HELLYEAH Guitarist: Next Album 'Will Be Way More Aggressive Than Anything We've Done Yet'

Kristyn of Pop Culture Madness conducted an interview with HELLYEAH guitarist Tom Maxwell when the band played at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 19, 2011 as part of the Jägermeister Music Tour with BUCKCHERRY and ALL THAT REMAINS. You can now watch the chat chat below.

When asked if he does any writing on the road, Maxwell said, "Well, it all depends. You kind of have to have inspiration and motivation to write. For me it's that way. And I've been kind of staying away playing and writing — only because I'm just burnt out right now from touring so much. We love what we do, and as soon as you hit the stage, you're back in that zone. But lately, me and Greg [Tribbett, guitar] have been playing around, and the next record's gonna be way more aggressive than anything we've done yet."

Regarding whether the band will once again go back to HELLYEAH/ex-PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott's home in Arlington, Texas, where he has a studio set up to work on the next album, Maxwell said, "It's unclear where we're gonna go. I mean, we might — anything is possible. There's a lot of distractions at [Vinnie's] house. [Laughs] A lot of distractions. But it's kind of our home base. We all kind of scatter across the country and regroup down there. Vinnie has a place out in Vegas, too, but I think that's kind of out of the question, 'cause that's a massive distraction — Vegas. But, you know, if we do it back in Dallas, it's totally fine; the studio is already set up in his house . . . The way we do it, it's very affordable, because it's already in-house — we're not renting out big studios and paying $100,000 or $50,000 on everything, and then you have to fly all your techs out and back and forth, put them up in hotels. At Vinnie's house, it's all-inclusive — we live there, we eat there, we party there, we record and write. So it makes it really, really simple."

HELLYEAH's sophomore album, "Stampede", sold 28,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 8 on The Billboard 200 chart.

HELLYEAH's self-titled debut CD opened with 45,000 units back in April 2007 to land at No. 9.