INTERVIEW // ROYAL THUNDER
"I don’t know what it is but I’ve always loved the road. I feel centered, I can speak for all of us..."
"We’ve never sat down and said “Let’s try a sad song or a futuristic song.” We’ve just never talked about it, it’s just genuinely what it is." truth is that we don’t know where the hell we’re going or what we’re doing. And then in the center there’s an egg and I see that as something delicate and pure. It’s like new and fresh and it’s the center of what’s getting to you, like a precious thing, once you get there, just be careful with it and take care of it. That’s kind of what the egg represents. Not that Orion did any of this on purpose, but we found all that symbolism and being in nature I don’t think you can’t be grounded or centered unless you’re in nature and that’s like a cleansing and the birds flying and soaring over, being free and open. There’s just so
many little things in it. The inside of the artwork is my favorite part, because it’s pictures of Josh and I took while we were on tour that were on our Instagram. About the title of this record, does it have some connection with this cover art? Yeah! Crooked Doors came about when we were on tour and we were lost. We were leaving some coffee shop and we got lost and we were like “Do we turn right or left?” We were looking everywhere and it was like “Where the hell are we?” and then one of us said “Oh man, there are some crooked doors”. We all looked and there was this set of
big garage doors and they were totally... I don’t even know how they got away with this... that is weird. How could you mess it up like that? And then I remember we were like “We should name that for an album because that could actually mean a lot of things” and it ended up as the title of our album.
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Crooked Doors is out now via Relapse Records 49