MTVoid, the duo consisting of Tool bassist Justin Chancellor and Sweet Noise vocalist Peter Mohamed, released their debut album, Nothing matters, in 2013. The LP saw the pair (along with a few guests) incorporating their revered specialties into new musical and theoretical avenues. Packed with philosophical insights, culturally specific attributes, and cutting-edge techniques, it was a refreshing and rewarding art rock journey as only they could have created.
However, for various reasons, the project remained silent until last November, when MTVoid released the sequel. The knot of matter, pt. 1.
A “pandynamic tapestry of sound and thought, twisted and tense, a connection of ideas remotely fused between Los Angeles, California and Swarzędz, Poland” – as Chancellor states in the album's official press release – the new LP finds the duo pushing themselves further. creatively and conceptually. With the help of Isabel Muñoz-Newsome (Pumarosa), Andy Morin (Death Grips) and Aric Improta (Night Verses, ex-Fever 333), The knot of matter, pt. 1 offers absolutely everything fans could have hoped for (and then some).
The duo recently met with Strong consequences to discuss what led to the resurrection of the project, what makes it The knot of matter, pt. 1 a fitting but surprising successor to Nothing matters, and more. Pick the new MTVoid album hereand read our full interview with the duo below.
Can you talk a little about the decade-long hiatus between albums and what led to restarting the project?
Justin Chancellor: Well, I mean, I was very busy with my day job. Obviously, Peter also had a lot of things to do. Multiple sound projects. So, yeah, the first album we made was kind of an experiment. Consider it more like we're the ones getting our feet wet. Just a demonstration. It was us trying to understand how to use a proper mixing console together. We actually did it together in Los Angeles. Once we did, Peter returned to Poland and we moved on with our lives.
We made some tracks together, but it was COVID that really pushed us to make this next album. We found ourselves with a lot of free time and had accumulated some ideas along the way. Since we had already gotten pretty good at sharing files and making other tracks with some of Peter's friends, we realized we could progress pretty quickly just doing this in our own studios in Poland and Los Angeles. to spur us on.
We thought, “Oh wow, now's the time.” We never really had a schedule before because we had so many other things to do, but very quickly we realized that this was the moment we should seize and we moved forward.
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