The Black Pacific

VINYL FORMAT. When Pennywise vocalist Jim Lindberg left the band in 2009 after twenty years and nine studio albums, many people in the music world assumed that would be the last they had heard of Lindberg for a while. They were wrong. Almost immediately after leaving the band, Lindberg - who also wrote much of the music for Pennywise - recruited drummer Alan Vega and teamed up with Far guitarist and producer Shaun Lopez (Deftones, Giant Drag) to flush out a batch of songs that see Lindberg moving in a more sonically varied and experimental direction, without abandoning any of the aggression and energy of his previous act. The result is the Black Pacific's debut full-length, a collection of energetic anthems that encompass all of Lindberg's influences and also see his songwriting taken to the next level. "With this album there was definitely a sense that I had something to prove, and sometimes that's a good motivator," Lindberg explains. "This project has brought back a spirit of four guys just going into a room and jamming without any preconceptions. I can't wait for people to hear it."