Bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel of the veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB has issued the following update:"We've been in pre-production recording mode for the last few weeks. This will be the first time SKINLAB has ever spent so much quality time on pre-production. In the past our producers would show up a couple days early pror to recording and run through some ideas with us on arrangements, vocals and tones. This time around, we've taking a more hands-on approach with Snake [guitar] behind the board engineering and recording everything so it can all be heard played back and arranged, rearranged and ultimately thought out so we get the best out of each song."
"We've been getting alot of emails asking what the new materials sounds like. All I can say is that we've tried to take our favorite part of SKINLAB and combine them though each song individually. For instance, we have a one of the slowest songs since 'Art Of Suffering/Noah' days called 'Still Suffering', sure to please all the old schools; one of the heaviest songs we've ever written, 'Scream at the World', which has been sounding pretty cool as the album title, but we'll see; 'Wolvsblood', which is super-heavy song with sick-ass vocal and guitar hooks in the vein of one of our all time faves, ENTOMBED; 'We're All Gods Now' is a straight-up beatdown tune, very aggressive with a new SKINLAB flavor that hasn't really been heard yet... just a nice brutal tune should make all you thrashers happy; 'Suicide Notes' is lyrically probably one of the most intense songs we've written. A few others without title are starting to take shape. We can't wait to share this music with you, this will be the best SKINLAB record ever! Spread the word!!!! We will also be announcing a special Bay Area headlining show next week. For now, make sure to get you're tickets for our show with FORBIDDEN [on February 24 at The Fat Cat in Modesto]; this is gonna be fuckin bad-ass!! Me and the rest of the guys are fuckin stoked, plus Gene Hoglan on drums [playing with FORBIDDEN].... Geeezus, it's gonna be off the hook!!"
