Code Orange: not settling for bronze
PRESS
‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade’, the saying goes. And no band in 2020 did that quite like Code Orange. Except their particular brand of lemonade just happe ned to involve the most disorientating, nightmarish, cutting-edge modern metal in recent memory.
Underneath, their third full-length since they dropped the ‘Kids’ suffix, was released to widespread critical acclaim on March 13, and then, mere days later, the near-global lockdown began. Suddenly, Code Orange’s assault on metal’s throne had been frustratingly sabotaged by outside sources. “We were faced with the sort of conundrum that we are used to at this point,” vocalist Jami Morgan tells us. “Do we just accept it, or try and find our own way around it? We just immediately started formulating Plan B. I prefer not to think of what could have happened, or what might have happened. The way I look at it is that we are going to get two runs at this record. We looked at it as an opportunity to carve a new way through the sludge.”