Regardless of parting methods with Deliver Me The Horizon again in 2023, keyboardist/programmer Jordan Fish has retained an lively fingerprint on the trendy heavy music scene by means of his numerous exploits as a producer and songwriter. Along with working with Architects, BABYMETAL and Poppy, amongst others, he’s additionally maintained a decade-plus relationship with Machine Head.
His contributions to the Bay Space bruisers started again in 2014 with the album “Bloodstone & Diamonds“, to which offered preparations, keyboards and numerous post-production facets. That relationship has continued since, most lately on Machine Head‘s newly launched eleventh studio album “UNATØNED“. Talking with Full Steel Jackie [via Loudwire], Machine Head‘s vocalist/guitarist Robb Flynn lately shared the next of that continued collaboration:
“I actually really feel like we’ve received a report that’s received a whole lot of layers. I’m actually stoked as a result of I’ve about 4 collaborators that I work with and so they form of deal with all just like the keyboards and the piano stuff that I can hear and I play on guitar and I simply say, ‘Hey, flip this into this sound or no matter.’
I’m lucky sufficient to work with Jordan [Fish] from Deliver Me the Horizon. He’s been a decade lengthy collaborator of mine. I began working with him on the ‘Bloodstone and Diamonds‘ report. And on this report I mentioned, ‘Hey, I actually need you to be a part of each tune and even if you happen to don’t find yourself on any of the songs, I simply need you to have the ability to collaborate with me and take a look at some stuff and see the place it goes.’
And it turned out actually, actually cool having him be part of it as a result of he actually simply introduced this depth and this dimension that I don’t assume we’ve had earlier than in a pair songs. However to listen to all of it all through an album simply actually ties the album collectively extra so. Yeah, I’m very stoked.”
He went on so as to add:
“I’ve labored with him for 10 years now, so it doesn’t really feel like a brand new collaboration. It would sound like a brand new collaboration to folks, however we’re 4 albums deep with him. I simply really feel like he’s a part of the workforce at this level.
He’s form of a genius. He simply brings on this killer [mentality]. Typically that man, I’d be like, ‘Hey, do your concepts and put it on,’ and he’d ship me like 70 tracks of stuff.”
“Then me and my producer Zack [Ohren] would simply undergo the whole lot and decide what’s what. Typically it was identical to a hello hat or one thing or identical to a shaker or no matter, however then different occasions it’s a layers of strings and layers of piano and layers of sub stuff and funky textures.
We didn’t use it for each tune. It wasn’t wanted for each tune. However to me a thrash tune doesn’t want stuff like that. It simply wants thrash and guitars actually loud. Let’s flip these guitars up. However for different moments, it actually simply delivered to life the tune.”