BLACK TIDE Singer Says Band's Sound has 'Changed Completely' On New Album

September 15, 2010

Miami, Florida's BLACK TIDE is tentatively scheduled to release its sophomore album in February. The follow-up to 2008's "Light From Above" (Interscope) was recorded at Spin Studios in New York with producers Garth "GGGarth" Richardson (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, MUDVAYNE) and Josh Wilbur (LAMB OF GOD, AVENGED SEVENFOLD).

"[The producers] really pushed us," BLACK TIDE singer Gabriel Garcia, 17, told SoundSpike. "That was the best thing. Especially Josh. He was there recording all the demos during the songwriting process. We wrote 42 songs for this record. The sound changed completely, so we really found our sound with Josh. He saw it all come together and he was pushing us the whole time, the whole way."

BLACK TIDE will release a digital single on September 21 containing two new tracks, "Honest Eyes" and "Bury Me", both of which will also appear on the forthcoming album.

The band's setlist for the tour with BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, ESCAPE THE FATE and DRIVE A, which begins Thursday, September 16 in Wichita, Kansas, will include three new songs — the songs that appear on the EP and a third titled "Let It Out" — as well as four songs from "Light From Above".

"This tour's even more exciting because these songs are where we are now," Garcia told SoundSpike. "For all the [past] tours, it was kind of hard for me to be excited about playing music that we wrote when I was 13. I grew up on the tours. Not that I'm not proud of what I did before, [but] I grew out of it, you know? I was ready to make new music right off the bat. It's exciting to be able to do that."

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