QUEENSRŸCHE Singer Discusses Forthcoming Album In New Interview

Dw. Dunphy of Popdose recently conducted an interview with QUEENSRŸCHE lead singer Geoff Tate. An excerpt from the chat follow below.

Popdose: QUEENSRŸCHE is in the beginning stages of writing and recording new music. How is that going?

Tate: It's good. We're actually working on it every day we're not on the road. But it's coming along good. We're hoping to have something out by spring sometime, that's our goal.

Popdose: What's the overall feeling for the new music? Is there a description you could apply to it, or is it still in the formative stages?

Tate: Well, when things aren't completed, it's always difficult to talk about them. And then, it's even more difficult to describe in the first place, so, you know, music is definitely a medium that's best experienced one-on-one with people because it is so difficult to describe stuff. Everybody kind of runs art through their own filters anyway, they take different things from it at different time periods. Something might be inspirational to someone at some time, then someone else might not get it at all, but might discover it later. It's all kind of very subjective stuff.

Popdose: When QUEENSRŸCHE was starting out, I assume everyone was fairly localized and was able to be together for writing and recording periods. I would assume that's not the case anymore. What are the logistics of getting everybody together to write and record?

Tate: That really hasn't changed for us. We all live about ten miles from each other, and we have a central rehearsal location we utilize as well. We're all a phone call away, really.

Popdose: That helps. I've heard stories of bands with members scattered all across the country, and their biggest obstacle is just getting together anymore.

Tate: I think the digital age has really helped with that because you can do file-sharing nowadays, and everybody's using the same kind of format, probably ProTools, and they can fly files back and forth and get a pretty good sketch of a song as a demo together. When you've got enough of those together to make an album, you can get together to rehearse at a central location to really fine-tune it all and record it. Yeah, the digital age has definitely revolutionized a lot of the recording process and, well, the whole music industry, really. The downloading thing, the economic side of it all, it's really changed that.

Read the entire interview from Popdose.