DevilDriver have plans for a new double album and expect to enter the studio in June/July to begin tracking the effort. According to frontman Dez Fafara, the band have 48 songs written with plans to whittle it down to around 20-22 tracks for the album. The two halves of the effort are expected to arrive a year apart with the first due in 2019 and the second in 2020.
Fafara spoke of their plans in the recent interview with Metal Wani:
“We’re writing the record of our lives right now—that I can tell you. And making no bones about it, this will be the record of our career. This will be record that other artists judge us, as well as themselves, on once they hear this.”
He continued of the band’s aggressive approach to releasing material, which includes their forthcoming outlaw country covers album “Outlaws ‘Til The End“ (out July 06th):
“I used to get a record every year from my favorite bands, and even two a year sometimes from bands like KISS. So, you know what? We’re kicking it up. We’re not gonna rely on this three-to-four-year-plan that bands are doing. It used to be where you had to go away for a year in order to let the fans catch up to you and this and that, and it is not that way anymore—you need to get art out and you need to be out in everyone’s face and you need to be touring, and we’re getting ready to kick that up in a big way.
And that’s why the last two years, we’ve really taken time off as DevilDriver. I mean, we’ve only done probably three shows in the United States this year, and we’ll only do a handful this year at all. So when we do start, it’s gonna get ready to go.”
He later added:
“I have three young sons and they’re huge music lovers and they get a song a week, a record every six months, a record every year from their favorite artists. I don’t know why metal has taken on this stance of, ‘We’re gonna give you a record every three years, every four years,’ or Tool, every eight, ten years. I don’t know.
Look, I know Maynard [James Keenan] and I think that record’s probably gonna be worth the wait, to tell you the truth. But in my circumstances and in every other circumstance that I see, bands need to be putting out a record every 17 to 18 months and they need to be doing this religiously in order to build their following and in order to actually raise the bar on the music that they’re making.
So we’re very excited to do this. We have Napalm Records that has been behind us one hundred percent with everything we’ve bit off, and they really are looking forward to this double album staggered release that we’re gona start to record in June and July.”
[via Blabbermouth]
