Their self-titled debut won a Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album. While recovering in rehab and working on their second album, he converted to Christianity and left the band, retreating to Jackson, Tennessee.Īfter several years, Josh Brown re-entered the music scene with his new project Day of Fire which was signed to Essential Records until 2007. In 2000, Brown nearly died of a heroin overdose. The band's current lineup consists of Josh Brown (vocals), Brian Kirk (guitar), Paul Varnick (guitar), Moose Douglass (bass) and Keith Foster (drums). In September 2015, the band toured with American rock band Bridge to Grace from Atlanta, Georgia. It contains 10 new songs and feature cover art of a painting by singer Josh Brown. Their album Valley of Bones was released on March 31. On January 14, 2015, it was announced that FDJ signed a worldwide deal with eOne Music. In 2013, the band started a Kickstarter page to help fund and promote a new album. FDJ members Keith Foster and Kevin Bebout were also involved. Every Mother's Nightmare guitarist Jeff Caughron joined the band after Reaves' death.īrown and Montoya also formed a new band with Jason Null from Saving Abel named A New Rebel. On July 27, 2011, James Michael Reaves died after battling cancer. This led to more live performances as well as recording new material. The EP included "Shelter", "All Apologies", "Superdysfunctional Hero", and "Sober".įull Devil Jacket announced a one-time reunion concert on June 19, 2010, in Jackson, Tennessee, to benefit the James Michael Reaves Medical Expense Fund. This incarnation of the band worked on some of the same songs that they started with Brown.
Full Devil Jacket recruited a new lead singer (Ben Hatch then Jamie Martin) and a new second guitarist (Dave White) and recorded an unreleased EP under their new name of WaxBox before dissolving altogether. Īfter the departure of Brown, Michael Reaves also left the band. Some of the songs the band was working on were "Shelter", "All Apologies", "Superdysfunctional Hero", and "Bottle". An unfinished album from this time remains unreleased. However, while on tour with Creed, Josh Brown suffered a drug overdose and subsequently quit the band. The band toured with Creed, Nickelback, Type O Negative, played at Woodstock 99, and was featured on the Tattoo the Earth tour with Mudvayne, Slipknot, Sepultura, Slayer, Drain STH, and Coal Chamber with Metallica headlining one show. in October 1999, followed by an eponymous LP in March 2000 that was quickly certified gold. They first released an EP titled A Waxbox To Put Your Frankenstein Head In. While signed to Def Jam Records, the band had a successful career. Another story is that the band simply pulled the name from a magazine article. One is that the band was named after a song written by lead singer Josh Brown, called "Full Devil Jacket". There are two stories on how the band chose this name. While still playing gigs in Jackson, the band caught the eye of rock producer Malcolm Springer ( Matchbox 20, Collective Soul).īefore being signed to Island/Def Jam Records, the band changed its name to Full Devil Jacket. Jonathan Montoya was the last addition to the band as the second guitarist. to Self-Destruct. We do know that the band wrote 10 songs during the COVID-19 lockdown, however, Lars Ulrich admitted earlier this year that their progress on the new album has been very slow - "glacial" is the exact term he used.Musicians Josh Brown, Mike Reaves, Kevin Bebout, and Keith Foster all met at Josh Brown's brother's tattoo shop in Jackson, Tennessee and formed the band Voodoo Hippies. Some of Metallica's Instagram followers have speculated that the "fall" hashtag was alluding to some sort of box set to commemorate the anniversary of the album, while others are curious whether it means they are releasing a whole new album in general.Ī new Metallica record would be their first release since 2016's Hardwired. This year marks the 30th anniversary of The Black Album, which was initially released on Aug.
See Metallica's post, as well as the screenshot from Reddit, below. The band apparently removed that hashtag from the caption, because people in the comments also wrote "coming this fall." Someone on the Metallica reddit actually posted a screenshot of the Instagram video, which also had the hashtag, "coming this fall" at the very bottom.