The buckets of internet venom spewed at Arizona death metal titans Job for a Cowboy have seemingly made them stronger: the noticeable shift in sound and focus between their debut EP, Doom, and their debut full length, Genesis, is the sound of a band evolving nicely. While Doom is mired in the genre-shifting madness that was the style at the time, Genesis is serious fucking death metal, a nod to their scraggly-haired forefathers while looking to move onward to new terrain. With another full length due this year, the band show no signs of stopping.

You guys are working on a new album, right?

Yes.

Is there going to be a drastic shift with this one and Genesis?

It’ll be a little bit of a shift again, but nothing too drastic. We definitely are coming in with new influences with the next record. It’s still early on, but it’ll sound a little different than Genesis for sure. We’re just learning from our mistakes and nit picking everything and evolving as a band.

Do you have any idea yet of what we can expect? What it’s going to sound like?

I don’t know. We got a new drummer [Jon Rice], and it’s going to be his first time recording and playing with us. It’s been going awesome so far [The band has since announced the departure of guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju and named Al Glassman as his replacement. -Ed.]. It’s still really early in the works. We just have pieces of the puzzle laying around. We’re just going to have to put it all together at this point. I don’t know it’s hard to say. I don’t know how to pinpoint it.

Is it going to be a concept record?

No, I don’t think we’re doing a concept record. I think with the next record we’re going to go a bit more into politics. I want to write about parts of the world that are fucked up. Like in Northern Korea is blocked off from the entire world. It’s its own little society. I’m just trying to pinpoint and find little things that are going on in the modern day and age. There are things that are so fucked up and nothing is really being done about it.

That’s cool. Anything else you want to add?

Download our record. If you like it, buy it. Our next one will be out hopefully in July. That’s it!