Device frontman David Draiman(who you may remember from that other little band called Disturbed!)recently spoke to Metal Riot about starting fresh with Device’s self-titled debut; the direction that the album has taken; what it’s been like working with the many star guests appearing on the album and more!
Metal Riot: Howd it feel to get all these friends youve made over the years involved on this? That mustve felt pretty great.
Draiman: Its very, very surreal, man. Just to look back at the finished product and see the list of names.The fact that I can even say and use the word friends and utter these peoples names in the same sentence is staggering to me. I have such respect and reverence for all of them. Im just very, very humbled and very grateful to have them on the record. The Lzzy thing was something wed been talking about for years and years and years ever since she first opened up for Disturbed with Halestorm back in the day. Tom and Serj and I have been friends for years. Weve known each other for quite awhile. Theyre amazing guys. Both of them. We often get together for dinner when I am in town. We make it a habit to see each other socially, regardless. Wed been talking about something together for years. Potentially something for charity, maybe together. So, this is an opportunity where it wasnt a System record. It wasnt a Rage record or an Audioslave record. It wasnt a Disturbed record. In all those bands, none of them ever featured guests. It was never a thing. With Device, there were no rules. So I said, You know what? Why dont we do that. I already have Lzzy on one of these tracks. Let me reach out to those guys. We actually ended up finalizing the arrangement of what Tom was going to be doing musically in Opinion and what Serj was going to be doing vocally in Out Of Line over dinner at Serjs house. We decided to donate a portion of the proceeds from both tracks to their charity Axis Of Justice. Kill a bunch of birds with one stone and get to have two amazing musicians on the record who Ive wanted to work with for years anyway. This is all during the week I was mixing in L.A.
You can read the entire interview over at Metal Riot.
