BLIND GUARDIAN’s Next Album Will Be “Heavy And Aggressive”, According To HANSI KÜRSCH

In a current dialogue with MetalMasterKingdom, Blind Guardian‘s frontman Hansi Kürsch, shared insights into the band’s progress on their upcoming studio album.

Based on Hansi, the band had initially began the songwriting course of a while in the past however determined to discard all earlier concepts. He defined (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “We began songwriting some time in the past, however I believe we skipped all of the concepts we have had. We try this once in a while, as a result of if the span between the actual songwriting and those we did earlier than is so large, then it does not make sense to maintain on engaged on these songs as a result of you don’t get again into the mode, and so it is higher to only put them apart.

“And a few of these things actually acquired forgotten through the years, and we by no means touched it once more. So, we’ll begin from scratch zero proper now. We’re nonetheless within the mode of ‘reside band’ resulting from all of the touring we’ve accomplished. So I might count on the following songs to be heavy — heavy and aggressive.”

When questioned about whether or not the brand new album would resemble their 2022 launch, The God Machine, Hansi remarked on the complexity of the comparability. He famous, “That is tough to say, as a result of The God Machine is extra of a manufacturing end result than it’s within the songwriting itself. The songwriting just isn’t too completely different from what we did on Past The Purple Mirror, however the best way we handled the songs within the studio is so completely different. So the end result seems to be, clearly, otherwise spectacular to individuals. I might say, sure, we go for particular person [songs]. With the lyrics, I’m extra targeted on this than having a conceptual album. When having a conceptual album, it’s possible you’ll go musically in a single route too. So we go freestyle.”

Kursch recently hinted at a potential release date for the band’s subsequent album, nevertheless, remained cautious a couple of agency launch timeline: “I am fairly positive it is going to be…. I am undecided what it is going to appear to be precisely. We did the re-recordings for Someplace Far Past for the anniversary album, and we did the reside recordings in 2022, so that is one thing definitely to return up very quickly. However we’re speaking about new materials.”

Within the meantime, Blind Guardian has been revisiting their Somewhere Far Beyond album to great effect.