Kings Destroy to Begin Recording Fourth Album Nov. 6
Things have been quiet on the surface from Brooklyn’s Kings Destroy the last couple months. Sure, they shared the stage with YOB over the summer and issued the single-song 14-minute None More EP (review here) early this year, but while there hasn’t been much word from them since, currents have been running full speed, carrying them toward the inevitability of their fourth full-length. The band posted on Instagram the other day they’ll start recording on Nov. 6, which if you’re paying attention at all to the calendar, you already know is this coming Monday.
That’s already exciting news for anyone who heard 2015’s self-titled (review here) third outing, but if anything’s been true from record to record when it comes to Kings Destroy, it’s that they don’t repeat themselves. And this time around they’ve added further intrigue in a producer swap from Sanford Parker, who has helmed their previous three LPs, to David Bottrill, who mixed their second, 2013’s A Time of Hunting (review here). Taken into consideration with some accompanying changes to their songwriting process, the prospect of the next Kings Destroy album seems more primed than ever to push them into yet-uncharted territory, which as they’ve proven time and again is where they most thrive.
I chased down guitarist Carl Porcaro for an update about the band’s plans and what’s thus far gone into the making of the next album. Here’s what he had to say:
Carl Porcaro on Kings Destroy’s Fourth LP:
It’s time for Kings Destroy to get back in the studio to record our fourth album, and while some things will remain the same, there will be big changes. Next week we’ll start tracking at Applehead Recording in Saugerties, NY, where we recorded our second album, A Time of Hunting. The surroundings will be familiar but this will our first time working without Sanford Parker at the bridge. He’s been a constant though our all of our albums and although his presence will be missed, we felt that it was a time to change producers and shake ourselves out of our comfort zone. David Bottrill will be producing and although most of us never met him in person, he mixed A Time of Hunting, so we are familiar with each other, have talked extensively over email about the songs we are going to record, and are excited to make this record together.
We’ll be recording 12 songs and the direction we’ve set our sights on is simultaneously heavier, deeper, and more melodic, mostly slow but with some uptempo thrown in for balance. You’ll probably find some themes you haven’t heard from us lyrically and some sounds that are new for us. We allowed ourselves more time to craft the material this time around and didn’t limit ourselves to our typical approach of only working through the new songs together in our practice room. We demoed songs, listened to them, lived with them, and tweaked them until we felt they were at their best while still leaving room to get spontaneous during the recording process.
Previously we wrote a batch of songs together that we were ready to play live and then went into the studio and figured out how to make a record out of them. This time we’re making a studio record first and foremost, and will enjoy adapting the material for the road in time to start touring on it next year.
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