Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with The Metal Voice, Into Eternity offered an update on their upcoming album. Notably, the effort is “almost done.”

Guitarist/vocalist Tim Roth said the following:

“Well, all of our albums recently, we’ve all worked with [the label] M-Theory Audio. I don’t know what we’re gonna do with this new album. We’re self-financing the new album. It’s been a long process; this has been going on for years now, really. All we have left is four songs for bass. All my guitars, drums, everything is all done. Basically, yeah, there’s not much left. Stu’s vocals will be the last thing here. So, yeah, 10 new songs. There may be 12 songs, ’cause we have a couple bonus songs as well. But, yeah, the album’s almost done, pretty much.”

“Yeah, it’s gonna be all the heavy groove riffs, some, of course, tremolo picking riffs, a lot of acoustic stuff, amazing progressive drumming, off-time signatures, clean vocals, death vocals, fast soloing, double bass, and catchy courses. All 10 songs all have a very catchy chorus. Every single song will be catchy — as far as what I consider catchy. And this is our seventh album, so people will just have to trust us on this one… But, yeah, the new album is definitely on the way here.”

Singer Stu Block continued:

“The music breathes really good too. It’s exactly what you would expect from INTO ETERNITY, really. And the cool thing about INTO ETERNITY, and I’ve talked to Tim about this before, and the whole band about this, is we can do whatever the heck we wanna do — to a certain extent. But we have a lot of rein to switch it up and do different things and explore different avenues and stuff. So I think it’s gonna be really cool.”

Roth added:

“Well, it’s got nothing to do with money at all, because, yeah, the industry is what it is, and our band is only a certain level. So, no. I think we’re in a position to do it, and we can do a lot of recording ourselves now. And like Stu said, he’s got his studio [at home]. And I record at a place that is, like, 10 blocks away from me, and he’s got $30,000 worth of preamps and I’m singing in a closet. And so, yeah, it’s been fun. We can do a lot of stuff ourselves now. But that comes from — next year will be 30 years as a band, so, yeah, we’ve been doing this for so many years and playing our instruments for so many years, we instinctively just know what we like. We’re all huge heavy metal fans. Really, I’m just a heavy metal fan, and I took it so far that I’m, like, ‘Hey, I’ve gotta make my own band,’ because I was just going crazy for heavy metal.”

Block agreed:

“We’re all fans of metal and we’re all fans of experimentation as well, I think, and just seeing where we can push the limits of what we can do and become better and all that. So I think this album will definitely push those limits as well, and I think it’ll be really, really fun and it’s gonna be a great experience. And we’re gonna be able to get a lot out, a lot of emotion out, and like I said, from what I’m hearing, the album breathes in so many different ways organically that I think people will really dig it.”

The duo went on to say a release date is still pending:

Block:

“That’s the great thing about self-financing and not being on a label, I guess. No one’s breathing down our neck, [saying] we have to get it done by this date or whatever. So we just want it to be the best possible product that we can put out.”

Roth:

“Yeah, basically, M-Theory Audio, they’ve done a lot for us too, so I’ve gotta give them props for sure. They’ve just re-released a lot of our back catalog and on special-edition vinyl and stuff, so if anyone’s interested they could just check out M-Theory Audio and they could always pick up our past albums with them. We were signed to Century Media for all those years and Marco [Barbieri] was the president, and he’s the one, after he left Century Media, he made his own label. So that’s M-Theory Audio. That’s how we hooked up with Marco. So we’ve been dealing with Marco for over 20 years as well, maybe 22 years. This goes way back.”

[via Blabbermouth]