As the old saying goes, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Or as the late literary icon Samuel Beckett put it: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” It’s a powerful sentiment, and one that Nothing More have taken to heart ever since forming in San Antonio, Texas in 2003. For the first decade or so of their existence, the hard rock four-piece struggled to make their mark on an oversaturated scene, but they didn’t give up. On 2009’s third album, The Few Not Fleeting, drummer Johnny Hawkins took over as the band’s lead vocalist. Its self-titled follow-up, like the three albums before it, was self-released. But then the band got the breakthrough it had been striving for for so long and the album got a wider release the next year via El...
