In a recent interview with MetalMasterKingdom.com, Hansi Kürsch, the frontman of the German metal band BLIND GUARDIAN, discussed the ongoing progress of the songwriting sessions for their upcoming studio album.
He said: “We started songwriting a while ago, but I think we skipped all the ideas we’ve had. We do that from time to time, because if the span in between the real songwriting and the ones we did before is so big, then it doesn’t make sense to keep on working on these songs because you do not get back into the mode, and so it’s better to just put them aside. And some of this stuff really got forgotten over the years, and we never touched it again. So, we will start from scratch zero right now. We are still in the mode of ‘live band’ [due to all the touring we have done]. So I would expect the next songs to be heavy — heavy and aggressive”.
Asked if the next BLIND GUARDIAN album will be musically similar to 2022’s “The God Machine”, the singer said: “That’s difficult to say, because ‘The God Machine’ is more of a production result than it is in the songwriting itself. The songwriting is not too different from what we did on [2015’s] ‘Beyond The Red Mirror’, but the way we treated the songs in the studio is so different. So the result turns out to be, obviously, differently impressive to people. I would say, yes, we go for individual [songs]. With the lyrics, I am more focused on this than having a conceptual album. When having a conceptual album, you may go musically in one direction also. So we go freestyle.”
