Dan Lorenzo Throws A Curveball
The core of Patriarchs In Black--Johnny Kelly and Dan Lorenzo (right).
He usually comes out smoking with both guns blazing in bands like Hades, Non-Fiction, Cassius King and Patriarchs In Black but on the new Patriarchs In Black single, “Celestial Yard,” there he is playing guitar on a song with the kind of sincere melody that maybe Jackson Browne might write. Could it be? Who is this guitarist and what did he do with our favorite Paramus headbanger? The new album—Home—isn’t due from Metalville Records until August 15. This certainly doesn’t sound like its first single “The Call” with Lorenzo, Type O Negative drummer Johnny Kelly, Corrosion Of Conformity singer Karl Agell and Black Label Society bassist JD DeServio. “Celestial Yard” has Lorenzo and Kelly with singer Mark Sunshine of RiotGod and Unida (must be his fault, he wrote it with Lorenzo) plus a violinist(?!), Emma Smoler, who Lorenzo met in Florida. (On bass is the original Non-Fiction bassist Damon Trotta.)
Anyone remotely attuned to what Lorenzo has been spewing forth over the last two decades will be mystified by the new direction. For his part, he gushed, “hey, man, it’s something different. I only play acoustic and I LOVE the vocals, the melody and the lyrics and, of course, the fact that the drummer is wearing a Hades shirt.”