(The metal album is due later this year.) "We finish that album," Cuomo recalls, "and our manager calls and says 'Guess what? The whole tour is off! There's a pandemic!' " Off the hook, Weezer turned back to its original, orchestral plan. So they pivoted, dramatically, and made a heavy metal album.
"We're like, 'OK, we just made the worst possible album ,' " he says. Cuomo says it was the right news for the wrong moment. The band had been booked on the 2020 Hella Mega Tour, which would have the quartet co-headlining alongside Green Day and Fall Out Boy, shredding guitars for audiences in the hundreds of thousands. As it was wrapping up production, Cuomo got a fateful phone call. The story of OK Human dates back to 2017, when the band decided to begin working on album that would back up its rock instrumentation with an orchestra. Weezer's lead singer and songwriter, Rivers Cuomo, works on so much music simultaneously that, during NPR's interview about the band's latest album, he briefly had to check his notes to remind himself what songs are even on it. Weezer's new record, OK Human, is an orchestral affair, recorded back to back with a heavy metal album.
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