KATAKLYSM Working On Riffs For Despair
July 4, 2007, 17 years ago
KATAKLYSM singer Maurizio Iacono offers the following update:
"Yesterday (Monday, July 2nd) I met up with J-F (Dagenais - guitar) at his new big house - he just bought a new house next to Steph (Stéphane Barbe - bass) and Max (Duhamel - drums) and its real nice - and he is building his studio downstairs where we will track most of the album. We starting working on more riffs, and like an old habit things started flowing immediately, no rust and all inspired stuff. Stephane came over later in the day and he brought a bunch of hooks and riffs he had been taping at his house and I was blown away by some of his stuff; Shadows & Dust-era type feel (he wrote must of that album with me). We went to Stephane's place in the late afternoon and hooked up with Max and started working on the title track Prevail. We are that type of band that goes straight for the jugular first, so we got some massive brainstorming going with some colds ones and got the song completed by night time, Max got that gravity blast down to a science let me tell you. Killer song and its fucking aggressive, a lot more going on then songs written on In The Arms Of Devastation (2006), I really like the direction the album is taking and no worries its pure Kataklysm, we already had skeletons ready for four songs but this one is the first completed one, and its a total pit slammer."Despair is due out in early 2008 via Nuclear Blast.
