Thy Art Is Murder have completed writing a new album and are mapping out plans to record it. Guitarist Andy Marsh recently discussed it, the return of their vocalist CJ McMahon to the fold and the state of deathcore with Metal Wani. Regarding the album, he offered;
“We’ve finished writing. We got together a couple of months ago, Sean [Delander] and I, and we spent a few weeks writing after a tour and we did it, like in three or four weeks.
We’ve written a record, now we just got to record the damn thing. We’re excited for it… When we think about our music, obviously, in our heads, we think about CJ‘s voice singing over it—so having him coming back, at the end of us writing a record, it made us excited to go and record it and hear it the way we imagined hearing it.
The fans, obviously, their idea of the band is with CJ singing in the band. We share that vision, that idea, also. Our band is like a small family and the way we imagine hearing our own music and how we craft the product is with that end goal in mind. So, it’s definitely exciting to know we can get the sound we want.”
While he was unsure of the recording schedule, he did mention that he hopes to have it out this year. Given that it’s become a hot topic in the deathcore scene as of late, he also went on to state that he doesn’t expect the band to ever introduce clean vocals into their craft, offering in part: “that’s one avenue that is definitely not open to our band.”
