Break Anchor, 'A Failure of Epic Proportions' (Ex-Suicide Machines) -- Song Premiere

Break Anchor rose from the ashes of the Suicide Machines. "People don't really know the whole story of the end of the Suicide Machines," frontman Jay Navarro tells Spinner. "In short, I had decided to either to call it quits or just play shows once and awhile." And that's exactly what he did. Navarro found a job and settled into the daily grind.

"Six years have passed since then," he explains. "A job with medical insurance and a 401k, not a ton of money but steady scraping by. It's a brutal job working in a 10-below freezer, lifting heavy-ass cases 60 hours a week. I come home tired and sore as f--- like most blue-collar people."

Listen to 'A Failure of Epic Proportions'


"Like many, I'm so tired when I come home from work I want nothing to do with my wife or kids. Which was the whole reason I quit touring in the first place. I'm so sore I can't sleep, so I drink and pop pills. I wake up in pain. I've watched, as I'm sure many of you have, the corporations rule and control the world. Our system has completely failed us.

"I feel I have failed my kids, my wife, and myself. I have failed all those who have believed in me. American Dream? This isn't living. So one drunken, frustrating night I wrote this song. It's not a song about feeling sorry for myself or anyone, and it's not an apology. It's just me saying, 'You know what world? With my last dying breath, I will spit Hell at thee.' Stay Defiant." Ladies and gentlemen, a first-hand account of how songs are born.

The song will be featured on their three-song 7-inch vinyl EP, 'Blackhearts and Blackouts,' which will be released through Paper + Plastick Records on March 20.