With their impressive beginnings in the mid-90s/early 2000s, STABBING WESTWARD returns more than 20 years later with a new album!
To recreate that original chemistry, the band recruited legendary producer John Fryer to lead them once again.
Fryer, whose production credits include Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, 4AD, Cocteau Twins, and Love and Rockets, first worked with Stabbing Westward on their best-selling early releases Ungod (1994) and Wither Blister Burn + Peel (1996).
Chasing Ghosts was also mastered by Tom Baker who, like Fryer, worked with Stabbing Westward on their early releases and is part of the reassembled production team on the latest album.
The lineup of Stabbing Westward includes Carlton Bost (guitars and programming) and Bobby Amaro (drums). According to Walter Flakus, "It feels like we've been working on this album for a long time, trying to get it right. With the help of John Fryer and COP International, everything fell into place. We are so excited for the world to finally hear the album." adds Christopher Hall: "It's great to be back and working with John Fryer and Tom Baker again, it was amazing and I felt like I was making a pure old-school Stabbing Westward album. I was so excited to have the opportunity to return to the very roots of SW by working with John again. John really helped us develop our sound on our first album and then helped us make a huge leap forward with our second album. Even though this is our 5th album, after such a long break, it feels like a new beginning and it's really cool to have John at the helm again.
The album features artwork by David Seidman (an artist who has also worked with Coheed And Cambria and is known for his ethereal and surreal images).