“If there weren’t bumps in the road, it would have been a shit record,” he then adds, “because that’s complacency and that’s settling.”Īddiction issues aside, recent years have been a season of uncertainty and change for the band. Somebody wants to fire another guy, somebody’s unhappy with someone’s lifestyle. “There was always somebody fucking quitting. “This album has not been fucking easy to make,” Ivan counters.
Ivan recently posted a video online of himself smashing through a wall at his house to demonstrate his energy on the new album – on the face of it, an encouraging sign of creative life. “His range is different now than when he’s drinking, and stronger in many ways,” Churko says of Ivan’s vocals. These were signs of Ivan taking back control of his body and personality, after years of boozing and deterioration. The vivid tattoos on his head are markers for a new stage in Ivan’s reconstructed life – there’s a mohawk tattoo made to look like reptilian scales and feathers on his scalp, and a phoenix in flight marks his first year sober. Ivan is here with his musical life-partner, guitarist Zoltan Bathory, and longtime producer Kevin Churko, listening to several of the 14 songs recorded for their new record. It’s painful as a motherfucker to hear some of it because it’s still so fresh.” “To hear this takes me to places that I’ll never be able to escape,” Ivan says between tracks that chart his most recent nightmares and unexpected survival.
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