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Thursday broke up more than a decade ago after helping define 2000s post-hardcore.
Then they broke up again.
Just keep doing it, Rickly recalls.
This is all bonus time.
The band already died its death.
But it does feel freeing to not be on a label and to just be doing it.
We were tossing demos back and forth, and nothing was happening.
We let them sit for a while.
With the last one, everyone was like, This one has an amazing chorus.
How can you not like that?
And I was like, I just feel like its too much the same thing over and over again.
Suddenly I love this song!
Since we got back together eight years ago, this is the biggest the bands been.
That was the question that I had to ask: Is an album in the works?
Thats just the kind of person that I am.
I feel very strongly about things until something changes my mind.
Right now the idea is We did a split, maybe well do a song for a compilation.
Maybe well do a cover.
Maybe well do a split seven-inch with a young band that we love.
You just decided to write a song and you got right to the point.
Thats the way it really feels to me.
I thought the record should be claustrophobic.
I wanted the band to write a record that captured that feeling.
Its got the least amount of philosophizing about it.
In some ways, its what I would want if I was a fan.
Youre 13 years older than the last time you did it.
Who are you now?
Were you primarily in that headspace while writing it?That was part of it.
I think all the time about that song This Song Brought to You by a Falling Bomb.
My favorite song on the record.Thank you.
I had this feeling of being so trapped.
That isnt even a productive feeling, you know what I mean?
Because its like, if youre going to be active, dont get doom-pilled.
Theres no time for nihilism.
Sorry to get so political.
No, thats fine.
To me,War All the Timecaptures that idea.Ive never heard that and I love that.
That is absolutely how it has to be.
Understanding what things you could control isreallythe hard part.
Because yeah, I do have the will to change what I can, and I want to.
Like, no we still have to fight, you know what I mean?
It doesnt mean, like, Well, Im just an addict.
I cant do anything.
You did the Emos Not Dead cruise and youre doing the When We Were Young Festival again this year.
It should be noted that when we were younger, I was such an extreme hater.
Id just be like, That band sucks.
Im so glad that I get to be friends with him again.
And then bands like Silverstein.
Victory Records at the time pitted us against each other in this weird way.
When I talked to Silverstein finally, they were like, We had no idea they were doing that.
We should have been friends.
Our chemistry was insane.
Two songs in particular were murder on my voice, and the biggest one is Tomorrow Ill Be You.
I just couldnt sing that live.
Now when we play it, I feel totally confident.
I readan interviewyou did with Trent Reznor in 2004.
You asked him aboutThe Downward Spiral: Did you ever have the feeling that it was your masterpiece?
How Long Is the Night?
was the last song we mixed.
We had been up all night.
And Im just telling you because it is a strange little masterpiece.
Thats the closest Ive ever felt toMaybe it is a little masterpiece.
WhenWar All the Timewas being made, I was not in a good place.
I just didnt really see anything good happening in life.
Im glad that Ive made it past that era.
I just dont have that relationship with music.
Its like,How lucky am I that I get to celebrate something that people still care about?
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
