Lengthy-running Massachusetts-based band SHADOWS FALL entered the studio final month with producer Chris “Zeuss” Harris to start recording a few of its new materials. Talking to the “Nothing Surprising Podcast” in regards to the band’s determination to work with Zeuss once more, SHADOWS FALL drummer Jason Bittner mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “[Zeuss] did all of our data apart from… Effectively, he had a hand in all of them apart from [2012’s] ‘Fireplace From The Sky’… So he is all the time been concerned with SHADOWS FALL ultimately, form or type. As soon as this entire reunion factor sort of morphed from being only a one-show factor, we began speaking with him, ‘trigger he nonetheless lives two minutes away from Paul [Romanko, bass]. So, it is, like, ‘All proper. Effectively, in the event you guys are getting again collectively, what is the subsequent step? Are we making one other document?’ We’re, like, ‘Effectively, we do not know.’ And he was, like, ‘No matter we’re doing, let’s get on it.’ So sort of, like, we simply kind of figured, ‘We have no cash to pay you, as a result of we have no cash as a result of we do not have a document label or something.’ However he was simply, like, ‘Effectively, let’s simply begin doing this and let’s do it collectively.’ In order that’s just about the place we’re at proper now. We’re simply gonna begin recording some materials that we have now and we’re gonna hold working at that because the yr goes on.”

Throughout an look on a latest episode of “The Jasta Present” podcast, SHADOWS FALL singer Brian Honest spoke about the potential of new music from him and his bandmates. He mentioned: “I’ll lastly say there are riffs which might be turning into skeletons which may grow to be songs. Now, what occurs with them, the place they go, we’ll see. However as soon as we began jamming [for the recent reunion shows], we had been, like, ‘What is the level of doing this with out writing new riffs?’ And we had to ensure they had been gonna sound like SHADOWS FALL; we did not wanna come out of nowhere with one thing totally different, out of left discipline. However to date, they’re coming collectively, man, and I am stoked on what I am listening to. So hopefully that’ll proceed, that’ll proceed on. However so far as dropping an entire document… Who is aware of? Today it is totally different anyway. Shit, we are able to simply drop a couple of random singles after which see the place it goes. However I am excited that we’re writing, that we’re doing issues. And to date what I’ve heard has been wonderful… I have never actually dedicated, however we’re lastly getting our shit collectively and getting some riffs collectively.”

Honest went on to say that SHADOWS FALL is just not at present signed to any document label. “We’re free and clear,” he defined. “We had been fortunately free and clear for some time, so even our final couple of data had been carried out sort of on our personal phrases.”

SHADOWS FALL performed its first reunion present in December 2021 at The Palladium in Worcester within the band’s native Massachusetts. Honest and his bandmates additionally carried out at Blue Ridge Rock Pageant in Alton, Virginia, on the Furnace Fest in Birmingham, Alabama, and on the Milwaukee Steel Fest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Requested by host Jamey Jasta if SHADOWS FALL can be open to going out on a extra intensive tour, presumably because the help act for an enviornment band, Honest mentioned: “We’re not averse to that. It takes plenty of logistics now, with the remainder of my guys being in legendary thrash bands, like ANTHRAX and OVERKILL and whatnot. But when we are able to do it, we might like to. Proper now, festivals have been one thing we are able to pull off. However I’d like to do quick excursions or perhaps a month-long tour. Or not less than some lengthy weekends the place we hit every coast or do New England after which Midwest after which a West Coast factor. However we’ll see. We’re not saying ‘no’ to something. We’re gonna hear. So we’ll see, if issues make sense and if we are able to make it work.”

He added: “I have been in dad mode, simply working 9 to 5 for some time, so getting again on the pirate ship is fairly attractive at this level.”

SHADOWS FALL launched an announcement in August 2014 during which the bandmembers defined that monetary difficulties made it just about inconceivable for the group to proceed as a full-time concern.

In August 2015, SHADOWS FALL performed a couple of reunion exhibits on the U.S. East Coast, one yr after finishing what was being billed on the time because the band’s “remaining” European tour.

SHADOWS FALL‘s newest album, “Fireplace From The Sky”, was launched in Might 2012 through Razor & Tie. The CD bought round 10,000 copies in the USA in its first week of launch to debut at place No. 38 on The Billboard 200 chart.

SHADOWS FALL drummer Jason Bittner is at present taking part in with OVERKILL, whereas guitarist Jon Donais is a member of ANTHRAX.

Donais and SHADOWS FALL guitarist Matt Bachand not too long ago launched a brand new venture known as LIVING WRECKAGE, during which they’re joined by guitarist Matt LeBreton (DOWNPOUR),drummer Jon Morency (LET US PREY) and vocalist Jeff GardDEATH RAY VISION.