Last month drummer Tomas Haake demonstrated how he took a rough rhythmic concept and developed it into a song. Now Hagstrom tells The Jasta Show (via Blabbermouth). : "We're early in the writing stage� We're writing right now, but we're really early still.

"And me personally, I'm really attracted by the idea of taking something that is really household in metal. 'Bleed' is a good example that Fredrik [Thordendal, guitar] wrote. You have like a triplet thing that is so f***ing generic metal that it can't possibly get any more generic. But you do something with it that makes it come into a new territory. Put a little bit of a different [spin]� Not astronomically just rewrite the whole f***ing thing, but just tweak it a little bit. And I'm really attracted to that.

"Right now I'm doing this song that, in essence� it's the most tragic metal song you would ever hear, but it doesn't come across that way 'cause I just tweaked it that extra mile. And I know Tomas [Haake, drums] and Dick [L�vgren, bass] have been working on a lot of stuff that is really out there. So I think it's gonna be a pretty diverse album." Read more and listen to the interview - here.

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