A heater caught on fireplace — burned our whole studio to the bottom. Twenty-five years value of kit, songs, computer systems, photos, merch, all the pieces. That was a fast option to say, ‘Nicely, I suppose we’re completed for some time.’”
Frontman Ed Sloan labored on solo materials within the intervening years, however the band hasn’t performed a present collectively for over a decade.
“It looks like we’re simply beginning model new,” Sloan mentioned within the documentary. “Virtually prefer it was again in 1997 once we didn’t have a report, didn’t have a report label, we weren’t enjoying exhibits — and that’s the place we discover ourselves proper now.”
You may try the complete documentary about Crossfade’s reunion, in addition to the music video for “Chilly,” under.