CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Frontman: We Wanted New Album To Feel Like A Jazz Record
June 17, 2005CORROSION OF CONFORMITY mainman Pepper Keenan recently spoke to ChartAttack.com about the group's latest release, "In the Arms of God".
"This is supposed to be an organic kind of album," he said. "It's heavy, because this album is supposed to have dynamics.
"We drove the record company crazy with [it]," he admitted. "It just didn't sound the way we wanted it to. We mastered the record three different times with three different people to get it right. The first guy compressed it to sound like a heavy metal album. We wanted it to feel like a jazz record. It needed those ups and downs. Once we heard it, we were like, 'No way. We're doing it again.'
"We'd made a record that sounded so different compared to other bands. A lot of people forgot how to make classic-sounding records. Everything has to be on 10, raise it to the ceiling, that's not what we wanted. It's hard when there's this big dude who's done a million records and you're telling him that he's not got it right. He understood what we were trying to achieve though, 'cause we spent a lot of time trying to get the finer points in there.
"Hey, it worked and people get it. Every time someone says to me, 'The drums sound like cannons!' I'm like, 'No shit, motherfucker, we didn't compress the drums!' We knew we were onto something."
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