Hello everyone!
Thanks for the warm welcome!
To answer your questions: Yes, I'm in Katagory V... the bassist to be precise!
The new album, from how the demos sound right now, will be more in the vein of
Present Day, but with a bit more thrash influence on some songs and more melodic/hooks on others. Both our earlier albums are definaly diffrent from each other, which was what we wanted at the time, as we didn't want to paint ourselves into a corner sounding the same all the time on each release, and we were trying to develope our own identity.
A new breed of Rebellion was a bit of a musical evolution/experiment for us in our progressive metal influneces and sound, and we still see it as a solid heavy metal recording. But, with the new album, we are confident that we have melded both worlds of Katagory V, and plan on using this forumula in the future...
There will defaintly be more straight-ahead true U.S.-style metal songs on the new album, but just like
Present Day, there will be progressive tendancies abound as well.
We didn't realize until after
A New Breed... was released, (and were very suprised!), how many German fans we had, and how many of them loved
Present Day, so I can gaurantee that the sound/style will return.
I doubt there will be a 2004 release, as we will be recording the album from Spetember through November, and we still need to make sure a label(s) is secured for this one, which we are still negotieting. But, we are indeed shooting for early 2005 for sure!
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Dustin
NP: Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi