El Paso must have made an impression on Taking Back Sunday.
The band has posted a new video of a song called "El Paso" on its website, which singer Adam Lazzara has described as "probably the heaviest rock song we've ever written."
"It's a total motorcycle-raging-down-the-highway type of song," he told spin.com last October.
The song doesn't appear to be about the Sun City, but may be in homage to the time the group spent in the area last spring, including a trip to Jim Ward's Hope and Anchor bar and a Deftones show at Club 101.
"You'll never give what you get," Lazzara shouts angrily over roiling guitars, pounding bass and explosive drums.
The video features the song's lyrics, flashed one at a time in various type fonts, with Tweets from fans and a few pictures of the band.
"El Paso," which was posted on takingbacksunday.com on March 28, is one of 11 songs expected to be on their new, as yet-untitled album, due this summer.
An earlier post said the new album, which was not recorded here, is being mastered.
A European tour will start in May, followed, presumably, by a U.S. tour.
Lazarra, guitarist Ernie Reyes and drummer Mark O'Connell reunited last year with guitarist John Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper after nearly eight years apart. The lineup was featured on the band's first album, "Tell All Your Friends," released in 2002.
TBS went on to bigger success, and a major-label deal with Warner Bros. Records, with other musicians. Nolan and Cooper started Straylight Run.
The revitalized lineup agreed to meet at an out-of-the-way place last spring — Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, where Hanson, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Conor Oberst and Mudvayne have recorded recent albums — to see if the reunion would work and maybe write some songs.
They assembled more than 20 songs, Lazzara told the El Paso Times during the sessions, including, presumably, "El Paso."
"We just wanted to be guys and reconnect with that, " Lazzara said in an April 26 interview from the studio, where the band worked from mid- to late April.
"There's something magic about this place. The work we've gotten don here, (given) the history of the band, it would have taken seven to eight months to get that done."
Lazzara recently told England's nme.com that "once we all started hanging out and writing and playing music together again, it felt like we had got back on track."
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