God Forbid is not actively engaged on their first new file since 2012’s Equilibrium, however they appear fairly open to it nowadays. God Forbid guitarist Doc Coyle not too long ago famous he is obtained some new riffs and tune concepts laying round, and that it is only a matter of discovering time the place the band can work collectively.
Now God Forbid vocalist Byron Davis is chiming in throughout an interview with The Steel Mixtape, and he is making it very clear that he desires to do new materials. Davis‘ reasoning is that God Forbid can solely play their outdated materials for thus lengthy dwell, but additionally notes that he would not need to rush something.
“I feel that till we get new music, something extra is simply taking part in… It is probably not taking part in ourselves out. It is simply… Dude, I would like new music. The dudes within the band need new music. I might fairly spend the time writing music than taking part in reveals at this level, to be sincere. I wanna get on the market and have one thing new. Yeah, we’ve got a few B-sides that nobody’s ever heard, however I wanna have new present music. So, we’ll see what occurs. Everybody has schedules.
“After which God Forbid isn’t a kind of bands that simply throws something collectively. Once we write, we take our time and we write. Fortunately for us, everybody in our band is about integrity, so they don’t seem to be simply gonna throw out some slop. So, it is gonna should undergo the gauntlet a few instances earlier than components get cemented because the components. After which from there, then we’ll put it collectively, run some demos. I already began talking to my man that produced a number of the fabric that we did, on the vocal tip.
“So once we do some materials, it is gonna be a file worthy of being referred to as a God Forbid file; it is not simply gonna be thrown collectively. So if it takes somewhat bit longer, it is value it. Nah, man, we won’t be coming in with that bullshit. We have gotta stamp it with the God Forbid. It will probably’t be lower than; it is gotta be better than. We have got a we obtained a again catalog that stands the take a look at of time, and the brand new shit wants to face the take a look at of time as properly. In order that’s how we go into the writing course of.”
God Forbid in 2025 is Davis, Coyle, drummer Corey Pierce, bassist John “Beeker” Outcalt, and dwell guitarist Nick Hipa.
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