Capturing on a feeling in the studio recording so I think we pretty much made it that way, it’s an exciting album to listen to.ĪNTIHERO: Yeah. John Levén: Yeah, yeah, we don’t want to do that, we have the excitement of being a band like when we first started out and generate passion and have excitement when you first started playing a new song. John Levén: Yeah pretty much before Bag of Bones album we used to have all the songs pretty much done and ready to record before we went in the studio but then we started working with Kevin Shirley on Bag of Bones and War of Kings, and Dave Cobb on Walk the Earth and they had a similar approach to recording and it’s pretty much, fast and it was live, keep it fresh.ĪNTIHERO: Yeah, certainly, a lot of bands don’t even do that these days, maybe even bands don’t even meet up in the studio, they swap a lot music files online and maybe create an album where all the band members aren’t even in the same room. John Levén: Yeah, we recorded it at Abbey Road Studios and we had pretty much ten or eleven song ideas but we never really made them really finished before we went in the studio because the band do some writing in the studio so we finished up all the songs in the studio and we just kept banging them out playing and recording live.ĪNTIHERO: Is that something that you’ve always done, you prefer to work that live chemistry and create songs in the studio or did you generally in the past come to the studio with all the songs already done? John Levén: Well, we try to every time we record an album we try to do something different I think that we do that pretty much each time.ĪNTIHERO: What about the recording process, did it differ maybe in comparison to your previous album War of Kings? Did you do anything differently to create that unique sonic difference? John Levén: Yeah, it’s coming out 20th October.ĪNTIHERO: Just listened to it, it nearly seems like the band’s got a different sound. Okay, I’m here to talk a few things and firstly let’s discuss the new Europe album. ![]() Ahead of the album’s release, I managed to Walk The Earth with their bassist, John LevénĪNTIHERO: I’m good. Walk the Earth builds on the classic Europe sound but additionally showcases and adds some different elements to the established mix. The band are set to join rock legends Deep Purple next month around the UK arenas which will also tie in with the promotion of their new album release. Walk the Earth stands above anything in the band’s musical discography yes, even my favourite, Wings Of Tomorrow. ![]() Fast forward two years and another Europe album release which builds and improves on its predecessor. 2015’s War of Kings represented a superb release and was in my top 3 albums of that year. If anything, I feel that the band have become harder edged in recent years. The series of albums since their reformation have illustrated an evolving music machine that has only improved rather than mellowed with age. However, where many bands did not return, Europe regrouped and returned stronger and reinvigorated. True, the band had a brief hiatus like many other bands when the music industry changed and reshaped itself. ![]() However, dig a little deeper and the fact that the band are still around in 2017 affirms a band with a solid back catalogue of songs who continue to tour regularly all over the world and also continue to release quality and multi-faceted albums. To many rock fans Europe solely represent a band with a hit single in the eighties called “The Final Countdown”, and that is essentially all that they tend to know about them. Walking the Earth with Europe Bassist John Levén
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