Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with 96.7 KCAL-FM’s Radioactive MikeZ, Butcher Babies singer Heidi Shepherd offered an update on the band’s new album. She says the effort will be released this year.

Shepherd said the following:

“There’s a whole album behind [‘Lost In Your Touch‘]. So, yeah, this year there will be a brand new BUTCHER BABIES album. It is dunzo, it is finished. And we’ve been working on it for a while.

When we released a song called ‘Sincerity‘ a little bit back, the idea was just an EP with Judge & Jury. And we were having so much fun working with them, and we had so much to say, and I was just basically purging all my emotions on to paper and putting it into these songs. And Henry’s [Flury, BUTCHER BABIES guitarist] in the studio writing super fast to keep up. We were off tour finally. It’s been on tour, off tour, on tour, off tour, in the studio, out of the studio. So we had a little bit of time at home and we just started just writing like crazy. And we talked to our homies at Judge & Jury and said, ‘Hey, do you guys wanna maybe turn this into an entire album?’ And they said, ‘Yes.’ So we held off on all the other releases and decided to just create a whole album.”

She went on to discuss the record’s lyrics:

“There’s 12 songs on this album. And we’re so excited for people to hear it. A lot of it is in the vein of things that happened in my life from 25 years ago till now.

I was married when I was really young. And I’ve never really talked about it. I’ve been married and divorced. I don’t talk about it. I never really have, but I think now I can talk about it. There’s a song on there about the exact moment that [my then-husband and I] both decided this was over, and the exact moment driving in his truck through the mountains of Utah and decided that this is done. And so that exact moment is on there. And that was 20-something years ago. And then there’s a song on there about a really special person in my past life who has since passed away. There’s a lot of really special things on this album, so I’m very excited to unleash it to everybody and let everyone hear these stories.”

She continued when asked if it will have a mixture of “melodic songs and brutally heavy songs”:

“Yeah, we still got the mix for you. There’s gonna be a song coming out. We have the single after ‘Lost In Your Touch’ lined up already, and that one will be a neck breaker for you. [Laughs]”

She also added:

“These songs — even ‘Sincerity’ and ‘Lost In Your Touch’, they still hit so heavy live too. And there’s really heavy parts to, I think, every song on the album.”

[via Blabbermouth]