If it did that to me and the rest of the guys when they heard it, we thought for sure people are going to feel this. MC: Your voice, especially on that song, is so powerful. You can sing clear notes and transition to darker, more metal tones.
How do you achieve the control that allows you to shift your voice in that way? Are there exercises that help you do that? Draiman: There are. Putting a bit of distortion, a bit of grit, on the vocal, making it a bit more agro, doing that while maintaining melody is a very difficult technique.
Melissa Cross is my vocal coach. To do a metalcore tonality is easier to replicate consistently than to add distortion to a melodic vocal, because carrying a melody requires control. Draiman: Oh yeah. Just one push without the proper support starts the inflammation. And, if you keep those bad habits going, over time you get into serious trouble. How did that come about?
Draiman: We were on tour with Alter Bridge last cycle. It felt like, dude, we have to do this. Later that night, we ran it at sound check just to get a feel of where it would sit in our mixes and did it that night.
Our monitor engineer happened to record it. The YouTube clips of it from the crowd ended up going all over the place. It got a lot of play on its own. But we had the recording and it came out so beautifully. It was such a great moment that we had to throw it on the record. Draiman: All the songs are personal, but that one in particular is especially personal to every member of the band.
And give people a reason to keep fighting the demon. Was that a conscious choice? Draiman: When we go political, we try to make sure the knife cuts both ways. The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone. And why should we continue to perpetuate that vicious cycle?
Editorials Exclusive Horror Music. You may have missed. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. While Draiman isn't positive just how many cuts it will feature, he does anticipate the disc will include the tracks "The Night," "Run," "Deceiver," "Enough," "Inside the Fire" and "Torn.
There was a reason we went with the same producer for three records in a row — we enjoyed our relationship with him and still do. But we think we've learned everything that we need to learn, and we can do it. No offense meant to Johnny, because he's very good at what he does.
We just wanted to take a shot at it ourselves. We drive ourselves nuts, and it comes with good results, but it's difficult, because we all have very strong opinions.
If somebody feels one way about one thing and another feels another way about another thing, that could take a couple days to sort out. So it's nice being able to have all these strong opinions, because it shows you a completely different perspective some of the time, and some of the time you need it.
A producer's supposed to show you the things that you couldn't already see for yourself, but when I need something, I have Danny and Mikey, which is all I need. I wouldn't want to rewrite anything, melodically, because Patton is such a genius.
I can't outdo the guy, and I don't even want to try. I don't want to start doing on a regular basis, because if we have original material that we feel is just as strong or stronger, that's going to get priority. Artist descriptions on Last. Feel free to contribute! All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now. View all similar artists.
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