Frank Carter: "I get the best stuff when I'm at my most uncomfortable"

When bands finish their debut album, they likely take a moment to bask in the achievement, tour it around a little, see how it goes and then start to think of a follow-up. Not Frank Carter. Fresh from laying down ‘Blossom' he and the Rattlesnakes jumped straight back in. The result? ‘Modern Ruin'.

The difference in the two albums is stark; the first feels more a capturing of a frantic moment in time, the latter a more explorative project. "Most bands they go in and they spend a long time labouring over this debut album like it's the important thing," he explains. "In a sense, it is. It's supposed to give your fans an idea of your band, the full scope of your band, but then what always happens is that you enter album two or album three and the band is trying to explore and challenge themselves and people get upset.

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Over the course of writing, they amassed over 40 songs, as the legend goes. Along the way, they found themselves being surprised at where they found themselves, and the last song on the album ‘Neon Rust' is one such detour that made the final cut. "That came to us very late in the game. It was not anything that any of us expected that we would write, but when we had written it, it just felt perfect. It felt very much us. It made a lot of sense. I think that was the last song we wrote and when we finished recording it in the studio we had a better understanding of ourselves as a band and the future that we could have, the potential that we had going forwards and it was really exciting."