Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Headbangers México, Adema vocalist/guitarist Tim Fluckey offered an update on the band’s upcoming album. According to him, the group are hoping to release the effort later this year.

Fluckey said the following:

“Last year, we signed a record deal with Cleopatra Records, which is a label up here in the U.S. And so all the music is written and done, all the pre-production’s done. So now we are getting ready to go into the studio and record the album here soon.

We have a tour coming up, so we’re gonna try to get a lot of it done before the tour, but then probably finish it after the tour — it’s a six-week tour coming up. And so it should be all ready to be out middle of the year, maybe late summertime, we’re hoping. But all the music’s there.”

He also commented on the musical direction:

“We have approached the last few years with that vibe of kind of, like, ‘Okay, what’s the best things that we’ve done in the last 20 years?’ and just try to make sure that we’re doing that. ‘Cause we have a lot of hardcore fans and we wanna make sure that we’re taking care of them.

It’s always fun to experiment in music, and we always do that, and we’ve done a couple of records where they were kind of not quite like the first records, but now we’re just really concentrating on just bringing out the Adema sound and making sure, like I said, all those things are [there], when it comes to the groove of the songs, to the lyrics of the songs, to all that stuff. So we’re excited about having a new album out.”

He also added the following about keeping the band going for 25 years:

“Now the four [core members], we’ve had a lot of changes at vocals. And Marky [Chavez], our original singer, came back and left and came back, and he essentially kind of retired. But for the four of us, this is what we were always going to do.

I think that in a lot of bands, there’s always two or three guys that, when adversity comes or when it’s not as quote-unquote amazing as it was in the beginning or whatever, they kind of just give up. The four of us, none of us have ever been that way. Ironically, it’s kind of why you get to a certain point in the first place — you kind of don’t give up; you keep on trying to evolve, write music. And that goes with anything. You’re going to suck at the start of anything. When you start playing guitar or writing music, it’s not gonna be good. But if you just keep working at it and you keep on being honest with yourself and saying, ‘Okay, I need to do this. I need to change this. This needs to happen,’ you’re gonna have so much success, you’re gonna reap the benefits of doing all that stuff. And like I said, we know how music goes. There’s only a few bands — two or three bands — out of every genre that keep going and really are always successful. So we knew at some point there was gonna be something like that, but we also knew that we were gonna have fans no matter what, and that it didn’t really matter what level you’re at or whatever. We don’t really keep track of that anyway. None of that really mattered to us. We just knew that we wanted to play music, and if people kept coming and people were still into our band, we were not gonna stop. And maybe if people weren’t into our band, we probably wouldn’t stop.”

[via Blabbermouth]