Followers of gothic doom metallic outfit Paradise Misplaced could have one thing to look ahead to subsequent 12 months, as songwriting efforts are underway and if Nick Holmes has any say, will likely be carried out in 2024.

Throughout a latest interview with Portuguese metallic information outlet Metallic World (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Holmes mentioned that work was being carried out on Paradise Misplaced’s comply with as much as their 2020 album Obsidian. In actual fact, the band’s been laborious at work on the album since this previous summer season.

“We began engaged on some songs. Then we began the summer season competition season, and it simply bought form of misplaced within the festivals. It’s good to allocate a interval of downtime when you may write as a result of it’s laborious to maintain your head on one factor once you hold having to pack a bag after which get on an airplane and go and do a gig and also you’ve gotta rehearse for the reveals. It’s simply good to scratch a while for that.

“So hopefully initially of subsequent 12 months, we are able to have a couple of months downtime so we are able to truly get working extra on the album. However we’ve bought a couple of songs carried out. I believe we’ve bought a couple of songs carried out; we have to evaluate them. So, yeah, we’ll hopefully write an album subsequent 12 months, anyway. Whether or not it’s gonna be recorded [next year], I don’t know, however hopefully at the very least written.”

Holmes, who additionally fronts Massacre and Host, is not any stranger to speaking about his writing course of. Final 12 months, he shared how writing loss of life metallic lyrics for Massacre feels “like one other instrument to me,” stating that the lyrics don’t essentially need to make sense through the writing course of — and even within the completed product a lot — whereas writing loss of life metallic.

For Paradise Misplaced, nevertheless, that’s prone to not be the case in any respect, since their music is extra melodic. As a author, Holmes instructed Metallic World that he prefers to have the music in place when he’s writing vocals and lyrics, saying these tracks act as a “springboard to write down lyrics to.”

“I at all times like how lyrics, how phrases sound on sure components of songs. And that’s at all times one thing I’ve admired about sure bands through the years. I’m not notably fascinated about listening to tales in songs, though typically it’s good to listen to that, nevertheless it’s extra about how, notably metallic, for me, it’s extra about how the songs sound at a sure time, how the lyrics sound at a sure time and the phrases. I imply, I can write with out music, however I favor to have one thing to form of bounce off, actually.”

With writing doubtless not carried out till someday in 2024, we may anticipate to presumably see a brand new Paradise Misplaced document both a lot later within the 12 months or so far as 2025. Solely time will inform.