SHADOWS FALL Frontman Says 'You Can't Steal The Live Experience' Via Internet

The Scream Queen recently conducted an interview with vocalist Brian Fair of Massachusetts metallers SHADOWS FALL. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Scream Queen: Are you guys working on a new album?

Brian: You know, we're just going to be touring until the end of this run and then probably heading home for a little bit with some time off and then start working on it. I can't imagine us not really getting down to doing anything until early next year. By the end of the year, we'll start writing some stuff; start like demos in early 2011.

The Scream Queen: I heard that Matt [Bachand, guitar] is doing a side project?

Brian: Yeah, actually, Matt and Jon [Donais, guitar] have a little… it's like, like a… it's still kind of metal, it's a little more on the rock side, and a lot less thrashy, it would probably be a little too rock 'n' roll for the SHADOWS FALL stuff, but they're working with Derek from UNEARTH on drums, and they're just looking for a singer right now.

The Scream Queen: I've been reading several rumors saying that this new side project may be the end of SHADOWS FALL. Can you clarify that for me?

Brian: I doubt it. Yeah, they've been working on this for a little while so — everyone always has side projects.

The Scream Queen: You guys have a DVD coming out?

Brian: We don't know the release date yet, but we're hoping for the end of October, but we just found a bunch of other footage that we're actually trying to include now. So, it was shot live in the Philippines, in Manila. It was a big festival, you know, like huge show, multi cameras, all that stuff. So, and then there should be like a whole other bonus thing. We did a trip to Korea, we want to include some of that and a few other things, so trying to get it all together to come out hopefully in October at the latest, but we'll see what happens. Maybe a little sooner.

The Scream Queen: How do you feel the camera captured your stage presence and energy?

Brian: You know, it does what it can do, you're never going to really be able to get all of the energy of a live show, which is also what the Internet can't steal, you can't steal the live experience, but at least you can… It's a way to showcase what we're all about on stage. So, it's a real cool set list of mixes and stuff, it was the first time we had ever played "War", it was the first time we'd ever played "Public Execution", but also we played stuff from the first album, too. So, it was kind of a cool set list that way and just, we had tons of pyro and explosions and all of that stuff, so it's definitely cool; it came out pretty cool.

Read the entire interview from The Scream Queen.