This coming week I will be flying up to San Francisco to do a video shoot with Kill Ritual. I’m really excited for a number of reasons….
- This will be the first time that I’ve met my bandmates. Crazy, huh? Yeah. In this day and age of the internet I can do recordings all over the world. I remember meeting Ged Rylands for the first time maybe a year after we recorded Dreamworld together. Long gone are the days of sitting in warehouses jamming for hours on end. Is it something I miss? Definitely. You get a good sense of someone’s character by spending time with them. Eye contact, hanging out, etc. So in todays music world I do the best I can to communicate with everyone over the phone, skype, email. After a while you get a sense of who the person is. The flip side is that you can do a lot more in a lot less time and you aren’t limited to location. For instance, Kill Ritual has members in LA, San Francisco and Vegas. That never could have happened 10 years ago. As far as Kill Ritual goes, Steven and I hit it off pretty quickly during the writing process of this album which we started back in February. My hat goes off to him because he had actually done this album months prior with the previous singer so for him to be going through this with an new guy, new sound, new lyrics…. whew. Let’s just say it would have been very difficult for me to do that and I’m grateful that he never let me hear the other vocals. I naturally would have had that it my head and wouldn’t have been able to come at it with fresh ears. He didn’t have that option. It took him a few to get used to the new sound after listening to the old sound for so long. All I can say is this album is going to be epic.
- We’ll be in the famous Soundwave Studios in Oakland where so many bands have played that the list is daunting. Bands like; Testament, Metallica, Exodus, Primus, Tesla, Faith No More, etc…. etc…. to infinitum.
- The video will be shot by Mike Sloat who has shot video for Testament, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Staind, Tom Waits, etc. We’ll be up there for a couple of days for the shoot and hanging out together.
We’ve got labels behind us on this that we will announce shortly, with album release dates and tours in the works. So keep your calendars handy and I hope to stop by your hometown soon.
Peace,
David
