Red Fang celebrates the band's 20th year in 2025, announced a rarities collection called Deep Cuts out on March 14on Relapse Records, following by a US your.
The collection includes b-sides, compilation tracks, singles, and more -- with the new released "It's Always There" posted below. The song is from the deluxe version of Whales and Leeches.
“I remember really liking the melancholic vibe of ‘It’s Always There,’ but Aaron and I had no vocal ideas coming to mind,” Bryan Giles explains. “When I lived in San Diego, I became friendly with Pall Jenkins, and was always a fan of Three mile Pilot and The Black Heart Procession, so it was exciting for me to enlist his help bringing the song to life. I think he did a really beautiful job on it!”
In further reflection, Aaron Beam summarizes his feelings: “Perhaps unremarkable to anyone else, it's fucking amazing to me that we have made it TWENTY YEARS...Before we started jamming in John Sherman's basement, I'd already been in 40 (maybe more!) bands, none of which lasted more than a year or two. Yet somehow in 2005, for the first time since probably 1987 I found myself without any band to play in. It turned out this was also true of John, David, and Bryan! So it was only natural that we'd start playing together."
The band most recently released Arrows in 2021.
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Deep Cuts track list:
- Antidote (from the “Red Fang: Headbang!” mobile game)
- The Shadows (from Scion AV Presents – Red Fang)
- Murder The Mountains (bonus track from Whales and Leeches Deluxe Version)
- Weird Poly *
- Hollow Light *
- Over The Edge (Wipers’ cover)
- Listen To The Sirens (Tubeway Army cover)
- Stereo Nucleosis (from the Adult Swim Singles Series)
- Black Hole (bonus track from Murder the Mountains Deluxe Digital Version)
- Through (No Talent cover)
- Champ Chugger **
- Ice Ice Baby *
- It’s Always There (bonus track from Whales and Leeches Deluxe Version)
- Black Water (bonus track from Whales and Leeches Deluxe Version)
- Pawn Everything (bonus track from Murder the Mountains Deluxe Digital Version)
- Wires (Demo)
- In 5 With Keys *
- Bad Places (Played on the band’s first U.S. tour, one of the first ever Red Fang songs)
- Forgot To Write *
- Endless Sea (from the Spelljams soundtrack)
- Suicide (Dust cover)
- OMG OMD *
- LSP (from “Wires” single)
- 50’s Tremors **
- AGB Fruit **
- Feeder (bonus track from Only Ghosts Deluxe Version)
*-Written/recorded during the pandemic lockdowns at the band’s practice space
**- Songs recorded at Aaron’s house “almost certainly while legally high on marijuana”
