Carcass guitarist Bill Steer seems to be pretty stoked on the fact that Carcass is back together with a new album. Hell, he even goes as far as calling extreme music "fresh" and "exciting." So much so that he and the band are already agreeing to doing a new record!
Steer recently told MetalShineBlogg about the new record:
"Yeah. There's a mutual agreement between us that we'd like to do one. There's an awareness that if we can get through the next seven months of touring and festivals and still like each other and feel good about this, we definitely want to do a record. There's loads of lessons we learnt on this one and while I've still got it fresh in my head, I want to build on that. It's fun, but it's a really challenging thing to do because I haven't done anything creatively in this genre of music for so long, but it suddenly felt very fresh. I had escaped it because it was too limited in my mind and after a few years of doing other styles of music, I found there were new limitations with that and I wanted to go back and do extreme music again. [laughs] You can never be 100% happy, but right now this is what I like doing. As I said, it's a challenge and probably more so now than ever, because it's hard to be innovative in this music. There's a lot of incredible players out there. Especially the American guys, they're treating it like a sport and the drummers especially and you have to admire the dedication and tenacity, but I also think this music has to have a little bit of soul and maybe some swing."
While it's promising that Steer and the band would like to do a new record, I love that Steer looks at Carcass' music from the perspective of simply music. He doesn't want it to be stupid mechanical and soulless like so many ultra-tech bands are wont to do (get mad, you know it's true), but human-sounding and generally heavy as balls! Great that he's excited about extreme music once more and here's to hoping the new Carcass record will eventually kick ass, far down the road of course!
[via Blabbermouth]
