As far as omens go, finding out about a studio flood the weekend before you’re supposed to make your new album seems like a bad one. That’s the unlikely predicament Philadelphia’s Jesus Piece found themselves in ahead of recording their sophomore full-length, …So Unknown, when a burst pipe at Belleville, New Jersey’s The Machine Shop forced producer Randy Leboeuf to frantically clear gear out of his lower-floor control room to avoid some serious water damage.
“It was terrible timing,” Jesus Piece guitarist John DiStefano recalls of the plumbing disaster. Leboeuf was nevertheless quick on his feet to keep the sessions on-pace, ultimately setting the metallic hardcore quintet up in The Machine Shop’s upstairs drum room. “Luckily there was a studio already built up there, otherwise I think we would have been screwed. We would have had to wait for him to totally rebuild.”
