Don't want to give away too much especially this early in the writing stage, but one thing I can guarantee is that there is PLENTY of growling vocals on this next album. Trust me, we're not going softer, quite the contrary.
The whole apostrophe thing.....man it's crazy how much people make comments about that. It's a fucking death metal band name, man. Who cares about proper punctuation? LOL How many band names are improperly spelled and such all the time, and yet we catch so much hell because of a gay apostrophe. Technically the apostrophe would make it correct grammatically, yes. If people are letting the lack of the apostrophe really bother them, then they need to find something else to do, seriously haha (not meaning you, Madu). Sometimes it just gets frustrating when I get so many questions about things like a missing apostrophe, but not questions about the songwriting or guitar playing or something, haha. People just focus on weird shit when it comes to us, I dunno.
As for the whole "shaking the doom" tag thing....ah we've covered that pretty much in the past, but basically we're not trying to turn our backs on sounding doomy or moody, not at all. Just tired of constantly being pigenonholed into such a specific category that doesn't really suit alot of the music we play now. Like I said before, if we want to write some fast songs or parts, we will do it, regardless of whatever category people have sort of forced us into over the years. It's funny that people will fight vehemently about bands like Opeth not being doom, but then they'll insist that we're totally a doom band. Meanwhile those same people will also say that we're sounding alot like Opeth and so on. It's just alot of contradictions and shit that doesn't make sense. The bottom line is, from here on out, we're going to write and play whatever it is that we truly enjoy doing, and if it doesn't quite fit the "genre" requirements that people think we ought to, then too bad. I care about songs being either good or bad, not whether they're doom or death or goth or whatever other tag there is.
So anyhow, no it's not as if we're saying "screw doom metal, we're rebelling" haha We just enjoy aspiring to be one of those bands that defies categorization, though someone will still come up with some crazy ass tag for what it is we do!
