In a new interview with Rock Sound, Knocked Loose frontman Bryan Garris talked about the band’s collaboration with Motionless In White.
The singer talked about how both collaborations with Chris Motionless and Poppy came about. “Interestingly, it happened with both songs, which had features. As fans of Motionless In White and fans of Poppy, what would we like them to do?”
The frontman also explained the band’s secret goal: “For Chris, his first verse in ‘Slaughterhouse 2’ is a fast double-time punk beat, specifically cause we wondered when was the last time we heard him scream over something like that. It was fun to step into their worlds and ask how we wanted to hear them, and we learned a lot from thinking like that.”
“Moving forward, it’s going to be how we approach guest features because it’s so much cooler and so much more organic. That’s so much better than just thinking, ‘We have this part, let’s throw another voice on it’. It also helped people gravitate towards it as well,” Garris added.
The bands came together for two different collaborations — first on ‘Slaughterhouse’ on MIW’s 2022 album, ‘Scoring the End of the World,’ and the next on ‘Slaughterhouse 2’ on KL’s album ‘You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To’ this year.
Garris admitted that making a second collaboration first came out as a joke, but later turned out to be better than they expected. “The idea to have Chris do that song with us started kind of as a joke, like a ‘What if?’ moment,” Garris told Kerrang!. “But then Drew [Fulk] just FaceTimed him. He was so excited by the idea.”
The singer added: “It took a few months to get his part back, but I’ll never forget listening to it in my car. I’m normally a pretty chilled-out, monotone guy, but I was gripping the steering wheel, just like, ‘Yes! He killed it!”
The band will continue their live shows on March 17, starting in London, UK.
