Next week, Genghis Tron will return with Dream Weapon, the band’s first new album since the 2008 experimental metal monster Board Up The House. Genghis Tron went on hiatus after they released that album, and the current version of the band is pretty different from the ones who released that album. Co-founders Hamilton Jordan and Michae...

Genghis Tron posted a Myspace blog on Friday informing fans that the group is taking some time off.

Somewhere between releasing 2004's You Fail Me and No Heroes in 2006, I started seeing Kurt Ballou getting name-checked more as a producer at his Salem-based GodCity studios than as the guitarist of one of Massachusetts's mightiest exports, Converge. If you take a quick look at what he's recorded between even just 2008 and now, it makes sense: T...