Metal Anarchy

During an interview with Metal Global, Halestorm’s Josh Smith revealed that Dave Cobb will be producing the band’s new album. Release plans for the record are still pending.

Smith said the following:

“We went down to [Dave’s] place and all lived together for three weeks, which is — we live together on tour all the time, yeah, but to be in a creative space, it was incredible. And the music that came out is undeniably HALESTORM. There’s going to be a lot of fan favorites.”

He continued when asked about the recording process:

“What we’re doing and how he wants to work, how he’s capturing us is what we do on stage. For instance, we’re not using a click track; there’s no time keep. It’s us doing it, and so there’s a lot of movement to the music… It’s so human.

I think naturally when you’re even talking, just from building tension to releasing it and how that happens, and sometimes from a verse maybe is building and the tempo feels like it’s building, and then the chorus — well, at least on stage — naturally probably bumps up a few BPM [beats per minute] or slows down, depending. And even our transitions or Arejay’s [Hale, HALESTORM drummer] fills will push or pull. It’s very human.”

He also added the following after the interviewer said it’s “always fun to work with new people and create new ideas when someone has a different view from the one you normally have”:

“Yeah, for sure. I mean, that’s what you hope for in working [with] a producer. It’s this person you really have to vibe with that fits into this, in this case our little world. And that chemistry between a band is so unique to every group. And so for someone to fit in, that’s a special trait to have. [It’s] essentially [bringing in] a fifth member of the band that can extract the uniqueness of that band. It’s big shoes to fill for a producer. And thankfully we’ve been lucky with it, with [previous HALESTORM producers] Nick [Raskulinecz] and Jay [Joyce], and Howard [Benson] was great. But, yeah, starting with someone new and also someone who has had a very different approach from the previous one, it’s really exciting. And he really is bringing out the best of us. So, yeah, it’s really exciting to find someone who is so good at their craft… And he just wants to catch what everyone is excited about — lightning in a bottle. And we’ve been doing that. And we’ve caught a lot. I can’t wait to go back. It’s really fun. I can’t wait to get back to writing new music.”

He also confirmed that release plans are still up in the air:

“But we just worked on, like — I don’t know how many songs we got worked up, 10 or 12. And we’ll probably do that again when we get a chance next year, and see where we are. But it’s really exciting. It’s always so exciting to create new stuff and then show it to people and get judged.”

[via Blabbermouth]