During a recent interview with TotalRock, Adam Dutkiewicz offered an update on the new Killswitch Engage album. Notably, he also revealed that the group “decided to have everybody in the band become a part of the lyric writing” for the effort.
Dutkiewicz said the following:
“We’re still at demo stages, but we have quite a bit of demos. And Jesse’s been writing and rewriting and going back to the little chopping block. We decided to have everybody in the band become a part of the lyric writing too. So Jesse will bring ideas. We say, ‘We like this. We don’t like this. This is the idea. Carry on with that.’”
He also commented on the evolution of the ways in which the band create new music:
“In the past, I took a lot of it on my shoulders, to handle a lot of the duties. But I think the last record, in particular, everyone was just — they felt like a bit detached almost, because I was doing almost everything on my own. And I think they’re just, like, ‘We don’t even feel like we made a record.’ So they wanna be more of a part of the production process and the writing process. So I’ve made sure to keep everybody looped in and in the same circle. Communication’s key to anything.
I do my best to try to make something that we’re kind of proud of. So, at the end of the day, it’s up to me to make sure that everybody in the band is happy and we’re all going in the same direction.”
He also added the following about the musical direction of the new material:
“We’re still doing what we do. We’re just trying to push the boundaries and shake it up a little bit and make it not the same thing we’ve been doing for 20-something years.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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