Adam Dimicco of Lorna Shore joined me to talk about the making of the bands latest record I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me. The album is a punishingly heavy as it is expansive. Adam said they took a head on approach to creating this album diving fully into ideas that they previously dipped their toes in.
‘(my goal was to) Write the most versatile and diverse album as I could. We tried to have whatever theme was present for a certain song let’s adhere to it, let’s dive headfirst and fully immerse ourselves in that sound. As opposed to in the past it was kind of like dipping your toe in the water and trying to do too much at once and I just realized it’s probably just best to immerse yourself in whatever your doing instead of trying to make one thing be everything and I feel like that was probably the starting point for (the album).’
We talked about how it was to stay on point with the themes throughout the album. He says they really enjoy what they do so that’s what they really wanted to do. The writing process of the music is a very collaborative effort where he says everyone in the band has to be in sync with the others in order to achieve the right sound.
‘You can’t just be like “Let’s just throw everything on top of each other” and expect it to work, everything has a rhyme and a reason and a purpose for each point and thing, whether it’s the guitars meant to duck down so it’s being more vocal and production driven or maybe vocals and production needs to come down so it’s more music oriented…everything is very intentional…We wanted to make the album as cohesive as possible.’
Inspiration is always a fascinating moment to capture and I asked Adam what is one thing that sticks out as a great example of inspiration. He said this about the song ‘War Machine’.
‘One of the first riffs I wrote for the record was the riff for the song ‘War Machine’ and that’s very heavily inspired by ‘Master Of Puppets’ I just love of simple and chromatic these 3 note chromatics made this simple, awesome riff…it’s such a sick idea and once I tried a million different ways to replicate that it kinda came up to what we came up with…’
We then chatted about how cool Metallica is and how badass songwriting can be. Lorna Shore will play at Epic on April 29th. And yes he plays only downstrokes.
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