“It’s a story about resilience, finding ways to cope, and not giving up.” Watch the trailer for Every Time You Lose Your Mind, a new documentary saluting cult alt.rockers Failure, featuring interviews with Maynard James Keenan, Hayley Williams and more

A documentary about cult Los Angeles alt. rock band Failure is to air later this month, almost a decade on from when it was first announced.

Every Time You Lose Your Mind, directed by the band’s singer and driving force Ken Andrews, will premiere on Hulu and Disney+ on June 27.

A band ahead of their time, Failure never achieved more than cult success in the 1990s, despite scoring positive reviews from critics and numerous endorsements from their peers: their 1996 album Fantastic Planet is one of the most under-rated records of the decade. A year after its release, the band split, with its promise frustratingly unfulfilled.

“It was a good period for some bands, but not to us,” Andrews told Metal Hammer in 2015, a year after the band reformed . “Our sound was confusing to a lot of people. It was confusing to records labels, it was confusing to press and it was confusing to a lot of fans.”

In the documentary, some of the band’s most high profile fans – Tool’s Maynard James Keenan, Paranore’s Hayley Williams, Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee and Mastodon’s Troy Sanders among them – salute Andrews’ band, as do producers/musicians Steve Albini, Butch Vig and fans within the worlds of film and television.

In a newly-released trailer for the documentary, Nevermind producer Vig hails Fantastic Planet as ” a gret unsung classic”, adding “There’s a lot of records from the ’90s I really don’t want to ever listen to again, but that record I put on all the way through.”

“Our fans have connected with the themes of depression and addiction in our music,” Andrews says in a statement announcing the film’s imminent release. “The film crystallizes those connections and, ultimately, communicates hope. We’re a band that faced a specific set of challenges and somehow managed to survive and thrive. It’s a story about resilience, finding ways to cope, and not giving up.”

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