Watchtower - Second EP In The Making
Rumors of Watchtower's demise are, apparently, greatly exaggerated. After several years of fans wondering what had happened to Watchtower after the 2016 release of their most recent EP Concepts Of Math: Book One, drummer Rick Colaluca claimed back in July 2020 that the band had no plans to tour or finish their much-anticipated, but never-released third album Mathematics. In a recent intervew with Into The Pit: The Metal Channel, however, frontman Alan Tecchio seemed to confirm that Watchtower are still alive and well, and they have slowly but surely been working on another EP entitled Concepts Of Math: Book Two.
When asked if Mathematics, or at least new music from Watchtower, will ever see the light of day, Tecchio said: "Yeah, yeah, for sure, so like those guys – all three of them - live in Texas but they don't ever really jam together. You know, they're not like an active band, so I guess that makes it easy on me because I'm up here [in New Jersey] anyway. But we are...we have pretty much the material for the second part of that EP so, Book Two, Concepts Of Math: Book Two. I've got one song in particular that I'm still working on, but it's really, really, I mean it's Watchtower, right? So it's not like just riffing and jamming into a riff. It's like math homework, you know? For me, anyway, I'm not a musician and I don't think on the level that those guys think on in terms of time signatures and key changes, and just complex riffs. I need to ingrain that into my brain, and then kind of feel what the voice should be doing and I kind of do think that the voice in Watchtower is what brings a lot of listeners in that might not like that kind of technical stuff. You know, because I try to make the voice a little more...yeah, like easier on the ears so you can be more approachable to the listner. So it's a bit of a struggle with those guys because they want to quantize my vocals and make them like drums perfectly in sync with every single thing that's happening in the song at every single moment, and I don't sing like that. You know what I mean, I sing, I hold notes, and I can add some notes and stuff."
When asked if Mathematics, or at least new music from Watchtower, will ever see the light of day, Tecchio said: "Yeah, yeah, for sure, so like those guys – all three of them - live in Texas but they don't ever really jam together. You know, they're not like an active band, so I guess that makes it easy on me because I'm up here [in New Jersey] anyway. But we are...we have pretty much the material for the second part of that EP so, Book Two, Concepts Of Math: Book Two. I've got one song in particular that I'm still working on, but it's really, really, I mean it's Watchtower, right? So it's not like just riffing and jamming into a riff. It's like math homework, you know? For me, anyway, I'm not a musician and I don't think on the level that those guys think on in terms of time signatures and key changes, and just complex riffs. I need to ingrain that into my brain, and then kind of feel what the voice should be doing and I kind of do think that the voice in Watchtower is what brings a lot of listeners in that might not like that kind of technical stuff. You know, because I try to make the voice a little more...yeah, like easier on the ears so you can be more approachable to the listner. So it's a bit of a struggle with those guys because they want to quantize my vocals and make them like drums perfectly in sync with every single thing that's happening in the song at every single moment, and I don't sing like that. You know what I mean, I sing, I hold notes, and I can add some notes and stuff."
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