During a recent interview with PowerOfMetal.cl from Chile, Todd La Torre was asked to reflect on his most significant impact on QUEENSRŸCHE‘s development since becoming their vocalist in 2012.
“Well, the key word you said there was ‘evolution’ because I was gonna say I think I’ve brought back a lot of the vocal acrobatics that were missing for a long time,” Todd responded (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “As far as the evolution of the band, I don’t know how to answer that other than the fact that the band is free to write as heavy a music as they want or not.
“There was a long period of time where heavy ideas were being stifled and were not being accepted. And so when I got into the band, I think that the chains were taken off and these guys felt like they could write whatever they wanna write without being told it’s too heavy, which I think is, again, contributing to that evolution. But I don’t know how I’ve contributed to the evolution other than just embracing the old catalog and performing those songs in standard tunings, like the records go, and really embracing the [debut QUEENSRŸCHE] EP record and performing it, or the entire album The Warning, things like that — playing all these songs that fans love to hear that they haven’t heard in a long time.”
Digital Noise Alliance, QUEENSRŸCHE‘s sixteenth studio album, came out in October 2022 on Century Media, with production by Chris “Zeuss” Harris, marking his third collaboration with the band after Condition Hüman and The Verdict.
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