Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with WSOU 89.5 FM, Shadows Fall singer Brian Fair discussed the band’s new material. According to him, the music has some “new vibes.”

Fair said the following:

“We’re working on new music right now that’s — you can tell it’s SHADOWS FALL, but, man, it’s got new vibes, it’s got new influences and it’s just kind of a very fresh approach.

When we first started working on it, we were worried. We were, like, ‘Is this gonna sound like us?’ We hadn’t written songs together in five to six years, where it’s gonna be. And, man, right out of the gate, we were, like, ‘This is the SHADS. We’re back.’”

He continued when asked about the musical direction:

“Honestly, it’s gonna be everything that we’ve always done, plus more. And we’re probably about — I’d say we’ve got six or seven songs that are actually songs. They’re still gonna get some tweaks here and there, with a few other ideas still floating around that need to be worked on. But I don’t know what time frame — we’re not pushing any sort of deadlines on ourselves ’cause it’s been, man, since 2014 since we dropped any new music so we’re not in a rush. We wanna get it as perfect as we can, we wanna be as happy with it as we can, and [we’re] not having label pressure to finish by a certain time. It’s also a new day and age where you can release it in such different ways than we were used to back then, and that’s really exciting as well. I don’t know if we’ll drop some songs here and there and then put it all out together on vinyl at the end. I have no idea about that stuff yet. We’ll work all that out, but I’m super excited about these songs. I’ve also been pushing myself as a singer to really expand my range to try new ideas, and having the time to work through that has been really helpful. ‘Cause even when SHADOWS FALL was doing downtime, I was doing different projects and trying to really bring some new elements to what I do, and I’m putting all that into this record. So it’ll sound like SHADOWS FALL, but there’ll definitely be some some new interesting ideas and approaches and stuff. So it’s really exciting.

For us, it’s just been great to be back in the room jamming on new material, ’cause when we got together to do these [reunion] shows, when we’re rehearsing, we were, like, ‘If we’re putting this work in, why not see what happens with new music?’ And I couldn’t be happier with how it’s coming out. So, really exciting.”

[via Blabbermouth]