Chevelle’s Dean Bernardini on Why ‘The North Corridor’ Represents ‘A Defining Moment’
If Chevelle’s new album The North Corridor sounds darker than the veteran hard rock group’s past few albums, that’s because the guys love playing in the dark. The follow-up to 2014’s La Gargola, due out July 8, takes listeners on a journey specifically engineered to play to the trio’s strengths as a live act.
“We have to play the singles that people know, and we always try to pepper in new stuff and stuff we like to play, which is usually heavier,” bassist Dean Bernardini, who makes up Chevelle with brothers Pete Loeffler and Sam Loeffler, tells Fuse. “I think this record was designed in a way to be more aggressive and more fun to play onstage, and that’s just going off the reactions we see from our perspective. You can tell when a crowd is into what you’re doing—I think that drove the darkness of this record. It was like, Let’s play more stuff that we love playing onstage!”
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