Staind will be reuniting for the upcoming Louder Than Life and Aftershock festivals, but the band currently don’t have any plans past those dates. However, during an appearance on “Rock Talk With Mitch Lafon,” frontman Aaron Lewis was asked what new material from the group might sound like if they decided to enter the studio. He responded by saying the music “would be pretty brutal.”

Lewis said the following when asked if the upcoming reunion shows will lead to more activity in 2020:
“This is definitely, ‘Let’s just get together and play a few shows and see what happens.’ And 2020 is 2020. And we’ll see. I’ve made no commitments to anything. I just wanna kind of see how this couple of shows goes.”
He also added the following about his time away from the band:
“I needed the break. I definitely needed that break. And that break turned into these avenues. And the break went long enough to where I wouldn’t mind getting out there on stage with STAIND and playing some songs that we all wrote together a long time ago.”
He went on to say that touring was a major factor in Staind’s hiatus:
“I think that it was 13, 14 years of being away from home for 10 months out of the year and singing those songs. It was just a culmination of everything. And I’m ready to play some shows [with STAIND] again.”
Lewis also said the following about hypothetical new material from the band:
“I think that if we were to go into the studio and do anything, it would be pretty brutal. It would be continuing back to how heavy we were to begin with, when ‘It’s Been Awhile’ and ‘Outside’ and ‘So Far Away’ and songs like that, that were radio songs, confused everything. ‘Cause if you came and saw us at a show, the show was a hell of a lot heavier than most of the songs that you would hear on the radio. And I would have to say that it would be going back in the direction of just heavy… I think I’ve got some pent-up stuff that would probably flow out quite nicely over some of Mike’s heavy riffs.”
[via Blabbermouth]