Power Trip have officially confirmed plans to record new material with Seth Gilmore on vocals. In a new interview with Altars Of Metal, guitarist Blake Ibanez revealed that Gilmore is now ready to enter the studio.
Gilmore, who also fronts Fugitive, began performing with Power Trip when the band made their live return on December 1st, 2023 at The Mohawk in Austin, TX, marking their first show since the 2020 death of frontman Riley Gale. The band has since played a string of shows, with more dates ahead.
In the interviews Ibanez shared:
I think I had mentioned to him, after Riley passed away, I had talked about, ‘Would you wanna mess around with some of this Power Trip stuff?’ And I think at that point it was so fresh and so new, it was just kind of, like, ‘I don’t know. Maybe down the road.’ And I was, like, ‘Yeah, I get it.’ He’s in a band called Skourge, which is a hardcore band that has some crossover influences, some death metal influence.
So I’d heard the evolution of his voice and everything in that band. And I think around this time they had done a new EP or something, and his voice — he started to showcase what he could do, his depth to his voice, his range. And I was, like, ‘Whoa. Oh, I didn’t know you could do all that stuff.’ And not just that, but me and him having such a good relationship and him being such a nice guy that’s easy to work with, I was, like, ‘Well, why don’t we just try to write some songs and see what happens?’
Of course we’ll always honor him when we can. We are moving forward, we have to focus on the future, but that doesn’t mean that we’ll forget him or not honor him. Of course that’s always gonna be a thing that we’ll do and we’ll try to make sure of. But when it comes to moving forward, we’re gonna write music how we wanna write it.
Obviously, like I said before, all the things and the elements of the formula that we’ve always had, I wanna try to keep those as much as I can, obviously, but Seth’s a different person, he’s a different singer, he’s a different lyricist. So, is he gonna try to write lyrics exactly like Riley would? Well, I would hope he wouldn’t. Those were Riley’s words, that was his personality.
It doesn’t mean that we don’t believe in everything and still wanna be in that realm anymore,of course we do, but I don’t write the lyrics, so I can’t really control that. I want Seth to write about what he feels strongly about and what he wants to put his name on and sing every night. So that’s not really for me to decide. I think he’s his own person.
We all come from the same world musically, and we have similar tastes and everything. We want it to sound like Power Trip, we want it to sound like something we would do. But I would never tell him to write about this or that. Riley, he was always thinking and changing, and I don’t know what he would be writing about in this day and age either. I don’t know what he would wanna talk about. I can’t really speculate on that. He’s not with us anymore, sadly.
I would feel that would be like trying to fill his shoes, and that doesn’t feel right. I think he deserves that space. I think with Seth, he’s his own guy. He can handle his own thoughts and ideas. I don’t think we would do anything that would, for any reason, go in opposition to anything that he wrote about. But he’s not gonna try to write the same songs or anything like that, so it’ll be something different. But I can’t imagine it’d be anything that people that like us wouldn’t be interested in or be stoked on. But not really my call.
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