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Michael Wilton, guitarist for Queensrÿche, discussed the status of the composition sessions for the group’s impending follow-up to 2022’s “Digital Noise Alliance” album in a recent interview with Mark Strigl, as per Blabbermouth.
We’re working on the new Queensrÿche, writing with Zeuss [Chris Harris]. So me and [guitarist] Mike Stone are here, and we’re blazing away.
Michael made this statement about the musical direction of the new Queensrÿche material.
Well, we’re pushing the envelope. We don’t get a lot of standard radio play, so we’re just going for it. We’re keeping the progressive element, the melodic element, the heavy metal element. So it’s gonna be a killer album. But we’re trying to make it a little bit different than the previous one. So, fingers crossed.
Wilton responded as follows when asked if he and his bandmates are already recording the songs for the upcoming album or if they are still in the “pre-production” and songwriting stages.
Well, it’s a bit of both. We’re at a point where we know our sounds, so if it’s kept in the arrangement of the song, then you’re halfway there. But yeah, Queensrÿche likes to come up with, in the writing process at least, 15 to 20 songs. So that’s kind of where we are right now. We’re probably on the 13th idea right now. So we’re kicking ass.
Wilton also discussed his compositional relationship with Mike Stone, a fellow guitarist for Queensrÿche.
We’re both in the room with Zeuss, our producer. And if I have a song, I play my idea. We document it, get it recorded, and then I go, ‘Mike, it needs another part on top,’ and he comes up with something and it complements, and then we just work together and just build the song. It’s great, because you can bounce ideas off each other and it’s not just one person saying, ‘It’s my way or the highway.’ It’s about getting the vibe and getting the right flavors of the music, and I’ll tell you what: Mike Stone does a great job. He can understand what I’m playing and he knows that what we call Rÿche-ian sound.
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