Altitudes & Attitude, the project between Megadeth bassist, David Ellefson, and Anthrax bassist, Frank Bello, are making finishing touches on their first full-length album, following their self-titled EP, which was\u00a0released back in January 2014. In a recent interview with the “White Line Fever” podcast, Ellefson gives details regarding their upcoming effort:<\/p>\n
“Actually, Frank and I have been in the studio a lot these past six months working on finishing\u00a0[the] full-length for the next release, […] we are literally finalizing, probably in the next two weeks – getting the final vocals and final bits done on it,” <\/em>Ellefson said, continuing to describe what the project means to them.<\/p>\n “It’s just this thing that… me and\u00a0Frank have this whole other side of us and this other spirit soars when the two of us get together and get in a room and start writing songs together….<\/em><\/p>\n “And it’s a beautiful thing. And what’s cool about it, we haven’t left bands; it’s kind of a side, vanity thing that we do… a vanity project.”<\/em><\/p>\n Ellefson appreciates that he and Bello get to ‘do what [they] do in Anthrax and Megadeth,’ and then separately expose a whole different side to themselves with Altitudes & Attitudes. For them,\u00a0it’s what keeps the project genuine and pure for Ellefson, as he doesn’t\u00a0view Altitudes\u00a0& Attitudes\u00a0as a “supergroup.”<\/p>\n “Me and Frank was not intended as a supergroup,” <\/em>he begins to explain; “[The project] was literally born out of me and Frank doing some bass clinics together, […] so that’s how Altitudes & Attitude started- it was for us to create some of our own original content for clinics, and then it spun off into [us] going out and hiring a guitar player and a drummer and actually going out and doing our own shows together- as a legitimate act, not as a clinic.”<\/em><\/p>\n The difference between this project and\u00a0‘supergroups’\u00a0according to\u00a0Ellefson is that\u00a0he believes ‘supergroups’ are mostly formed\u00a0with the\u00a0intention to sell and remain famous.<\/p>\n “To me, anytime the joy comes out of music, you’d better just stop, man, because really it kills… it kills the whole thing.”<\/em><\/p>\n Listen to the whole podcast including the segment with Ellefson HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"