Squealer A.D. Finally Arrives

05/21/07
. (PR) Dortmund, Germany�s Squealer A.D. may have released the most intense, ballsy, adventurous, dense, abstract and alternative metal CD of the year in Confrontation Street (Locomotive; due May 22; originally released OCT. �06) . Its 11 tracks in 45:56 bespeaks a soiled profundity, one that takes time getting used to but sinks in hard, like a tattoo, and doesn�t, no matter what you do, ever come out again. Its vision is bleak; its purview mired in a hopeless fury of inchoate yearning. You don�t sit down to simply enjoy such a passion, you inject it, then lie down and let its effects wash over you.

Judas Priest knew the inherent power within. That�s why the superstar act asked them to open a 2002 tour. The new record, flush with the thrill of Euro stages, was started in 2003 and scheduled for 2005. A hospital stay, though, for singer Andy �Henner� Allendorfer, pushed production back. So the release date was postponed for what they thought would be 2006. On January 16, 2005, on the way to a private gig for a fan who just turned 50, Henner�s car skated on some black roadside ice and he died at the scene of the crash. He was 38.

Squealer, as they were originally known, for all intents and purposes, was finished. Henner meant way too much to start again with a new singer�until the demise of another popular band, Grip Inc. When vocalist Gus Chambers became a free agent, drummer Mike Terrana rang up his old Dortmund jam buddy and gave him the basic tracks of new material to ponder. The match proved prophetic.

Out of respect for Henner�s memory, Squealer, with Chambers at the front, became Squealer A.D. for obvious reasons.

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