You might not know who Mike Williams is by name, but you may know him as the vocalist for The Agony Scene--one of my favorite bands.
All good things must come to an end, and The Agony Scene quietly disbanded after the release of their third album in 2008:
The Agony Scene is no more, for those of you who didn't already know. We reached a point where it wasn't making financial sense and we felt it was better to quit while we were ahead rather than dragging it out and dragging ourselves further into debt. I'm sad to see it end before I was ready to move on, but tastes change and times change and it just felt like the right time to call it quits. I had some amazing experiences over the last 5 years, met some amazing people, played shows with Danzig which is insane, traveled abroad and all that. We had a great run and I got everything out of it that I wanted to. The shitty part is when you put your whole life on hold and have to figure out what to do with yourself now that it's over. I'm starting something new musically, something that couldn't be further away from metal and hardcore. I'll post something when it gets recorded.
Well, it's been almost 4 years, but I finally got hold of some new stuff from him!
Mike seems to be in a very different place now, and he's been very much under the radar, but I managed to find what he was up to with some extensive Google'ing. What he's been (sparingly) working on has a very Traditional Rock / Americana / Blues / Country sound to it, and it's quite good, though vastly different from his work with The Agony Scene. He has a
Bandcamp site setup, and you can download 3 songs that he's put together for free, so check it out if you're feeling somber and folksy!
Without further ado, here's Mike William's new music (4 new songs!)!
Fall From Grace
Living a Lie & 12/18/09
Damnation
