tBS: more Denial of Death

[Albert Bouchard]

Thanks guys:
I do feel like it's my best work in… I don't know. I feel like every
album is my best usually. I remember being stunned when people didn't
like Mirrors. But in retrospect I can see that Mirrors was a bit of a
left turn for many fans. The thing is you don't really think about
how people will perceive your work. I just think about what I have to
say and how I want to say it. In that regard I will say that I had an
idea to make a kind of metal that I didn't hear anyone else doing
(except for maybe Last Crack, remember them?). Ross wanted to do a
metal album and I just said OK but let's make it about real stuff,
not norse gods or mythical creatures or how we can f$%k all night.
Once we got into it, of course, we started trying to use those same
images for metaphors but that's song-writing. ;-) Bottom line is that
I think Jason nailed it when he said originally that this is a kind
of personal metal. These songs are not exercises. Every song is about
a real experience. Other songwriters do that all the time but it's a
first for me. I'll try to get all the lyrics up on the cellsum site
this weekend.
Cheers,
Al

On Feb 16, 2006, at 12:34 PM, blackblade at BHALLIGAN.COM wrote:

> Carl wrote:
>> I think, overall, this is for me the best Brain Surgeons disc so
>> far, so
>> I'm comfortable in saying I think this is at least the best thing
>> Al's
>> worked on since _Imaginos_.
>
> It's certainly the closest in sound he's been to Imaginos. I do
> agree DoD is the best Surgeons album, though my favorite is still
> Box of Hammers. Yes, there is a difference between best and
> favorite. ;-)
>
>> I think I feel prepared to say
>> _Denial of Death_ may well be the the best album Al's been
>> involved with
>> since early BOC.
>
> Wow, that's a lot of flinching for one sentence. If you're going to
> dare, be daring. ;-) Still, I can understand the hesitation. There
> are some amazing albums between Secret Treaties and DoD, and I
> don't know if I would feel comfortable making that statement
> myself. Regardless, DoD is a brutally beautiful piece of work.
>
>> (Actually, I wish the sound on the early BOC albums
>> was as good as it is on Denial of Death :)
>
> I agree, the overall sound is spectacular. Those guitars! And Al's
> drums have never sounded better-produced with the Surgeons.
>
> Brian
> obSong> "Plague of Lies"