\u201cI\u2019ve always been pretty involved when it comes to Power Trip in the studio. I didn\u2019t write anything for Riley, but just me and him having to write songs together, we had to be on the same page and understand how to\u2026 He knew what I wanted him to do in terms of where I wanted things to be, and I know the formula and I know how I like to write songs and how we\u2019ve always written songs. And I have some of those instincts as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I was, like, \u2018Well, I\u2019m gonna take what I know from what we\u2019ve always done and what I did with Riley and everything I learned from him and we learned working together, and let\u2019s try to write songs. I think we can do it.\u2019 And so I didn\u2019t know if it was gonna work at all. And then, obviously, we started working together and it was fun. And he\u2019s a talented lyricist and singer in his own right. And there wasn\u2019t the pressure of, \u2018We\u2019re making a Power Trip record,\u2019 or something. It\u2019s, like, \u2018Let\u2019s just start a new band and have it be different and have it be its own thing.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that kind of just led to playing more shows and bigger shows and having some success with Fugitive out of the gate and building his confidence \u2014 playing bigger shows and playing his own songs and songs with me. And I think over a couple years, I think by the next time the Power Trip idea came around, like, \u2018Hey, do you wanna try to sing these songs and see what happens?\u2019, he was ready and he was, like, \u2018Yeah. Why not? I\u2019m comfortable playing with you, and I feel good with what I\u2019m doing right now. Why don\u2019t we give it a shot?\u2019 And he was down. And he had to be, because it\u2019s a lot to put on your shoulders. And he has a good head on his shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
With the new material now in the works, Ibanez opted to give fans an idea of what Power Trip sounds like with Gilmore at the helm and how it differs from Gale.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOf course we\u2019ll always honor him when we can. We are moving forward, we have to focus on the future, but that doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019ll forget him or not honor him. Of course that\u2019s always gonna be a thing that we\u2019ll do and we\u2019ll try to make sure of. But when it comes to moving forward, we\u2019re gonna write music how we wanna write it.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, like I said before, all the things and the elements of the formula that we\u2019ve always had, I wanna try to keep those as much as I can, obviously, but Seth\u2019s a different person, he\u2019s a different singer, he\u2019s a different lyricist. So, is he gonna try to write lyrics exactly like Riley would? Well, I would hope he wouldn\u2019t. Those were Riley\u2019s words, that was his personality.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean that we don\u2019t believe in everything and still wanna be in that realm anymore \u2014 of course we do \u2014 but I don\u2019t write the lyrics, so I can\u2019t 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\u2019s not really for me to decide. I think he\u2019s his own person.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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\u2019t know what he would be writing about in this day and age either. I don\u2019t know what he would wanna talk about. I can\u2019t really speculate on that. He\u2019s not with us anymore, sadly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would feel that would be like trying to fill his shoes, and that doesn\u2019t feel right. I think he deserves that space. I think with Seth, he\u2019s his own guy. He can handle his own thoughts and ideas. I don\u2019t think we would do anything that would, for any reason, go in opposition to anything that he wrote about. But he\u2019s not gonna try to write the same songs or anything like that, so it\u2019ll be something different. But I can\u2019t imagine it\u2019d be anything that people that like us wouldn\u2019t be interested in or be stoked on. But [it\u2019s] not really my call.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.metalsucks.net \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After touring with the help of Skourge and Fugitive frontman Seth Gilmore behind the mic, a reunited Power Trip has given fans a chance to honor the talent and legacy of the late Riley Gale. Their powerful crossover thrash played well while on tour with Pantera not too long ago and fan reactions have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2151079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Power-Trip-Guitarist-Blake-Ibanez-Says-The-Band-Will-Release.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151080,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151078\/revisions\/2151080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}