During an appearance on the Loaded Radio podcast, As I Lay Dying’s Tim Lambesis offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the group are “just trying to find the right representation of the sound.”
Lambesis said the following:
“We’ve had this back and forth mixing the record, where the record has been done for quite a while and we’re just trying to find the right representation of the sound. With modern music, there’s so many… ‘Cause classically, as an example, there used to be five or six guys that were great at mixing metal and now you have so many different approaches to it. And we’re just really trying to find that sound where it marries together the nostalgic sound AS I LAY DYING is known for with a little bit of a modern twist to it. And for whatever reason, that part’s been delaying the process, but the record’s actually done. [It] just needs to finish the mix.”
He continued when asked about the title:
“Shoot. I wish I could actually give you the title. Unfortunately, Phil [Sgrosso], our guitar player, and I have a slight disagreement over what the album title should be. We both love the same concept and we’re just sort of toying with the words a little bit.”
He also added the following about the effort’s sound:
“I wrote one of the heavy-leaning songs in the record. I feel like it’s one of the heaviest songs that’s ever been in the As I Lay Dying catalog, and then Phil wrote a lot of melodic songs that are sort of… Both of us worked on some songs that are sort of in the middle, I guess you could say. And then he worked on a couple, I think, that stretch in a new sense of melody for us. It’s not necessarily anything groundbreaking — it’s not gonna shatter people’s minds, like, ‘Oh, my gosh. It barely sounds like As I Lay Dying.’ But just kind of stretch our sound a little bit in each direction.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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