How is the songwriting approached differently with this band than Coal Chamber?
DF: In this band, we sit and we jam, you know? Coal Chamber never really did that. We sit and we jam together, and we work on songs, and it makes the unit tight like that. As well as, I take the songs home and work on them myself. With Coal Chamber it was much different. They would just bring me music and say, “This is the music and this is the route that we’re going,” and if I would say, “Well, I think it should be this, or I think it should be that,” they would say, “Well, this is the music, write lyrics to it.” So, it’s very different with this band. I want to keep it heavy, but at the same point, it’s not like anybody would turn in a pop song because everybody is on the same page with what we want to do musically. You know, we want to get heavier even. I think our next album is going to be extremely brutal. MU: The production is really great on the album. It sounds really crystal clear, yet it’s got that brutal sound to it, almost like old school death metal – kind of like a “best
