During a recent interview with Pod Scum, Eyehategod guitarist Jimmy Bower offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the group already “have a lot of stuff written” for the effort.
Bower said the following when asked if the band are working on new material:
“Very much so. We have a lot of stuff written. It’s just a matter of getting in the room and putting it all together. We stayed so busy that we haven’t had a chance to work on the new record, but when we would do jam sessions, we always record everything. We have like all kind of cool stuff that we just need to get together and put it together. We’re leaving December 4th to go to the U.K. for three weeks. And then that ends it up for the year. So hopefully in January [we can] get in the room with Eyehategod and start finishing up writing for that.”
He also commented on the writing process:
“We’ll go to the room. Usually nine times out of 10, Mike [IX Williams, vocals] doesn’t come to practice, but we’ll go up there and we do like a blues jam or something and then we get riffs out of that. We improvise probably the first hour of our practice, and then if we have a show or something, we’ll practice the songs, but we always try and work on what we wrote in that improvisation. It’s just always been that way.
I’m not the sole writer. Our new drummer, Aaron Hill, plays guitar too, so he writes. Gary [Mader, bass] writes. I’m just the only guitar player now, but back in the day Brian [Patton, former Eyehategod guitarist] would write as well.
Eyehategod, to me, is just now starting to graduate into writing songs. Before, it was just part, break, part, break, part, done. And it’s been fun, with that style of riffing and everything, to try and up it and write songs.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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