BW&BK Exclusive: JON OLIVA'S PAIN Drummer On New Album - "It’s Going To End Up Being A Global Warning Meets DOCTOR BUTCHER Thing"
March 11, 2009, 15 years ago
BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai recently caught up with JON OLIVA'S PAIN drummer Chris Kinder, who offered the following update on the band's forthcoming studio album:
“We’re deep in the throes of it. We’ve got 13 songs that Jon and I have been working on for about three months, and there are half a dozen or more that are still on the plate. There’s a definite feeling with Jon, and I see this on a regular basis, of a renewed spirit of wanting to stuff the hardest material he can down everybody’s throats (laughs). I think it’s going to end up being a Global Warning meets Doctor Butcher thing. It’s really true, and now that I’m so deep into the record with him I can honestly say that’s probably the direction the new record is headed. We’re leaning off the ballads a bit and we have a couple epic songs, of course, but Jon really wants to get back to where its killer riffs, old school Criss Oliva stuff that we’re still digging out of the closet.”“Jon is kind of on a mission, I think,” Kinder adds. “I don’t know if he’s going old school or whatever, but when we were getting into working on the demos we were sitting here at the house and he told me that he just wanted to punch everybody right in the face with the first five or six songs on the new record. Jon is going to be 50 this year, and the amount of energy he has for the music… I’m at a loss for words. To watch him sit and think about what’s going on as we try to record these songs, it’s interesting to say the least, and maybe even a bit scary (laughs)."
Go to this location for the complete story, which features an in-depth discussion with Kinder about his production work on SAVATAGE / TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Chris Caffery's latest solo album, House Of Insanity.
