The late, great Roadside Monument reunited earlier this month to perform a blistering set at the 2022 Furnace Fest in Birmingham, Alabama.
Doug Lorig, Johnathon Ford, and Matt Johnson stopped releasing Roadside Monument albums after 1998’s I Am the Day of Current Taste (which was recently reissued on limited edition vinyl). As can be seen in J. Slickwood’s video, however, the trio’s performance made it clear that time has done nothing to blunt their intense, intricate, and emotional brand of math rock and post-hardcore.
The band’s Furnace Fest set featured songs from I Am the Day of Current Taste and 1997’s Eight Hours Away from Being a Man (my personal favorite album of theirs), including such classics as “Crop Circles,” “My Hands are the Thermometers,” and of course, “Sperm Ridden Burden.”
Roadside Monument previously reunited back in 2017 and at Cornerstone 2002.