The Acacia Strain guitarist Daniel Laskiewicz sat down with Absolutepunk.net to dicuss the bands recent signing with Rise Records, their new material and more.
Speaking on why the band signed with Rise, he commented:
“As far as labels and all that stuff is concerned, there’s never really a right decision, you know? A label is a label. We’ve been with Prosthetic pretty much from the beginning. They did what they could for us and at the end of the day you have to sit down with the rest of the dudes and think about what the best thing for the band is.
The biggest thing for us moving to Rise, I guess we can see more of a longevity with this band. If you’re in a situation where you don’t see the band thriving and being in the right environment, then what good is that for the band? You know what I mean. I guess it was something fresh, because we’re all getting old [laughs].”
He also revealed in the interview that he will be producing, engineering and mixing the bands forthcoming album himself. Zeuss (Shadows Fall, Chimaira) will handle the mastering duties.
He had the following to say about that:
“…This time around, since we’re on the whole try something new thing, we have such a good sense of where we want to be production wise and I’ve pretty much produced every record up until now.
So, let’s do it. That’s gonna be a good change, plus our biggest thing is… and this goes to everyone that said, ‘Ugh, you signed to Rise, you’re going to fucking wear blush and finger each other,’ or whatever. That’s why we’re doing it. We want absolute, complete creative control.
There’s no better way of doing it than that. If you have somebody in the band that can record and mix, do it.??”
The bands new album is presently being lined up for an October release date. In the meantime, a new song titled “Servant In The Place Of Truth” will arrive online sometime next week.
