Metal Anarchy

During a recent appearance on the Hardlore podcast, Hatebreed guitarist Frank Novinec offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the effort is “pretty much done.”

Novinec said the following:

“[It’s] coming out this year, yeah. Most, of it’s pretty much — I mean, it’s done.”

He also discussed the group’s latest single “Make The Demons Obey”:

“The nice thing about in this era — I was telling somebody the other day that’s not in the music business like we are — the nice thing about the way things are rolled out now, I think, is you can drop a single even if you have the whole record done, and be, like, ‘All right, now there’s all this time’, where you can really review what you’ve done and you could really change something that you didn’t like or even make another song and all that. It’s not, like, ‘Okay, there’s the record, there’s the two videos. Here’s what are supposed to be the singles. And that’s it.’ So it’s nice to be able to drop the single, which we had a great response for. We love the song. As far as the band’s concerned, we’re real happy with ‘Make The Demons Obey’. And we’ll probably leak another one here soon. And there’ll probably be proper videos coming after that.”

He continued when asked if he has a major role in the songwriting process:

“No. I think I have one riff on one song. It was always [former bassist] Chris [Beattie] and [vocalist] Jamey [Jasta] writing the music. That’s it. From day one, it’s Chris and Jamey. They’re the guys [who wrote all the music] from day one, for the most part.”

He also added the following when asked if Beattie’s departure changed the songwriting dynamic:

“[Guitarist] Wayne [Lozinak], I think, is… We all have our ideas about songs. Songs are presented, [and then we say], ‘Hey, I think we should change this,’ ‘Hey, I think this riff should go longer.’

I’m not a groove dude like that when it comes to writing. I’m not somebody that’s trying to show up and break something that’s not broken.”

[via Blabbermouth]