What’s goin’ on everyone--the 6 of you that might read this!!! All of this here is probably old news to the FAMILY, but we are proud to officially welcome in our new lead guitar player--Mr. Jeff Kletschka (formerly of Hammerdown) and our new percussionist--the one and only Mr. Tony Helder.

A few years ago, Angry Waters was privileged to play quite a few shows (the Rolling Blackouts tour--at least it was for Carter and myself --ha, ha!) with the MIGHTY Hammerdown. Seeing the dual-lead guitar attack of Jesse and Jeff completely blew us away. I’m still in awe of that band and I really miss their music. But, if you can’t have the band, you may as well go out and get the guitar player!!! So, once Tyrrelli left, that’s what we did. He is a bad-ass and his addition will be huge. He will do for us what Ben did when he joined.

In regards to Tony Helder, talk about coming full circle. I’ve known him for over 20 years. Never did I think I’d share the same stage with him. A lot of people know that I credit my uncle Scott for planting the seeds of rock n’ roll in me back when I was a youngster with bands like the Stones, Skynyrd, Sweet, Hendrix, etc… But I’d credit Tony with planting the seeds of heavy metal with the likes of Motley Crue (SHOUT AT THE DEVIL!!!) and Judas Priest in the mid 80s. There is not a better percussionist around. It’s good to see him back onstage where he belongs. I’m glad he’s on our side.

I’m not exactly sure when we’re gonna get this machine back up and running. Carter may be heading out of state for a couple of months. But, we will be back sometime in the near future. Truth be told, a little break is sometimes okay. We’ve had a busy year. I think I speak for everyone in the band when I say that we want to be playing music together for YEARS to come, not just months. We want to put out more albums--with an emphasis on the ‘s’. And if that means taking some time off now to preserve the future, then so be it. Don’t worry, the break won’t be too long--we’ve already got a pretty good Summer ‘08 to look forward to. And, it’ll get here sooner than you think. We will come back stronger than before.

As far as myself goes, I’ve got plenty on my plate to keep me busy. At some point in the near future I’m gonna start jamming’ with two very good friends of mine--’Vinnie’ Pauly Anthony and Brent Label Engel. SPIRIT OF REVOLT. I hope this becomes the third part of my musical triangle--a pure bad-ass hard rock band in the vein of GN’R, Sabbath, AIC, BLS, Down, CoC etc… We’ll see what happens.

Last, but definitely not least on the menu is Kill Switch. Wow. When we decided early last summer to do another record, we all agreed that the goal should be to make the heaviest album to ever come out of this area. And we’ve done that--at least thru the writing process. Ten songs. Heavy as fuck. Not in the realm of Deicide or Cannibal Corpse--that’s not our cup of tea. Heavy like Machine Head, Sepultura, Lamb of God, Pantera etc… I’m very proud of these songs (Bodes, Benny, Mark, and Mark pat yourselves on the back) and I can’t wait until we go in the studio--probably sometime in November. This will be a foreign experience for me going in with Chris, but I’m looking forward to it. If I enjoy myself there half as much as I do when I’m at Marko’s, it’ll be a good time. We’ve also got some cool shows comin’ up. We get to play with our good friends in Arcana on Oct. 13th, and Nov. 3rd . Also, we play with two ‘Kato legends DISKORD and DIESL on Oct. 20th. That one will be a pretty important show for me. Needless to say, the next couple of months with Kill Switch should be special.

I think that’s about all for now--goddamn I wrote a book. Thanks for the support. Wick