Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Scott Davidson of Rebel Radio 92.5 FM, Trouble singer Kyle Thomas offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the group have “about eight to ten songs” in the works.

Thomas said the following:

“So, on and off for several years now — I mean, probably better than a decade — there’s been pre-production very slowly just kind of creeping down the line here. So, I don’t know — there’s about eight to ten songs, maybe, on this thing. And they’ve been trickling the recorded music versions of them to me so that I can get myself in gear and started [on vocals].”

He continued when asked about release plans:

“I couldn’t give you a timeline on it. I’m always scared to do that anyway, because it seems like every time you say something’s gonna happen at a certain time, it doesn’t. I think more importantly, we’re busy, we’re working on it, and that’s something that really hasn’t happened for a long time. But, yeah, we’re ready to get this thing going and give everybody a quality TROUBLE record. It’s been a long time.”

He also discussed lyrical inspirations:

“Well, I think it’s safe to say most of what I write comes off my sleeve. I like to write from my life experiences. That doesn’t mean that everything that I write has something to do with my life in particular. It might be current events that I’m looking at, it might be something that happened to someone I know that’s inspired me to jot something down. So, it’s never really one thing, but I do try to at least have most of the lyrical content have some meat to it. But on another hand, there are times when I’ll scat into a microphone when I’m listening to a new piece of music and whatever comes out, if it sounds cool, I’ll try to find words that match what I scatted. But you try to keep it interesting, you try to not get into a pattern. I think more than anything, you don’t wanna be in a pattern that’s looping the same thing over and over again. I think that gets a little boring, perhaps.

I used to work with a producer when I was younger, and he had a word that he used when we were experimenting, and he liked to call it ‘blowing things up.’” Like, ‘Let’s blow this up. Let’s blow that up.’ And all that really meant was, ‘Let’s experiment with this idea and see if it sticks.’

For me, my passion is a lot more aligned with songwriting and production and the magic that you make with your music in that regard, more so than trying to be a virtuoso at this or that. That’s less important to me than the quality of the craftsmanship of the material that you’re working on. So, I don’t know — maybe one day I’ll figure out the songwriting enough to be able to live off of it. But that’s definitely more important than just trying to be killer at something.”

[via Blabbermouth]