Thanks, that's not much, but it's nice to read a down-to-earth interview with reasonable people, for a change.
I'm a bit surprised by their songwriting process as described by their new guitarist: Rockenfield coming up with loose song structures, then LaTorre adding melodies (and likely lyrics) to it, and only then the riffs being composed specifically to fit into it? It's a bit weird, and doesn't sound too riff-focused an approach. Then again, it's a first with this particular line-up, and it also seems like they're in a very collective, cooperative and enthusiastic set of mind, so it might be more varied and spontaneous than that. Maybe he just gave an example of how it happened for some songs, and hopefully others Michael Wilton came up with, etc.
Coming back to the teaser, I find it more merits than I originally thought, although it's still very hard to tell with just a few seconds of a demo version of just a few songs. The melodies are great, and the guitar sound is okay. It's easily more cohesive and far closer to the old QueensRÿche than their previous shit, let alone Tate's solo/QueensRÿche-Of-Fire bullshit. So that's rather encouraging, for them at least.
