In a new interview with Australia’s Subculture Entertainment, vocalist Sean Killian of VIO-LENCE — whose current touring lineup also includes drummer Adrian Aguilar (EXMORTUS),guitarist Miles Dimitri Baker (VOIDBRINGER, INTERLOPER, ex-RINGS OF SATURN),bassist Christian Olde Wolbers and guitarist Ira Black (VICIOUS RUMORS, HEATHEN, METAL CHURCH) — was asked if there are plans for him and his bandmates to record a new full-length album. He replied (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, for sure. We started working on some stuff, and then Phil [Demmel, VIO-LENCE‘s founding guitarist], he got a lot of great opportunities for himself — going out with LAMB OF GOD [as a touring guitarist] and doing some other awesome, great things. So that kind of paused [the songwriting process]… Phil‘s got a lot going on, not just with music, but his family and Marta, his wife, is in BLEEDING THROUGH and they do stuff, and they own a business.
“My friendship with Phil is more important than music,” Killian explained. “Together we write great. But I wanna add — Christian is a great writer. We’ve got Miles Dimitri Baker in the band; he’s another great creative brain. I wanna put some stuff together and release… I’d like to release a full-length record, but it’s kind of hard these days ’cause it takes… You don’t wanna do so many songs that you just start kind of creating songs that are just there to fill space. I never wanna do that, and neither does Phil or anyone else in this band. So the EP format is great for us. We can really focus and create tracks that we feel really positive about instead of trying to make 12 songs all at once: ‘Well, this we were gonna use on that song, but we need to fill space, so let’s use it on this song.’ I never wanna be in that position. And I know a lot of bands these days, doing 12-song records has gotta be difficult. And trying to produce them every other years has gotta be a challenge. I want the challenge to be not ‘Do we fill…