ATHEIST Frontman Goes Acoustic

June 18, 2010

Vocalist Kelly Shaefer of reactivated seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST has issued the following update:

"After a year's worth of shredding and writing non-stop ATHEIST metal, in the last 10 weeks I wrote a bunch of tunes that are very far from metal. They are just sketches with friends, but for those with an open mind, I welcome you to check them out and your feedback is welcome. They are just demos, and mostly acoustic, [so] don't bitch at me about it, hahaha.

"I have plenty of metal for you all when [the next] ATHEIST [studio album] hits, and recording starts July 5th, but for now something different...a calm before the storm perhaps.

"So this is the new site where I will post all of these new collabs with piano players, sax and cello players and all my friends who enjoy writing music of many different colors.

"I do plan on making an album's worth of material in 2012 that will be a 'Kelly' record, and it will be all over the place style-wise."

ATHEIST will enter LedBelly studios in Atlanta, Georgia on July 5 to begin recording its long-awaited, as-yet-untitled fourth album. Engineering the session will be Matt Washburn. Additionally, the band has secured the services of one of metal's most significant talents of the past decade, Jason Suecof (TRIVIUM, CHIMAIRA, DEVILDRIVER),to handle the mixing of what promises to be a modern classic from the pioneers of technical metal.

ATHEIST's forthcoming album is tentatively scheduled for a late 2010 release and will be followed by a world tour in 2011.

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