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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Guitarist Checks In With Songwriting Update

February 14, 2006

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD guitarist Jed Simon has issued the following update on the songwriting process for the group's follow-up to last year's "Alien":

"[The songwriting is] going great, got too many song ideas, haha! About 6 are complete, and the rest are very close...

"Most of you probably know that Dev [SYL guitarist/vocalist Devin Townsend] and his merry men [THE DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND] are going on tour for a couple weeks with some very fine Swedish friends of ours, OPETH. So, during that time, the rest of us are going to be perfecting our song parts, 'tweaking' the little stuff, and writing a few more...this is when the barn doors get blown off! Dev has also got a couple ideas he's going to work on while he's out on tour, so when he gets back, we'll show him ours and vice-versa, and then we'll have WAY too many songs!!! Which is a good thing, because if it turns out that one song isn't 'feeling' right in the studio, there are more to choose from...or we can 'chop and blend' a part in or out, if a song just needs 'a little something.'

"The sun is out in Vancouver...finally...it's been like 2 months of solid rain... depressing as hell, man. I'll take the snow and deepfreeze at home in Philly over that... even though it's been really mild there...no deep freeze yet... Crazy weather, man, makes me wonder, ya know?"

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