{"id":82423,"date":"2020-08-07T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=82423"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T20:52:06","slug":"obituary-working-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=82423","title":{"rendered":"OBITUARY &#8211; Working On New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deep Riff: Obituary\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Erqv1CxyYpE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Floridian death metal legends <strong>OBITUARY<\/strong> are in the early stages of writing material for the follow-up to their 2017 self-titled album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Speaking via Australia&#8217;s Riff Crew (video above), drummer Donald Tardy shared the following information about their progress amid the pandemic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;I&#8217;m basically staying away from everybody \u2014 even the band. The band has not been together. Everyone has children \u2014 there&#8217;s a lot of children involved in this band. So we&#8217;re kind of just staying away from each other at this point. Ken&#8217;s [Andrews, guitar] over in Orlando, which is a hundred miles away. Trevor [Peres, guitar] lives about an hour away from the studio. So we&#8217;re basically just writing riffs on our own and recording them and tucking them away, and we&#8217;re gonna begin the process of writing songs together over the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve never done that before; we&#8217;ve always been a band to write riffs and come up with ideas and talk to each other on the phone and stuff, but we&#8217;re realizing that we&#8217;ve gotta do this. There&#8217;s no sense to be getting together every day or every other day when we don&#8217;t if and when one of us catches this thing. So we&#8217;re trying our best to be super safe. So what I&#8217;m doing is I&#8217;m writing. Trevor and I are going over stuff \u2014 he&#8217;s sending me riffs, I&#8217;m sending him drum beats and we&#8217;re kind of compiling some new stuff for the Obituary album. I&#8217;m also writing new Tardy Brothers stuff. And to keep myself busy, when I&#8217;m at the studio, I&#8217;m filming with my GoPro, just some of my performances, and when I get back to my place, I&#8217;m doing a lot of editing and spending a lot of time on some Tardy Brothers videos that I&#8217;m doing now. Because we did an album a long time ago \u2014 a decade ago \u2014 and I&#8217;ve had new songs that I had not recorded yet. So I&#8217;m really diving into that as well. I&#8217;m just keeping myself with music, because that&#8217;s really all I know. I take care of my house, my girl, my colonies of cats, and after that, it&#8217;s on to playing drums and writing riffs and coming up with new music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;&#8230;Sadly, even though it&#8217;s going on four months now, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really dawned on us how long we&#8217;re about to sit home as a band and as a touring group, because until venues are allowed to do shows and promoters are booking shows and we&#8217;re feeling safe to go do something, we&#8217;re gonna be home. And from the looks of it, and from what my agents are saying, we very well might be home for a year before we get to play one note of one show. So, what a scary reality. We&#8217;re trying to stay positive; we&#8217;re trying not to panic. Besides the finance part of it, and we don&#8217;t really know what&#8217;s gonna happen if we are having to sit home for a year, what we&#8217;re gonna try and do is we are gonna try and write a monster of a new Obituary album. And that&#8217;s kind of what our goal is. No matter what happens with us financially, we&#8217;re still gonna try and find a way to get music started, because when you write a song or a part of a song, if you can tuck it away for a week or two and then you come back and listen to it, any songwriter knows, you always come up with a better idea and you say, &#8216;You know what? We need this part. Something here is needed.&#8217; So we&#8217;re really gonna just focus on getting an album done, getting it written, getting it recorded, and being ready for 2021. And that&#8217;s really the only thing we can do. Our only job at this point is gonna be getting prepared for 2021, when the gate opens and we&#8217;re allowed to go unleash the mayhem again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floridian death metal legends OBITUARY are in the early stages of writing material for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82424,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82423\/revisions\/82424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}