Arctic Monkeys Compare New Song To Black Sabbath

The third album from the acclaimed Arctic Monkeys is due out for release this year and is being produced by Josh Homme, best known for his work as the frontman for Queens Of The Stone Age. Singer Alex Turner spoke with Nme.com about how writing for the album began and a track you can expect to hear on the band’s currently untitled third album.

Turner says that the band began working on their record last summer after performing at the Latitude Festival. "We went to Latitude, ripped it up, wrote on our faces and eventually wrote some songs," he says. "We spent the first day there on the most complicated riff you've ever heard."

"It goes round in seven-and-a-half-time," he continues. "We used it in the end, it's on an intro. It was like [Black] Sabbath."

Fans looking forward to the new record likely wont have to wait long as the band has said they plan to release it before their performances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals this August. Additionally, you can check out the band’s YouTube page and watch drummer Matt Helders’ video blog. His most recent video, "The View From… The Birthday Boy…," features clips of the band rehearsing new material.

Report by David Lowe-Bianco.

Comments

[slann101]

oh look at you alex, trying to expand out of the indea fanboy scene?

'A bit like black sabbath'? I doubt it.

[CrowLord]

Arctic Monkeys didnt play at latitude last year, they went as punters. pretty big mistake there, 5 mins research could have found that out

[webbtje]

Since when does 7/4 = Black Sabbath?

[steve!]

lol
i highly doubt itl sound like sabbath
and sabbs arnt a band for odd timings haha
there mostly very straight forward

[rainmaker13]

i really hate when people compare themselves to sabbath. Arctic Monkeys will never sound like sabbath and i think its just pathetic that because he's working with Homme, who is in a non indie band, that he has to say things like that. It's like he's trying to pretend that Arctic Monkeys are heavy. You can't compare indie to doom metal.

[imsimon]

How do you know that they haven't changed their sound dramatically? Don't dismiss them just on their previous work, bands change all the time, Arctic Monkeys are one of those bands.

[folklore666]

Sigh... sounds like Alex is starting to pick up a sort of Noel Gallagher like Attatuide

[Comeback Kiddd]

sounds a little bit exaggerated

[ejayhawk789]

You guys are talking like he said the whole album is going to sound like Sabbath. He said one riff in an intro of a song sounded like Sabbath. Stop crying that they can never sound like them or that Alex Turner is becoming Noel from one little comment that he probably thought nothing about.

[frankv]

dancesisidance wrote:

How do you know that they haven't changed their sound dramatically? Don't dismiss them just on their previous work, bands change all the time, Arctic Monkeys are one of those bands.

While I agree with you and think people should stop seeing this band as just another indie band, I don't think we can judge their ability to change sounds yet as they've only released two albums yet.

[lutfish]

Gotta love the misleading titles and the ones who doesn't read the article, just make a comment based on the misleading title.
hah.

[LegsOnEarth]

As much as i despise this band, im intrigued.

[Sylvanus]

LegsOnEarth wrote:

As much as i despise this band, im intrigued.

Same, I seriously doubt it's complicated though.

[joker_thief]

lutfish wrote:

Gotta love the misleading titles and the ones who doesn't read the article, just make a comment based on the misleading title.
hah.

true. alex turner half jokingly compares ONE riff in a song and now all the 14 year olds compare that to a band that was already done before there birth. classic.

[Mr Jeb]

what.....

[Ironpriest]

Lol when Arctic Monkeys mean "heavy", they refer to songs like brianstorm and the start of view from the afternoon. He doesn't mean Children of Bodom or Extreme Opeth riffs!

[thewylde89]

i cant believe its being produced by josh homme.
josh homme secret indie mug?
my worlds been turned up side down.

[DrPooh]

You know you hate a band when you desperately want them to fail for coming up on my computer screen.

[DrPooh]

Oh and why is Alex trying to get all technical? About two years again he didn't know a single scale other than pentatonic and didn't know was vibrato was!

[The Rev Rules]

DrPooh wrote:

Oh and why is Alex trying to get all technical? About two years again he didn't know a single scale other than pentatonic and didn't know was vibrato was!

maybe because, in two years, he has got technical?

two years doing nothing but music all day would probably increase your knowledge of it?

and he didnt even say the song is like sabbath?
he said they used this riff...on an intro...And thats it.

and yeahhh, how dare josh homme work with a band a different genre, hes only allowed to work with bands that sound exactly like his isnt he?!?!
cos thats all hes allowed to be interested in isnt it?!

oh dear.

[link no1]

and he didnt even say the song is like sabbath?
he said they used this riff...on an intro...And thats it.

hang on there,

"We used it in the end, it's on an intro. It was like [Black] Sabbath."

The Rev Rules, you are a retard, read the ****ing artical before you comment like that.

that being said, I really cant see artic monkeys doing something to overly technical, true they are diffrent from most indie bands out there but there songs still revolve around easy baby step things. the only good member imo is the drummer

and the fact that they have 'the most complicated riff you have ever heard' is bullshit. i really want to hear this riff, and tbh i think i may need a fresh pair of boxers when i do cos these will be piss stained.

how dare they compare themselfs to sabbath, they will never be in the same league as them

[Pageandhammet12]

honestly, you all sound like morons.

They are talking about a riff. It can sound like Sabbath because it could could have the deep tone of Tony Lommi's riffs. Sabbath's riffs are not that complex that some other band cant have something that sounds familiar. For example, Iron Man. That is one of the first riff anyone learns except smoke on the water. The solo's are what are complex. I know sabbath has influenced my guitar playing so why cant it influence an indie bands music??

[jcool2003]

Pageandhammet12 wrote:

honestly, you all sound like morons.

They are talking about a riff. It can sound like Sabbath because it could could have the deep tone of Tony Lommi's riffs. Sabbath's riffs are not that complex that some other band cant have something that sounds familiar. For example, Iron Man. That is one of the first riff anyone learns except smoke on the water. The solo's are what are complex. I know sabbath has influenced my guitar playing so why cant it influence an indie bands music??

Because I said so.

[Donkey Fly]

The Rev Rules wrote:

DrPooh wrote:

Oh and why is Alex trying to get all technical? About two years again he didn't know a single scale other than pentatonic and didn't know was vibrato was!

maybe because, in two years, he has got technical?

two years doing nothing but music all day would probably increase your knowledge of it?

and he didnt even say the song is like sabbath?
he said they used this riff...on an intro...And thats it.

and yeahhh, how dare josh homme work with a band a different genre, hes only allowed to work with bands that sound exactly like his isnt he?!?!
cos thats all hes allowed to be interested in isnt it?!

oh dear.

Although you're like right om all of that - the fact of the matter is Artcic Monkey's are still shit...

[PauloLeyundo]

Ahhh mahn I can't wait for the third album!

[FretboardToAsh]

"It goes round in seven-and-a-half-time,"

lol, that's complicated? a member of the band I'm in does that almost standard, he does it all the time.

[Andragon]

Hmm I'm not a huge fan of the band, but that song "Brainstorm" sounds relatively heavy and fast as well. So this could turn out well.

[Jordmo]

metalheads still the kings of winding