“We went back to find some of those Wonder What’s Next tones, which were heavy as shit, and we tried to incorporate everything we’ve learned over the past 18 years,” he goes on. He reinforces what we’re doing and gets the best out of us.” At the same time, he always pushes us to do what we want to do. “Joe has so much knowledge from so many years of doing this. After a month in the studio, they emerged with ten blistering new tracks that rekindled the brash power of their early material while reflecting nearly two decades of refinement. They began nodding to heavier influences like early Marilyn Manson, Danzig Helmet, and Clutch. Writing throughout 2015, the band headed to Los Angeles in February 2016 to record with longtime producer Joe Barresi. I really had to budget my time and balance.” It was such a different experience writing. It’s still difficult to balance since I want to spend as much time as possible with my son. Luckily, I have a cool wife who lets me do that. When you embark down the road of writing an album, it starts with songwriting. “It’s one of the biggest moments,” he goes on. While writing what would become The North Corridor in late 2014, Pete became a father, and it profoundly impacted the course of the album. Since then, their 2002 platinum-certified Wonder What’s Next spawned hits including “The Red” and “Send The Pain Below,” and 2004’s gold-selling This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In yielded “Vitamin R (Leading Us Along).” Following the acclaimed Vena Sera in 20’s Sci-Fi Crimes, Hats Off to the Bull bowed at #9 on the Billboard Top 200 in 2011 bolstered by the smash “Face to the Floor.” Most recently, 2014’s La Gárgola earned the band’s highest debut on the Billboard Top 200 at #3, while garnering features from Billboard, Chicago Sun-Times, Rolling Stone, Revolver, Premier Guitar, DRUM! Magazine, and many more. It’s also the next natural step for the trio, continuing a journey that began in 1999 with their full-length debut Point No. This is definitely more of a metal album.” I’m digging up some dark subjects within that. There are aspects of this area that can be all-encompassing, and you can’t deny them. “A lot of people joke about how the winters are so long and cold. “The North Corridor is sometimes how we describe the area we live in, Chicagoland,” Pete elaborates. This atmosphere even inspired the title of the multiplatinum Chicago alternative rock band’s eighth full-length album, The North Corridor. Chevelle-brothers Pete Loeffler and Sam Loeffler and Dean Bernardini -work well under these conditions. The seasonal equivalent of a horror flick, the blistering cold and unpredictable curtain of snow teeter between brutal and beautiful. Winter can feel as ominous as it does endless.
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