4/6/2024 0 Comments Flotsam and jetsam bandSo how does Kelly explain the band’s almost non-stop existence? Many bands of that era broke up and reformed after ten or fifteen years apart. Kelly remembers it well: “ That’s not something you forget! It was amazing! When you get a review like that it really makes you feel you’re doing the right thing and that the band was going to be for the long run.” Well, quite – over 25 years and still going! The title came from The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings and it seemed like a good name.”ĭoomsday for the Deceiver received six “K”‘s in Kerrang magazine – the first album ever to do so. While we were Paradox, we wrote a song called “Flotsam and Jetsam”. Maybe because a bunch of guys called Dogz was a little derogatory or something. I can’t really remember why we changed from Dogz. We didn’t really know what we wanted to be, musically, at the time. Kelly corrects me on my timeline: “ We went from Paradox to Dreadlox (with an “x”!) and then onto Dogz for about a year and a half. The band started off in the mid-80’s as Paradox, then Dogz and onto Flotsam and Jetsam. Kelly Smith of Flotsam and Jetsam gave up half an hour of his time to have a chat with me and take me through the band’s history. Ugly Noise One of the longest-standing bands on the metal scene, there at the birth of thrash and back with a crowd-funded new album.
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