Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview on the Podioslave Podcast, TRUSTcompany vocalist/guitarist Kevin Palmer and bassist Josh Moates offered an update on their new album. The band currently have five songs written for the effort.

Palmer said the following:

“Yeah, we’ve been writing. The goal for us is new music. It’s been an amazing process getting back in the band room again and just hanging out and writing. It feels like the old days, because we’re just sitting there just writing music. The problem has been that since our schedules are so much tighter than they used to be, we don’t get to get in there as much as we want to. So once a week, and then if somebody’s got something going on that turns into, we can only get together two times this month or three times this month. So it’s been a slower process, but it has been a fun process.

We’ve got — I don’t know — five songs, maybe. Here’s the crazy thing too: we’ve been having this conversation of, like, how do we release music now? Back in the day there wasn’t Spotify and all this stuff. We just put an album out. Do you do singles? Do you do it on an EP? But we grew up in this world of albums, since we really wanna release an album. So we’re kind of going down that rabbit hole now. How do you release? How many do we release? But the writing process has been so much fun for us.”

Moates continued:

“And it’s so different now, because I’m not an engineer by any means whatsoever, but I do have a universal audio recording little setup that has like four inputs, so I can record the drums and then Kevin can overlay the guitars and stuff and I can take it home and do bass. So we can actually hear, for the first time in our entire life, a really pretty decent demo of what it could sound like, whereas before we would — I don’t know — record on … a little tape machine and try to do that. But now we can actually hear what it maybe would sound like in a studio — obviously, way worse, but he actually could hear it and piece it together and I can now write bass parts after the vocals and so I’m not stepping on his vocals and Jason [Singleton, drums] could do drum parts that aren’t interfering, whatever it is. It’s such a different experience now, ’cause we can actually demo in our band room at no cost. And that’s been really fun to layer stuff. And we didn’t have that before, and now we get to do that. So that’s exciting to me, is that part of it too.”

Palmer also added the following about release plans:

“The goal for us is to put something out hopefully early next year. Definitely next year, but hopefully early.”

Moates also commented on the musical direction:

“We don’t have labels. We don’t have to answer to anybody, so we could do whatever. Obviously, with the safety net of who we are as a band. We’re not trying to be something we’re not; we’re just trying to do what we’ve always done. The songs do sound a little different than [TRUST COMPANY’s debut album, 2002’s] ‘[The] Lonely Position [Of Neutral]’, but that’s just how it is. But we write the same way and we’re not trying to do anything outside of what we do. But it’s heavy. There’s some heavy stuff. I’m really excited about what we have so far. I got to hear some of the vocal stuff, and I’m really excited about it. So it’s not just, like, ‘Well, let’s just put something out.’ We’ve been working really diligently. There’s a lot of cool stuff. I’m really excited.”

[via Blabbermouth]