The track is quintessential Caustic Casanova with its freaky use of Psychedelic Beats, Sludge Grooves and Stoner Metal menace. Sludge/Stoner Metal Experimentalists Caustic Casanova will return with their 5th album Glass Enclosed Nerve Center on October 7th 2022 and the band have just released their first single – Lodestar. 7, on Magnetic Eye Records, is their first recording with Kimberley.įrom an article about Caustic Casanova’s new album “Glass Enclosed Nerve Center” by Neal Augenstein. “Lodestar,” the first single from their upcoming album, which will be released Oct. “What’s in there - I want to go on a mission to figure it out, so that’s why I think it sounds super cool.”īeringer describes the band’s music as “heavy, progressive rock,” while its Bandcamp page includes a range from “sardonic noise rock to proggy sludge” and “a kaleidoscope of progressive heavy rock exuberance.” “I think it sounds very mysterious, ‘Glass Enclosed Nerve Center,’” said Zaenker. Zaenker and Kimberley liked Beringer’s idea for the album title. Zaenker grew up in Charlottesville, and went to William & Mary with Beringer. Why would a progressive rock band name its album for an all-news radio station? (WTOP/Michelle Goldchain) “You didn’t have many friends in school, did you?” I asked. “I just thought it sounded awesome, and always had this idea that someday I wanted to have an album called ‘Glass Enclosed Nerve Center.’” “Ever since I was a little kid, I loved that string of words together, even devoid of its meaning,” said Beringer.

What was it about the phrase “Glass Enclosed Nerve Center?” What’s still not clear is why the band would want to name its new album after a news station whose former promotional liner included the phrase, “Your favorite radio station doesn’t play songs?” With its years of experience in recording studios, Caustic Casanova knew to observe the ‘On Air’ light, which comes on when an anchor turns on a microphone in a studio. With a first stop at the coffee machine, we got the go-ahead from morning show producer Teddy Gelman to drop in on Joan Jones and Bruce Alan.

Guitarist Andrew Yonki wasn’t able to make it. Thursday morning, Francis, drummer and singer Stefanie Zaenker, and new guitarist Jake Kimberley stopped by for a tour of the newsroom. When we read on Twitter that a D.C.-area band was set to release an album named for the #GENC, we had to invite them in to learn more. So, maybe it’s not surprising that Caustic Casanova’s upcoming album is called “Glass Enclosed Nerve Center,” the nickname WTOP’s longtime boss, Jim Farley, bestowed upon the newsroom in the early 2000s.

“It’s funny that someone who grew up to be a musician would have had such a music-less childhood.” “We really didn’t listen to music in our house, we just didn’t - we listened to the news, constantly, as a family,” said Beringer. “What do you mean you didn’t listen to music,” I asked incredulously. “I didn’t really grow up listening to music at all, and my parents didn’t really listen to music - ever,” said Francis Beringer, who plays bass and sings with D.C. You can usually tell a lot about a band’s sound and musical influences by what they listened to on the radio when they were younger.

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