Theory Of A Deadman's New Album Bringing Back 'Darkness & Angst'

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    Theory of a Deadman have a new album called Savagescoming out and from what we’ve heard so far, it’s going to be a killer record. FrontmanTyler Connollyrecently caught up withFull Metal Jackie to discuss the new record, their writing process and the direction of the album!

    Tyler, generally theres a three-year interval between Theory of a Deadman albums. Obviously touring cycles account for much of that time, but how much of that three years since the last album were spent writing and recording this new one?

    Id say forever, is that a time frame? Does that work? Forever and a day. This was a long one. This took a long time to finish. I would say at least a year from start to finish. It was quite a while. We usually go in and are out pretty quick. It was worth it. I think we figured something out on this record where taking our time was way better than just trying to get a record out so we could go on tour again. It was way better. We made a great record.

    It sounds like you became a recluse to make this album, holding up in your home studio and lyrically immersing yourself in much different subject matter than before. What prompted that change in direction?

    A little bit of boredom. Probably the fact that I actually grow tired of writing the cliche Theory of a Deadman songs. I think we built this niche for ourselves in rock where we kind of became known as this type of rock band. Its funny, I did an interview and people would be like: Tyler, youre kind of known for the party rock. Im like, What? I think something in me on this record was like, You know, I want to write some songs like I used to write. On our first records, the songs are very dark and metaphoric and I kind of got away from that. So on this new one I went back. Our first single Drown and quite a few other songs, theyre definitely a lot darker. The whole band was digging it and I think our fans will be very happy with the fresh sound approach.

    You said Savages brings Theory of a Deadman back to darkness and angst. Why are those emotional elements so important to this band?

    We always talk about the fact that its our fifth record. Five records is a lot of years for us to be touring and writing records and songs. We notice a lot of other bands, when they get to this part of their career, they become very complacent and you start seeing their albums and style becomes a little boring. Some of my favorite bands, by the time they get to their later records, you can tell theyve let off the gas a bit. Theyve gotten content with their touring and fans. For us, it was the opposite. We really wanted to do something that sounded like it was a band coming out of the gate with their first album. Theres some serious motivation on this record rather than us just sitting back and being like, we got it made man, its all good. Well just go out there play some shows. It felt wrong to feel that way. Its good. I think all bands should do that, to tell you the truth.



    Check out the rest of the interview at Loudwire


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Theory of a Deadman have a new album called Savagescoming out and from what we’ve heard so far, it’s going to be a killer record. FrontmanTyler Connollyrecently caught up withFull Metal Jackie to discuss the new record, their writing process and the direction of the album!

Tyler, generally theres a three-year interval between Theory of a Deadman albums. Obviously touring cycles account for much of that time, but how much of that three years since the last album were spent writing and recording this new one?

Id say forever, is that a time frame? Does that work? Forever and a day. This was a long one. This took a long time to finish. I would say at least a year from start to finish. It was quite a while. We usually go in and are out pretty quick. It was worth it. I think we figured something out on this record where taking our time was way better than just trying to get a record out so we could go on tour again. It was way better. We made a great record.

It sounds like you became a recluse to make this album, holding up in your home studio and lyrically immersing yourself in much different subject matter than before. What prompted that change in direction?

A little bit of boredom. Probably the fact that I actually grow tired of writing the cliche Theory of a Deadman songs. I think we built this niche for ourselves in rock where we kind of became known as this type of rock band. Its funny, I did an interview and people would be like: Tyler, youre kind of known for the party rock. Im like, What? I think something in me on this record was like, You know, I want to write some songs like I used to write. On our first records, the songs are very dark and metaphoric and I kind of got away from that. So on this new one I went back. Our first single Drown and quite a few other songs, theyre definitely a lot darker. The whole band was digging it and I think our fans will be very happy with the fresh sound approach.

You said Savages brings Theory of a Deadman back to darkness and angst. Why are those emotional elements so important to this band?

We always talk about the fact that its our fifth record. Five records is a lot of years for us to be touring and writing records and songs. We notice a lot of other bands, when they get to this part of their career, they become very complacent and you start seeing their albums and style becomes a little boring. Some of my favorite bands, by the time they get to their later records, you can tell theyve let off the gas a bit. Theyve gotten content with their touring and fans. For us, it was the opposite. We really wanted to do something that sounded like it was a band coming out of the gate with their first album. Theres some serious motivation on this record rather than us just sitting back and being like, we got it made man, its all good. Well just go out there play some shows. It felt wrong to feel that way. Its good. I think all bands should do that, to tell you the truth.



Check out the rest of the interview at Loudwire


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