KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Drummer Says Next Album Will Be 'Definitely A Little Different'

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE drummer Justin Foley recently spoke to Louder Noise about the band's next album, the group's songwriting process, and KILLSWITCH ENGAGE chose to start playing a new song, "Strength Of The Mind", live in concert during the band's recent tour. Check out the chat below.

On KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's upcoming follow-up to 2013's "Disarm The Descent":

"I'm not sure if it's completely taken shape yet, but it's definitely a little different record than last time. Last time, it was really, really fast the whole way through. This one doesn't have quite the same speed to it, but has a different kind of heaviness to it, I think — a little bit of moodiness to it. I don't really know how to describe it yet. But it's coming along, and we're anxiously awaiting finishing it as well. It's been awhile."

On the KILLSWITCH ENGAGE songwriting process:

"For the most part, we all demo stuff at home. Everybody writes a bunch of stuff, and we just record it and present it to each other. And from then on, we decide if things sound like they're finished, or if they need tweaking, or if maybe a riff that someone has works with a riff someone else has, then maybe we'll combine demos together. That's kind of what we do. And then, once we get all that straightened out, we make new demos of how those tracks are all coming together, and then from there, you can kind of see where the record's going."

On the new KILLSWITCH ENGAGE song "Strength Of The Mind", which the band has been performing live:

"I think that one is a good representation of stuff that we do. But I also think it's a song that would sound good live. It's a song that wasn't crazy, crazy fast, it wasn't crazy different from any of our stuff, so I think it was a good song to kind of ease into new material. I think live, it was the kind of thing that we could get it to sound tight fairly quickly, which is helpful, 'cause we didn't have a whole lot of time to get it ready for this tour. So that kind of helped us influence picking that song. So, yeah, so far it's been going well. I think we're getting a handle of it."

"Disarm The Descent" sold around 48,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 7 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on April 2, 2013 via Roadrunner Records.

"Disarm The Descent" was KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's first album with singer Jesse Leach at the vocal helm since 2002's now-classic, genre-defining "Alive or Just Breathing".

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE contributed a new song, "Loyalty", to the mixtape for HBO's hit fantasy series "Game Of Thrones".