Did the faster pace of Paralyzed affect how the songs were actually written and recorded?
When you’re dealing with faster songs, you can mutate them and add runs and things that you couldn’t otherwise, because they wouldn’t fit. It was a lot of fun doing the second record, for me. When we recorded the first album, we really hadn’t played those songs live that much, and then after playing it live enough it doesn’t even sound like what’s on the record because we’ve had a chance to get into the song and get used to the song. It’s being played the same but it doesn’t sound the same because of effects and things like that. It all comes together really quickly when we decide we’re going to do a record. Kyle writes most of it, the majority of the riffs. We all contribute, but he’s the main songwriter. The lyrics too? Yeah. The first record is a lot of mystic type foolishness; all the imagery’s based on folklore. Kyle says the second record is all about the apocalypse. [Laughs] The whole record is pretty much about destruction, so yeah, lyrically it’s very different. Kyle’s funny.
