A LIFE ONCE LOST frontman Bob Meadows is featured in a new interview with TheScreamQueen.com. An excerpt is available below:

Q: How do you feel with the new album you've connected, or are still connecting with it personally?

Meadows: "I think, personally, it's a sonic difference. It's just way warmer and bigger and it's a lot of fun to sing to it. It's really grabbing me from my fucking balls right now and it feels pretty great. I think overall, when it drops, it's going to turn a lot of heads. I think what we were doing with A Great Artist back in 2002, we were doing things that these bands weren't doing. No one was treading in that water yet. You had us and our inspiration was coming from MESHUGGAH, and PANTERA, and CANDIRIA. And now we put out A Great Artist and it was just-- it never really clicked with a lot of people, then we put out The Hunter and it started making sense. Then all of a sudden you have all of these younger bands are just kind of cruising by and it's sick for them, and fuck man, I'm not jealous at all, I wish them all the success in the world. I think this record is really going to put a lot of people in perspective of who we are and what we do in metal. I think we're a very under-looked band, very underestimated."

Q: Each CD you release is a transition period, how do you feel this transition from Iron Gag to when you release your new album is going to be from an improvement standpoint?

Meadows: "You have to progress, you're in a band, and you find and comfort zone and a safe place, and you don't ever tread outside of that, then you're, you know, a fucking pussy. You're just doing what you do because you found and formula and you're not experimenting, and you're not testing the waters. That's not what a musician is, that's not what a band should be. You evolve as a human being, I was 19 years old when we first started this band. I'm 31 now. It's been just one of the most insane journeys of my life, to have the chance of doing a lot of the things I've done. And I've grown up, I was an asshole before, I'm still an asshole now, but I think mentally and the way that I perceive things now, it's just-- you grow up and you grow past, and you kind of just mature.

And I think what we're doing now as musicians, and as a band, and as friends, and as people, we're maturing; the step to the different tuning, the reproach of making the songs more devastating, you know what I mean? We're a metal band, we're not a hard rock band, we're not a hardcore band, we're a metal band. We're a metal band now. And fuck, you've got to come with your A-Game nowadays, there's so many bands out there. You get lost in the shuffle. If you're not constantly evolving, you're just fucking stagnant. Just don't waste our time."

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A Life Once Lost recently announced the addition of a new drummer to their ranks. After the departure of previous drummer Justin Graves earlier this year, the band auditioned several drummers and landed upon fellow Philadelphia resident Jordan Crouse.

“I’m stoked to be joining up with A Life Once Lost,” affirms Jordan. “Performing at New England Metal and Hardcore Festival two weeks ago was definitely a great experience and I’m looking forward to touring and working on the new record due out later this year.”

The band is currently finishing their follow up to 2007’s Iron Gag. Paul Romano (MASTODON, TRIVIUM, THE RED CHORD), designer of the album art for previous A Life Once Lost records Hunter and Iron Gag, is confirmed to illustrate the album art. The band is looking forward to releasing the upcoming record during the fall of 2011 on their new label, Season Of Mist.

Stay tuned for further updates.