“I figured what was the hurt in trying to write in some nicer studios, setting up a bunch of cool gear and instead of writing on a computer, writing it on the fucking instruments? I was playing the drums instead of programming them and then playing them later. “I always write songs in a basement in Ohio for every Beartooth album,” says Shomo. Sessions in New York City, LA and Japan did go down, but it was still in the nascent stages of the writing process of the songs. The rationale being that the different environs would inspire the recordings in ways working at home in Columbus or under a high-powered personality like John Feldmann (who co-wrote some tracks on Aggressive ) couldn’t convey. Shomo’s original plan for Beartooth’s third album was to record several tracks in various cities all over the world where his label, Red Bull Records, had studios. I’m just glad I achieved the dynamic I was going for.” Obviously, I don’t hate it, but I feel it lacked the same dynamic the first record had, compared to this one. Aggressive was made in, what, two months? And I think you can hear that as well on this new record. “It’s a great depiction of what it’s like to make a record over the course of a year and a half. “There are songs where I was kind of more in a chipper place, where I was feeling more melody-driven or just flat-out heavy metal,” he continues. This is the first record I made with a ton of time, and I think it shows because there’s a kind of spectrum to this record. ![]() I wrote the song ‘Disease,’ about a month or two later? From there, it was really a process of taking all those songs of written over that year and a half and within two months, kind of like really narrowing it down and deciding what would fit best all together. Realistically, I’ve been sitting on the idea of this album for a year and a half. “I came up with the title and the whole concept in December of 2016. “I would say sonic photo album is the best way to describe this record,” he opines. Which should make listeners wonder if Shomo’s flexing his songwriting abilities or if he’s creating a sonic photo album of what he’s been experiencing over the past two years. While there are more melodic detours than previous releases (“You Never Know,” the title track), there are moments where the energy goes peak-red maniacal (“Bad Listener”), as well as intersections where both worlds converge at once. Given the amount of sonic depth on display on Disease, one could only guess at Shomo’s motivations. He told me to be confident in my decisions, not to worry about it and make the best record that you can and stop thinking about anything else. Let’s layer up some guitars.’ Honestly, Nick really fuckin’ brought this thing home. “He’d say things like, ‘This song doesn’t hit hard enough. Shomo says Raskulinecz helped shape the album, being very hands-on regarding what songs would be used and focusing the proceedings for Shomo to launch from. For Disease, Shomo worked with producer du jour Nick Raskulinecz (Deftones, Korn, Foo Fighters) at his Rock Falcon Studio while Shomo tracked at Black Bird studio in Franklin, Tennessee, to craft the album’s 12 songs. It’s the opening salvo from Shomo, who is following up 2016’s Aggressive with heaping doses of both heaviness and melody. There’s lots of paint, blood, I’m dying… it gets pretty dark.” He starts laughing. I don’t know: is not too much about having a plot as much as it is capturing an emotion. “I wouldn’t say it was last-minute, but we were able to put it together in five days or so. The clip was lensed by director Drew Russ, who has worked with the band on previous clips including “Lips,” “In Between” and “The Lines.” Shomo says the project came together quite quickly. Pretty good compared to when we shot ‘Beaten In Lips’ and I didn’t leave the the set until 6:30 in the morning the next day.” “Filming started at noon and ended at 11:30. ![]() “It was a pretty wild process getting this video together,” says Caleb Shomo, founder of furious metalcore monolith Beartooth about the clip for the title track of his band’s anticipated third album, Disease.
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