Metal Anarchy

During an interview with Egor Erushin, As I Lay Dying offered an update on their new album. The band are currently finishing up the writing process.

Bassist/vocalist Chris Clancy said the following:

“We’ve got all the songs ready. We’ve got way more songs than we need, and we’ve been whittling through ’em. So we’re gonna sit down while we’re on the road, actually, and kind of do some more development to the songs. And when we get back [home after the tour], we’re gonna really start recording it. So we were gonna start recording it in February, but we thought, well, as we’re all together, we can kind of develop ideas together as a group and go from there. So it’s gonna be a busy tour, for many reasons. But we’ve got a lot of hours when we’re traveling.”

Frontman Tim Lambesis continued:

“And we tried a new method here where Chris and I put down our vocal ideas first for the demo. So it’s, like, the vocals are actually done before the instruments at this point. I mean, even though we had the instrumental demo, but then that way we can have a better idea of what songs work.”

He also commented on release plans:

“I will say this — as soon as we get home from this tour, it’s our highest priority to focus on that. We cleared everything up so that this is entirely the focus after this.”

He went on to say that a couple of tracks could have a “Shadows Are Security” sound:

“One of the songs I wrote early on in the process that I was sending to Chris, we gave the demo the title of ‘Throwback’ because it felt very much like it belonged on the ‘Shadows Are Security’ record. It’s a little bit more maybe pushed in [a] modern [direction] because I think the genre has become more technical at the time. But it fits really well. And we say, ‘Okay, we’ll just have one or two that are like this, and then let’s explore.’ Because [Chris is] writing songs from his perspective, and I’m writing from — I’m, like, the old guy, right? So we can’t expect the two of us to write exactly the same.”

Clancy added:

“But I remember when [Tim] sent me that demo and he said, ‘Oh, it might be a bit too old school.’ And I hit play. And it just gave me this [feeling of] nostalgia, like, ‘I haven’t heard anything like this in 20 years.’ It just had this whole thing — it captured you. And this makes no sense at all without hearing the song, but you didn’t really think about it as a single and doing this, that and the other. It’s, like, he just wrote the song as it wanted to be, and it was great.”

[via Blabbermouth]