CHEVELLE vocalist / guitarist Pete Loeffler revealed to “The KiddChris Show” in Cincinnati’s WEBN radio station that your band is a free agent after fulfilling your contractual agreement with the longtime record label Epic. “We just finished our recording contract,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET) “How many bands can say that? We just delivered our last one to Sony/Epic, and we’re stopping here wondering what’s next. Where are we going now? Are we back to being an indie band? I mean, this is cool. This looks exciting. I do not know. I don’t know where we’re going now. Shall we start a record label? Do we do it ourselves? We are not one TikTok band necessarily; we don’t have that platform. “
He continued: “We are trying to change, but we haven’t changed much to lose its main fan base, and yet you want to grow, but you don’t want to be stuck in the same archaic model of the music business.”
Asked if he and his brother, CHEVELLE drummer Sam Loeffler, I still don’t know if they will sign again with Epic, Pete said: “The contracts suck, and we signed some crude. And we need to start trying to earn some money from our catalog, which is 10 albums deep, plus everything else. We didn’t make any money out of record sales, sales of albums. Everything goes to the major labels. A lot of people make money from us; we just don’t make money from the way business is structured. We just aren’t excited to come back on any kind of contract. label, wherever you go, there must be a special deal where you get something for your hard work.
He continued: “It would be nice to do something different and really make money from an album for the first time; it just didn’t happen for us. We sold six million albums for Epic Records, and they won 50 million dollars. It’s crooked. And the artist – just like [American stand-up comedian] Dave Chappelle said, he knows he signed an agreement with the Chappelle Show [‘Chappelle’s Show’] a long time ago, and it’s a crude business. It went to someone else, and they can put it on any platform they want, be it Netflix or HBO or whatever, and he went up to them and said, ‘Look, I know I did it, but it’s wrong – it’s still wrong. You need to compensate the artist. ‘And that is where we are ending too. It is a terrible business model for the artist. “
Pete went on to say that Epic still retains the rights to CHEVELLEthe entire catalog of. “The fact of the matter is that when you sign a contract with a record company, they have it for, like, 20-something,” he explained. “We said, ‘We would sign again with you if you just sent part of the pipeline to us.’ All profits, they keep everything. ‘And if you send a little bit, maybe we can talk about it, [about] continuing. ‘I mean, there are some good people in Epic. And then, in many ways, we feel burned. “
CHEVELLEthe last album of, “Niratias” (Nothing Is Real And This Is A Simulation), was released on March 5. “The North Corridor” was recorded throughout 2019 and 2020 with the longtime producer Joe Barresi (TOOL, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE), CHEVELLE.
“Niratias” It entered the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. It debuted in the 9th position and was the first launch to enter the Top 10 in more than three weeks. Furthermore, “Niratias” got several other accolades. This week, the LP debuted impressively as No. 1 in several Advertising panel charts, including rock album, alternative album, hard music, general album, digital album and Internet album. “Auto Destroyer”, the album’s acclaimed first single, also topped the Active Rock radio chart this week, scoring CHEVELLE12th nº 1 single in the format.
“The North Corridor” debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 album chart and produced the No. 1 single Mainstream Rock, “Joyride (Omen)”.
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