Every Time I Die have just dropped their new albumFrom Parts Unknown and it’s a killer record! Vocalist Keith Buckley took some time out to catch up withLoudwire to talk about the new record, how the band go about writing and how their awesome new videos came together.
Check it out below!
From Parts Unknown is the new album. Ive always been so surprised on how quickly you put out new material.
Weve got a pretty good refresh rate going on.
And it never seems rushed, it never feels like you put something out just to meet a contract deadline. What can you tell me about the writing process? Are you guys just constantly writing?
No, actually, were not, and I think thats kind of why were able to keep doing it like we do it. We kind of just let things build up and build up and build up in between records and, you know, youre touring so youre collecting ideas and experiences and stuff and then once we agree upon a time frame that were going to write, you just kind of submerge yourself in it completely.
When we start writing, then its pretty much 24 hours a day. This time we had given ourselves some time off January and February to start writing, or at least get our ideas together, but then we got an offer to do a tour in Europe with A Day to Remember and were like, Ahh, we cant pass that up! So were like, What are we going to do? The Every Time I Die mentality is do both, do it all. So we went out on tour and wrote while we were on tour with them which meant, you know, in the back rooms and the bus that we were sharing with The Story So Far, so it was very hectic and both cramped and crowded, but you know, like I said, once youre in it, youre in it.
Every Time I Die have always had a very tight sound ever since Last Night in Town. Since then, not much has changed in that respect. When it comes to the recording process, how would you compare making Last Night in Town to From Parts Unknown?
“I think that were fully back to all of these different tempos; more chaotic but its also like we know how to control the chaos now."I think that back then we had no idea what was going on. We had no control over anything. Every idea that we had was out there, we were putting it in songs. There was no structure, there was no arrangement, there was no foresight, there was no long term goal. It was just if we have an idea lets put it on the record. Put this riff after this riff, after this riff, after this riff. So I think that weve kind of just refined it and that were just a little more aware of how everything feels as a whole picture instead of just all of these little pieces being stacked on top of each other.
But that being said, I do feel like this recording process was a lot more like just throwing caution to the wind and trying different things that maybe we havent tried before. I feel like for a little while there starting with Gutter Phenomenon our sound was getting more refined, you know what I mean? It felt a little less dynamic, but I think Ex Lives kind of brought that energy back and I think that now with From Parts Unknown, I think that were fully back to all of these different tempos; more chaotic but its also like we know how to control the chaos now.
I can absolutely hear that in Thirst. Does that track represent the feel of the album?
I think it does and it was perfect because its short, its got a ton of content in it, its got a mosh part, but its fast. I really think that its the perfect spokesman for the record. The records short, the records heavy, the records fast and so is that song. So I think thats like the microcosm.
When it comes to music videos, you guys have so many great ones. I feel like there are some bands that are proving that the art of the music video is not dead, even though MTV basically doesnt exist anymore. How did the Thirst clip come together?
We got the word from Epitaph that we had a certain amount of time to do a video. We knew the song that we wanted to make a video for, which was Decayin With the Boys. But when we started talking to our friend Doug, who has done a bunch of our DVDs before, hes like, well Thirst is so short, why dont we try to put that into the video, almost like its two songs together as one?
So we got this idea of these guys going to a house party where were playing. So, Thirst became the preface to the next video. So its the story of these two Beavis and Butthead dudes who get psyched about an Every Time I Die show and they start partying and they dont even make it to the party, and then the next video starts with the party that they missed.I want to incorporate them into everything. The crazy thing is, they never knew each other. They knew of each other, just from being in Buffalo, its a small town. But they met that day and it was like soul mates. Theyre now really good friends and that chemistry they have is for real. Now I really want that energy around us a lot, so I would like to have more videos with those guys.
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