Of Mice and Men’s sixth album, Earthandsky, is coming out this month, and it isn’t only the fans who are excited. According to drummer Valentino Arteaga, the band itself is hyped to have new songs out and to play them live at concerts!
“After touring the album Defy and going on a couple of album headliner runs, we really saw what was connecting with our audience and what our audience looks at us to create,” he said in an interview with The Sound Lab. “And [we saw what] they enjoy and what they want to come to spend their time rocking out. That’s important to us too. We love doing it as much as they love coming and watching and being a part of it.”
Arteaga also explained what we can expect of the new album: “We took what we felt like were some of the strongest and best parts of what Defy was, then taking a self-reflection and all of the Of Mice and Men albums and songs that we play in our setlist or older songs we’ve added into our setlist.”
Should we be worried that Earthandsky would sound like a best-of compilation album, then? Not according to Arteaga: “We’ll never write the same song twice, but there is a way of capturing energy through music and being able to say it in a different way,” he asserted.
