In a latest interview with Metallic Hammer, Kyuss drummer and founder Brant Bjork revealed he noticed Metallica as the kind of band he didn’t need Kyuss to change 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 needed to be this Kyuss!”
“I felt like we f*cking rocked and had hit the height of our chemistry on the time, and Metallica have 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 evening, mentioned the identical issues… I might inform it’d change into a touring circus, a machine. I used to be nonetheless 20 years outdated, and extra drawn to what we have been doing by way of improvising onstage and being unfastened. I needed Kyuss to go extra in that course.”
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 manner,” he mentioned.
“Had we identified the right way to maintain a band collectively, we might have simply had that band transferring all alongside and taking breaks every now and then to pursue different issues. However, yeah, it has this sort of cease and rebirth and reinvention… I share his frustration. However there’s all the time a solution to do it, and it simply takes communication,” he added.