Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with 96.7 KCAL-FM’s Radioactive MikeZ, Shadows Fall’s Jonathan Donais offered an update on the band’s upcoming album. According to him, the effort is “done.”

Donais said the following:

“[The new album is] done, but [we’ve] just gotta go through everything and figure out the right times and people’s schedules and stuff [before we release it].”

He also discussed the musical direction:

“When I was writing it, I tried to only get influenced by the bands that I was listening to when I started Shadows Fall. So I listened to a lot of thrash, a lot of ’90s death metal, and I was just trying to get that vibe again when I was 17. Like, why did I wanna start Shadows Fall? What was making me wanna do it? And then I’m listening with kind of new ears, ’cause that was a million years ago. So I was listening to these bands with a new perspective. I was, like, ‘Wow, shit, this stuff’s still really cool.’ And then I was just excited, because we hadn’t done anything in a while, so it was exciting again.”

He also added:

“I didn’t think we were gonna do any new music. I figured we were gonna get together for our reunion show, and that’d be it. Maybe down the line we’d do another show. But when we started rehearsing for it — I play guitar all day. I don’t have any kids. While my wife’s at work, I sit around and play guitar, so I have millions of riffs. So while we’re rehearsing the old stuff, I just start throwing riffs out there, and of course the guys jump in and start jamming. Like, ‘What’s that?’ I’m, like, ‘Ah, something new.’ And then they’re, like, ‘Oh, that’s cool.’ And then before you know it, we’re just writing songs.”

[via Blabbermouth]