Interview with Jeff
“These guys are an extremely busy bunch of musicians, and even with so many side projects going on within the band they are still very dedicated to their roles in Will Haven! They are already working on new material, and as well as this they are hitting this years Hevy Fest!” Your new album came out at the start of this year/late last year, so at this point how happy are you with the reception it has received so far? Absolutely, I don’t think we were too worried about the reception going into making this record, we just wanted to make a record we were completely happy with, something that shows progression and growth from the band, so when we finished we were excited with the way it came out, I was hoping will haven fans would like it but it’s been a while since we have put out a record so we weren’t sure what the reception was going to be, it has been awesome though, all the reviews I have seen have been very positive and it made a lot of top records of the year list, so we were really happy with the response.
How did you get to the album title 'Voir Dire' and what did you want your fans to take from the title? I think coming up with a title for the record and artwork is harder then actually writting the songs..I had a few names in mind but Grady emailed me one day and was thinking of calling it Voir Dire. I liked it right away. That word has multiple meanings but the meaning I took from it was ‘to speak the truth’. To me will haven has always been an honest band, our music has always been from the heart and nothing fake about it, so that word to me fit with this record because it came from an honest place. I think it’s a great name for a record, Grady is really good at coming up with stuff like that.
We've read that you guys are now working on some new material, so can you tell us a bit about how this is coming along so far, and maybe a bit about the direction of your new music? Yeah we are in the very early stages of working on new stuff, It took us a few years to make the last record because even when we finished a song we would go back and work on it and try to make it better, so it’s a long process, I find that I have an idea and after we work on it and come up with new parts it turns out completely different then I envisioned, which is a good thing. So I’m not sure how this new record will sound, I know it will be heavy and euphoric but the cool thing is not knowing how it will turn out until we walk out of the studio with a complete record. I know I’m excited to get back into it though, will haven is definitely a fun band to write music for. I always love seeing what we will come up with next.