WOODS OF YPRES frontman David Gold is featured in a new interview with MusicalImmigrant.com. An excerpt is available below:

Q: What is your favourite record to listen to on the road?

Gold: "I don't think I have a favourite road record. In fact, towards the end of tour I prefer silence and some peace of mind over nearly anything else, and certainly over any and all metal music. Now back at home after a 40 day tour, I'm listening to two new purchases, WHILE HEAVEN WEPT - Fear Of Infinity, TYPE O NEGATIVE - Dead Again (my second copy) and an old favourite... that might just be my favourite record to listen to on the road, THE WOUNDED - Monument. At home, inside, closer to my computer than the van CD player, there's always a lot of CBC Radio 3 playing. A lot."

Q: Which of your records - your solo or band's recordings - is/are your favourite(s)?

Gold: "Always the newest one of course! Actually, I like all of our records for different memories and reasons and because of varying degrees of hopeful expectations and desperation. I think I had the highest hopes for Woods III: Deepest Roots & Darkest Blues, which was the best album sales wise but I believe was the biggest disappointment with the listeners and therefore with me, as well. WIII was a massive record that took about a year too long to finish and regardless of how it could have turned out, it could have never lived up to the hype, and it didn't.

I had little to no expectations for 2002's Woods I: Against the Seasons - Cold Winter Songs From The Dead Summer Heat and it has stood the test of time, being a nearly unanimous favourite among long time listeners, known as the album that gives you what you want with none of what you don't. It keeps getting better and better reviews the older is gets, the farther we get from 2002. I feel as though I did something right in these last 10 years, or at least, 10 years ago, I did.

Back to your question, I think the next record will be the favourite, Woods 5 as in, my favourite and the overall favourite of our listening audience. Give it a few years and you'll likely see. Working on it now! Writing. Reflecting. Re-writing."

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As previously reported, frontman/founder David Gold was recently asked to describe what the band's next album, known for the time being simply as Woods 5. He offered the following:

"If there's a colour it's black, if there's a time of day it's at night, if there's a season at all it's winter. It will be sad, classy, dark and heavy. I'm almost 30 years old I've heard a lot of blastbeats and a lot of guitar wanking, but at this age I like a good song writing. I think people get into the music and connect with it because of that."