DevilDriver's nieuwe album
Het uit Californië (VS) afkomstige DevilDriver heeft de titel van hun aankomende vijfde album bekend gemaakt: "Beast". Het album is opgenomen in de Sonic Ranch studio met producer Mark Lewis (Trivium, Chimaira, All That Remains) en niemand minder dan producer Andy Sneap (Machine Head, Megadeth, Exodus, Arch Enemy) zal de mix verzorgen. De band heeft 14 tracks opgenomen, waarvan er waarschijnlijk 11 of 12 op het album zullen verschijnen.
De mogelijke tracklist:
* Dead to Rights
* Hardened
* Bring The Fight (To the Floor)
* Shitlist
* Talons Out (Teeth Sharpened)
* Blur
* You Make Me Sick (Sacred Secrets)
* The Blame Game
* Coldblooded
* Crowns of Creation
* Lend Myself to the Night
In een interview heeft frontman Dez Fafara het volgende commentaar gegeven: "The record is extreme, and it attacks from start to finish. If you liked 'The Last Kind Words', this is like that on steroids and crank, driving a Buick Skylark 200 miles an hour straight to Vegas. I felt like I was waking up and experiencing a moment of clarity that brought out all these pissed off, negative emotions, It's an all-out release of pain. It's been a beast of a year and a half, and it's still going."
Drummer John Boecklin vertelde het volgende over de muzikale richting van het album: "It's interesting to me — it's not the fastest shit we have done, nor the slowest, [but it] just [has] lots of groove. But to me, when people say 'it's got groove,' I think it's a nice way of saying simple and boring these days. We wanted to avoid this. Our record has a great contrast of dark riffs, stomp bouncing drums with the right amount of blasts and double bass, and outstanding vocal delivery from Dez that takes it past your average approach of the metal attempt. I'm not talking about reinventing the wheel or nothing. I just think our new album sits in its own corner from any of our other albums."