“It’s pretty hard for us to write on the road because we’re touring in an RV most of the time with tight quarters, which doesn’t bode well for creativity,” Vic acknowledges with a laugh. “I’ve got a piano in my house now so I’d been messing around on it and ended up writing some riffs, which I think definitely gave the album a different feel,” he continues, adding that he hopes to eventually implement keyboards into the band’s live performances.Īlthough Pierce The Veil have toured incessantly for the past three years, they made some time late last year to write these tracks and instantly threw themselves into the songwriting process.
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“That song was my first crack at writing on piano,” Vic explains. There are also plenty of sonic surprises on Selfish Machines, most notably the emotive, piano-driven ballad “Stay Away From My Friends” which displays the band’s growth as songwriters. “We’re not settling on anything with this record.”įrom the soaring pop sensibility of songs like “Bulletproof Love” to the upbeat aggression of “Caraphernelia”, the album shows how versatile Pierce The Veil have become, whether they’re screaming their hearts out or gently bearing their souls. “It was definitely necessary to take the extra time with this recording,” he continues. “It was actually a pretty intense process,” Vic explains, adding that the band didn’t finish the album in the time allotted which forced him to stay in LA for an extra two months working on vocals and bouncing between recording studios working on new ideas. Recorded with Mike Green (Paramore, Set Your Goals) in Los Angeles, the album ended up being more involved than initially planned-but that ended up being a blessing in disguise. All of this figures into the group’s long-awaited sophomore release Selfish Machines, an album that sees the band-frontman Vic Fuentes, drummer Mike Fuentes, guitarist Tony Perry and bassist Jaime Preciado-coming together to craft an inventive album that is certain to challenge people’s perception of the band. The band have toured the world including Warped Tour in 2008 and Taste Of Chaos in 2009 converted countless fans to their unique brand of progressive post-hardcore and, most notably, grown as both people and musicians from these cumulative experiences. A lot has happened in the three years since Pierce The Veil released their debut A Flair For The Dramatic in 2007.
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