All That Remains frontman Phil Labonte was recently interviewed by Loudwire and during the course of the chat he revealed that the some outside writers were sought for the band’s upcoming album, which they have been working on as of late. He said of their plans:
“…We’re writing heavily, we’ll record and have something out in the first quarter of next year, January or February. Nothing is set in stone, those are kind of loose plans but we’re hoping to have a new single out in the fall and a tour in the fall supporting. We like to put them out every two years so if we can get one out in January, it’s kind of the plan. We have some stuff together, we’re working with a new producer, we’re doing things very differently.
I went out and worked with some other people and other writers to come up with different ideas. With All That Remains, the three primary writers are all guitar players, me, Oli [Herbert] and Mike [Martin] and we wanted to do something different, which we try to do every record – so we were like if we want to really do something different we have to change things up.
I went out came up with some ideas with some other guys, brought them back to the band and they wrote riffs for them. Basically we came up with some core progressions and they went ahead and wrote riffs around them and made them All That Remains songs.”
Given the above, it’s not surprising that Labonte recently proclaimed: “There are songs like nothing we’ve ever done before” in regards to the effort.
