Deville were celebrating 15 years as a band and about to continue to tour the world in 2020 before it all took another turn – as we know. To not totally put everything on hold the only thing Deville could do was to start writing music and for the first time, the band was doing it on demand.
It became a weird, long ride and changed somehow the usual writing process with members writing in different constellations and on their own. The first songs were written without any destined direction or theme, so the last ones were more written from the perspective of what the album needed. Having the songs ready in early 2021 the band went through the filter many times more than a Deville record have done before and made the record more diverse than the band maybe expected. There are still the grooves, hooks and heavy riffs that the band is known for but a lot of metal and progressive influences also that take some songs in unexpected directions. Everything from sonic journeys to fast heavy rock. What the band does best.
This week Dave Griffiths caught up with Deville to chat about the album:
