Fire From The Gods have never been backward in coming forward, with their music not only providing a source of entertainment, but also a running commentary on the world we live in.
That has been stepped up a notch with the band’s new album, Soul Revolution, which is due out on October 28.
The title pretty much says it all, with Fire From The Gods inciting a revolution through the power of music and one which sees the band openly exploring vocalist AJ Channer‘s mantra of All Power To All People.
HEAVY caught up with AJ earlier today for an insightful chat into the album and the general world views of a man who pours his soul into his music and his music into his beliefs.
“It was a journey, bro,” he began, “because it started right in the back end of COVID when things were starting to change a little bit for us in Texas. Things were starting to open up, but we also had gone through this really catastrophic winter down here. We had this week and a half of crazy, crazy weather that nearly… it changed a lot. Texas is a super, robust, oil, everything’s bigger in Texas type place, and then a little bit of freezing temperatures and some snow and the whole state was reduced to almost third world conditions, so shit was crazy. And then coming out of that my wife, my kids and I – and we’d just had a new born – so we had a two, three week old baby, and we were having to live in a hotel for a week. It was crazy! And then, coming off that, I sent them to Tennessee because things hadn’t changed here. Power wasn’t back, and we didn’t know how that was going to be, so they left and went to Tennessee and I went to Houston to start demoing. Not only was I not living in my house for a week and things had gone crazy weather wise in Texas, it was also ‘by the way, let’s start demoing’. It was wild. It started with that and then the world started opening up, and we were fighting to get some tours back. We were lucky enough to get on the road with Korn, who we adore, so it was all in the backdrop of that, but we were still doing zoom sessions for writing. I love that you and I can be on zoom right now rapping about music, but I don’t wanna write fucken music over the computer (laughs). I wanna be in the booth in the room. SThere was a lot of that. It was crazy, bro. It was crazy.”
In the full interview, AJ talks more about the songs on Soul Revolution, what Fire From The Gods were going for musically, the themes n the album and how they relate to modern society, how he is settling in to the band after three albums, his early days as vocalist and how the band encouraged him, touring plans and more.
