"Atonement" was released in August 2019 via Metal Blade Records in the U.S. When you come see a band live like us, it is a little different than a record. He's on board of that too - sort of getting more of a live feel to what we're doing. So I think this next record will be a push-and-pull, 'cause Adam is very much a perfectionist with the way he likes things to sound.
To me, I'm all about pushing away from that. I think metal, over the years, has become very compressed and very manufactured. It's rock and roll, man - it shouldn't be perfect. So the less that can happen, I'm into it. "I don't like the studio fixes, I don't like the tuning - I hate all that shit. "Live music shouldn't be perfect," Leach added. We kind of wanna bring that live feeling, that live sound to this next record… I want that energy to be there. And then us getting into a room and jamming on that shit together, which we haven't done in years, that's the vibe we're going for. It's moving very quickly for me, and it just feels fresh it feels new. "So my approach to this record is I wake up in the morning and I write lyrics out of the sleep. "I've always been really hard on myself - a perfectionist, if you will - and I think it's hindered me in the demo-making process," he explained. Some of these demos I'm getting ready to send to the guys, if you would listen to them, most people would probably laugh 'cause they're just me going nuts, just trying to get the idea out quick and then we'll worry about re-recording it and polishing it and sort of making it sound KILLSWITCH-y. So that's kind of what we're all thinking."Įlaborating on the time table for the completion of the next KILLSWITCH ENGAGE LP, Leach told Heavy: "I'm personally setting goals for me to create quick, very emotional, raw stuff for the demos and then probably taking a little more time, once we get to the studio, to polish that up and make it sound really good. "So I think there's a real spirit within us to put out new material and then tour on that new record come next year, hopefully. We want that raw, fresh feeling, so a lot of these demos I'm trying to through quickly just to get the energy and then we'll sort of dissect them as new get into the studio," he explained.
Maybe it's just time to get your hands dirty and talk about some of the harder-to-deal-with topics, and that's kind of what I've been doing lately."īack in June 2022, Leach told Australia's Heavy that he and his bandmates would try to get the new KILLSWITCH ENGAGE LP "wrapped up and done quickly, because we want it to be a record that's not gonna take a lot of time to create. You don't always have to sugarcoat things and let people know there's gonna be hope. And when I got honest with myself, I, 'You know what? There is a lot to be pissed off about.' And maybe that's the route maybe that's the good therapeutic way to deal with it. I think once I really sort of dug into myself, I realized that there was a lot that I was not tapping in to. So I've kind of taken a turn for a little bit more of a darker topic than I initially had hoped for, but I think it's necessary. But it's kind of turned into anger, it's kind of turned into frustration, it's kind of turned into seeing the greater deceptions of everything that's going on, the struggles of humanity. On the topic of the lyrical inspiration for the new KILLSWITCH ENGAGE material, Jesse said: "Initially, for me, I really wanted to put out something that was healing, something that could help people cope. But, again, I do believe that it's necessary at our stage in our career to really just kind of get all of our heads together to make sure that this record is gonna be what we all feel is a good representation of who we are right now." It's the first time, really, I think we've done that. 'Cause we all got together and had a meeting, and all of us just kind of gave our input on everything, and I took notes. I've actually rewritten a bunch of stuff. And then I'm revisiting a lot of the lyrics. Regarding where he and his KILLSWITCH ENGAGE are right now with respect to the writing process, Jesse said: "We're solidifying a lot, but there's still some back-and-forth and looking at parts and rewriting the music. So that process has been a little arduous but I think necessary because we don't wanna put out something that people are gonna go, 'Oh, yeah.
And making sure that it's fresh we're not repeating ourselves. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "The album is… taking a lot longer than, I think, any of us anticipated, because there's a lot of quality control going on. In a new interview with Pete Bailey of Primordial Radio, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE frontman Jesse Leach spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the follow-up to the band's 2019 "Atonement" LP.
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