BUSH's GAVIN ROSSDALE Wanted To Get 'Heavier' On 'Man On The Run' Album

Earlier this week, BUSH frontman and songwriter Gavin Rossdale was interviewed on "Elliot In The Morning", the morning radio talk show hosted by DJ Elliot Segal. You can listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below.

BUSH's sixth album, "Man On The Run" will be released on October 21 via Zuma Rock Records/RAL. The CD was recorded with Grammy-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (MASTODON, DEFTONES, FOO FIGHTERS, ALICE IN CHAINS) at Studio 606, the Northridge, California-based studio owned by FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl.

"It's kind of heavy and wide, but it's kind of super melodic," Rossdale told Segal about "Man On The Run".

"I wanted Nick Raskulinecz [to produce it], 'cause he does a lot of metal stuff. I didn't want to get any softness anywhere… [So] it is heavier. 'Cause we had so much fun doing all the live shows that we really wanted to be able to have songs that go into the set and really make it happen. There's no function in us writing just a record with just songs — those songs have to be able to infiltrate, they have to move little things, not off the map, but they have to live next to that song. So it has to be nice and strong."

He continued: "I began it with more weird, dark noises and effects, like 'garage electronic' is what I keep calling it. So it's a bit darker and weird. There's not, like, programming, like… it's not a disco record. But it's kind of got weirder stuff, weird sounds on it and good loops and strange things. It's cool. It's a good mixture."

BUSH has released "The Only Way Out", the first single from "Man On The Run". Rossdale told The Pulse Of Radio about the approach he took to the song's subject matter. "It's obviously an old tenet, you know, the only way out is through, and I just think that for everybody that's a comforting thought," he said. "It's an uplifting song about a difficult subject, and although I've always really liked to write about dark things, I've always liked to have an escape hatch, a trap door, the way out, so it was fun to do a song that is really quite uplifting."

Rossdale told USA Today that the song was "a good gateway into the record. This record gets a bit wider and probably a little darker. This is just the right way in."

"Man On The Run" follows up BUSH's 2011 comeback effort, "The Sea Of Memories", which was the band's first all-new album in a decade and spawned the No. 1 rock single "The Sound Of Winter".

2014 also marks the 20th anniversary of BUSH's debut album "Sixteen Stone", which reached No. 4 on The Billboard 200 and included the hits "Comedown", "Glycerine", "Machinehead", "Everything Zen" and "Little Things".