Ten Years Later: Spirit Division - Spirit Division
While Spirit Division wasn’t my first serious band, it was the first that I formed with a fairly specific idea of what I wanted it to sound like. I always described what I was going for as “blues metal” with stuff like Danzig’s Lucifuge, Badlands, and Black Sabbath’s debut as primary reference points alongside stoner-doom flourishes rooted in Saint Vitus and Clutch among others. I’d also had my local Indy scene inspirations in groups like The Gates of Slumber, Devil to Pay, and Black Stone Ritual and seeing The Midnight Ghost Train when my old band Psychic Faith gigged with them in 2012 proved to be a huge catalyst. Of course the vision wasn’t fully formed in 2013 and the next year and a half came with some awkward growing pains. I assumed bass and lead vocals with my Psychic Faith bandmate David on drums, having made up after a brief falling out when we split the year before, and Nightmares on Earth’s Brad Mohr as our original guitarist. We couldn’t tell if we should be a trio or quar...