I don't think we went in thinking, like, 'Oh, we need to sound old school or new or this.'' We really kind of just focused more on melodic hooks. Last November, La Torre told Canada's The Metal Voice about the musical direction of the new QUEENSRŸCHE material: 'It doesn't sound like 'The Verdict'. And our producer Zeuss, who did the last two QUEENSRŸCHE albums - he does all Rob Zombie's stuff he's a very seasoned producer, he does mixing and mastering, so he's a one-stop shop - he's down here from Massachusetts. 'Those days of renting thousand-dollar-a-day studios, we don't really need that anymore. And then, really, at my place, we're able to track all the guitars, bass and vocals. 'We did all the drums at a place in Clearwater - a huge home with the most amazing ceiling for a drum room,' La Torre continued. This past March, La Torre told FOX17 Rock & Review about QUEENSRŸCHE's new LP: 'Each song might have a little different attitude and we wanted to just use real amps and all the vintage, real stuff that was used throughout the history of QUEENSRŸCHE. I think as I said earlier, it's a full, all-encompassing QUEENSRŸCHE record that I think everyone is going to really enjoy.' Todd writes great lyrics, as does Eddie, and I wrote some lyrics, too. Eventually we had about 22 song ideas, and we had to wither that down to about 11 or 12 tunes.'Īs for the lyrical themes covered on 'Digital Noise Alliance', Michael said: 'A lot of the songs are our perspective on the current unrest in the world, especially in the United States, and whatever the music dictated to us for the lyrics. Then we would sit back and listen and if everybody was vibing on what we did during that day, we'd listen to all the parts and imagine where they would sit within a song structure and then kind of put them together from there. So, I'd come up with a riff and Zeuss would record it and Casey would get on the electronic drums and put a drum beat to it, and we'd file it and move onto the next riff and so on. This was going to a process where on-the-spot riffage, experimentation, improvisation and seeing what sticks was the way we wanted it made. But we then made a conscious decision between all of us that this album's process would not be songs being e-mailed to each, waiting for their approval back. I was just going to go hang out with Todd in Florida. I had no idea he had also invited producer Zeuss to come down from Massachusetts, as I hadn't brought along any guitars with me.

So, I went and visited Todd in Florida in late January of 2021. I talked to Todd and mentioned that in all that time I had been writing lots of little riffs on the guitar. Regarding the songwriting process for 'Digital Noise Alliance', Wilton said: 'I was living in Seattle at the time, and when you're isolated like that, it does weird things to your head space. It's got some very melodic moments, it's progressive, it's heavy metal and it's very album-oriented visual music that is going to be just a good all-around QUEENSRŸCHE album.' QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton told Metal Edge magazine about 'Digital Noise Alliance': 'It's an album that kind of stretches and encompasses the whole music genre of QUEENSRŸCHE.

The record was once again helmed by Chris 'Zeuss' Harris, who previously worked with QUEENSRŸCHE on 2015's 'Condition Hüman' and 2019's 'The Verdict' LPs. The track is taken from the band's sixteenth studio album, 'Digital Noise Alliance', which was released on October 7 via Century Media. The clip was directed by Thomas Crane of killDevil Films. QUEENSRŸCHE's music video for the song 'Hold On' can be seen below.

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