During an appearance on Knotfest’s “Nu Pod” podcast, Burton C. Bell (ex-Fear Factory, etc.) further discussed his new music. The singer says the new material “is an amalgamation of everything [he has] ever done.”
Bell, who recently released the single “Anti-Droid“, said he will continue to focus on individual tracks:
“I’m working on individual singles at a time. I do have a record’s worth of music. But I’m adopting the hip-hop strategy where instead of coming up, releasing a single and then the whole album comes out a couple of weeks later, and then a couple of weeks later, when that album is out, the momentum of the single and the whole record just kind of slows and becomes sluggish and just almost crashes. So I learned watching hip-hop artists and other artists as well, [where] they would just release a single at a time, keep that momentum, keep that spotlight on them and just release a single every few weeks and just keep that momentum going.
In this day and age, the short attention span of the masses is very apparent. There’s this old saying in economics, less is more — supply and demand, less is more. So if you just feed ’em just a little bit at a time, they wanna hear more. And that’s where the interest stays. They’re compelled to keep listening. ‘Oh, he’s got something else coming out. Oh, he’s got something else coming out.’”
He went on to say that his next single will be “heavy”, “groovy” and “dark”:
“It’s more uptempo. It’s got more guitar in it. And it’s gonna be awesome. I’ve got a couple of guest artists on this next track that it’s gonna be sick. I recruited Paul Ferguson again, and I’ve also recruited Norman Westberg, guitar player from SWANS. SWANS is one of my favorite bands of all time and it’s a band that influenced not just me but NEUROSIS — a lot of bands — GODFLESH.”
He also added the following when asked about live shows:
“Yes to all of those questions. I’m in the process of booking a show. It’s gonna be a showcase. It’s gonna be in L.A., and I have a band together. They’re already working on [the set]. It’s a retrospection, so I plan to play four new songs, some deep-cut FEAR FACTORY, some [ASCENSION OF THE] WATCHERS, some G/Z/R, some CITY OF FIRE.
My new music is an amalgamation of everything I’ve ever done, and I’m gonna basically put it all together into this package and just see what happens. And the live show, it’s gonna be heavy, it’s gonna be groovy. And I wanna create a vibe. I really do.”
He continued when asked what he will perform as:
“It’ll be BURTON C. BELL — maybe BURTON C. BELL AND THE DROIDS. I don’t know. For now, it’ll just be BURTON C. BELL, but we’ll see what happens.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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