Metal Anarchy

Dez Fafara was recently interviewed by The Rockpit, and was asked about the new DevilDriver album. During the interview, he said that the effort will be released in 2016 and that the band have already written “12 blistering songs” for it.

Here’s what he said about the new album:

“I’m recording a new DevilDriver record at the end of this year. I’m sitting on 12 blistering songs that I’m in love with and I’m recording those [in] October-November this year and sometime next year [in] spring/summer/fall, I’m going to release another DevilDriver record and get right back in a DevilDriver cycle. I don’t want DevilDriver sitting around too long but we definitely needed to take a break out of the markets and a break from touring for a little bit.”

He also added the following about the band’s break:

“It wasn’t even just a case of burn out, we put out a record every two years solid for 12 years and we never really took a year off between touring which most bands do. And it was like ‘You know what? Let’s recharge.’ Mike [Spreitzer] went home and does his studio and is surfing everyday, I was helping to re-do my studio here as well and by the time they were all ready which is now … I mean they have been writing daily and sending me songs nightly … by the time we all get done here, we’ll probably get in July-August with about 20 songs and I’ll start narrowing it down and then we’ll get together in October-November and do a record. I’ll tell you now, it’s definitely going to be something blistering! The music is on a different level right now with what’s going on with DevilDriver.”

This will be DevilDriver’s first album with new drummer Austin D’Amond (ex-Chimaira) and new guitarist Neal Tiemann (Burn Halo).