The Red Chord is Working on New Material
If you’ve been waiting patiently for new music from The Red Chord, then boy do we have some good news for ya. Not only they been playing reunion shows and drumming up nostalgia since 2009, it’s now been revealed that they’re finally working on new material.
Don’t get us wrong, we’re not saying that in a bad way, as hearing their discography live is great, especially for us millennials. But it will be nice to have something new to jam to as well.
In an interview with Squared Circle Pit, which you can stream below, vocalist Guy Gozowyk spoke about their future plans.
“It was actually kind of crazy to start, when we were looking at it around when we were doing the Decibel show and Tattoo The Earth last year, and then this other Decibel show out in Denver, where our last album came out in 2009, and it’s just crazy to think like—’Oh okay guys, like, it’s been a long time.’ We have to release something new and just show that we’re still capable of writing stuff that’s, you know, as good as it was before—and if we can’t, then we’ll just get out of the way and you won’t hear from us anymore.
“But everything that we’re going to do from here on is going to be with a little bit more of a purpose. Like, if we put out an album on vinyl and do some shows to move some vinyl and to celebrate some of these albums, I could justify (in) my head—yeah, cool, we’re going to get together; we’re going to devote some time and try to launch this up right. But until we get a handle and actually record something … John Rice has been our drummer for a while now, and we don’t have any actual new material with him recorded.”
When asked if the band has been jamming together, Gozowyk said they’ve been going at it for quite a while now.
“Yes. There’s been work in the lab now since 2009, it’s just a matter of actually—I think everyone’s on the same page in terms of wanting to do the stuff. I think right now more so than ever before, I think we’re all on the same page that, okay, yeah—we should really either give this a send off with some new material, or keep it going again, or something. Because the shows that we did play, I think we all just kind of missed being creative, and we missed each other. Those are some of my best friends, and I love working with those guys.
“Unfortunately, we had planned on trying to move forward and stuff at the end of ’22 and, you know, life gets in the way; we got a little derailed with some stuff, and next thing you know, we played our one and only show December of 2023, and it’s just like, where did this whole bulk of time go?
“And I think that that’s just kind of been the theme of a lot of stuff lately is, as you get older, and as you just get more self-absorbed in your profession or, you know, your family life or whatever, it’s very difficult to focus on the things that you like doing from a creative standpoint. Yeah, I’m hoping that we could actually give The Red Chord the priority that I kind of feel like in my head I feel like it deserves.”
Whatever album comes next, whenever it comes out, will be the first record since Fed Through The Teeth Machine, out 2009, and their first recorded material with Jon Rice, who is also drummer for Job For A Cowboy. We can’t wait.
