In a brand new interview with Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio, STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok spoke in regards to the twentieth anniversary of the band’s fourth album, 2003’s “14 Shades Of Gray”. Reflecting on the making of the file, which was the follow-up to 2001’s mega-selling “Break The Cycle”, Mushok mentioned: “You may have a file firm, after you might have a tune like ‘It is Been A Whereas’, who needs 12 ‘It is Been A Whereas’s in your subsequent file. And it was a very arduous file to make. I bear in mind getting calls from the president of the label, saying, ‘You do not have it. You want extra songs.'”
He continued: “I bear in mind going out to NAMM that yr — it is that music conference in Anaheim [California] — and getting along with administration and so they’re simply, like, ‘They need extra songs.’ And we thought we had a file finished. And it was arduous to even get to that time. I bear in mind it was quite a bit. And I referred to as the band. I am, like, ‘You guys gotta get out right here. Get out right here.’ So all people flew out to Los Angeles, and we received right into a rehearsal house. And I bear in mind we wrote ‘Value To Play’. And Aaron [Lewis, STAIND frontman] had written ‘So Far Away’ already; we had that. And I feel we wrote ‘How About You’, which was one other tune on the file. And ‘Value To Play’ ended up being the primary single. After which clearly all people is aware of what ‘So Far Away’ did; I imply, it is a staple within the set, clearly, since then. However yeah, it was a tough file to make; it actually was.
“You go and make your first file and, actually, all people left us alone; no person cared,” Mike added. “And then you definitely made the second, and it bought 1,000,000 copies. Now individuals begin to care and so they’re a little bit bit extra concerned. Then after ‘Break The Cycle’, it was, like, ‘Oh, you gotta try to duplicate that.’ And it is, like, ‘Properly, I do not know that is going to occur, however we’ll do our greatest.'”
Mike additionally revealed that STAIND‘s file firm had requested that he and his bandmates contemplate using outdoors writers throughout the writing periods for “14 Shades Of Gray”.
“I do not know if I’ve ever even informed this [story to anyone in an interview],” Mike mentioned. “I bear in mind when all people got here out to Los Angeles. We might by no means actually used any outdoors writers or no matter; it had simply sort of been us that is finished it. And I bear in mind they introduced within the DeLeo brothers [Robert and Dean from STONE TEMPLE PILOTS] to our rehearsal spot that we had. They had been, like, ‘Oh, they’re gonna make it easier to guys.’ We had been simply, like, ‘No matter. And we love these guys. We had recognized them or no matter. They usually got here in, and I bear in mind they had been, like, ‘Properly, what do you guys have?’ And we performed them the file, and so they each went, ‘Why are we right here?’ [And I said], ‘I do not know. They mentioned they needed you to be right here.’ They had been, like, ‘You guys are good.’ So, we’re, like, ‘Oh, thanks.’ … It was good. These guys are nice.”
STAIND‘s new album, “Confessions Of The Fallen”, is being launched as we speak (Friday, September 15) through Alchemy Recordings/BMG. STAIND‘s first new LP album since 2011 was produced by Erik Ron (GODSMACK, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, BLACK VEIL BRIDES).
STAIND has launched eight albums since 1995. The band has had numerous hit songs throughout its first 20 years, together with the Prime 10 smash “It is Been Awhile” from the No. 1 album “Break The Cycle”. Comply with-up LPs “14 Shades Of Gray” and “Chapter V” additionally topped the Billboard chart.
STAIND launched its first album in 9 years, “Stay: It is Been Awhile”, in Could 2021 through Yap’em/Alchemy Recordings. The “Stay: It is Been Awhile” album was accompanied by “The Return Of Staind”, a two-part world streaming sequence in partnership with Danny Wimmer Presents.
STAIND and GODSMACK lately accomplished a 25-city co-headlining 2023 tour, produced by Stay Nation. The trek launched on July 18 at Hollywood On line casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Missouri, with stops throughout the U.S. earlier than wrapping up in Austin, Texas at Germania Insurance coverage Amphitheatre on August 31.