You never know when that’s going to strike. We just got into a good flow, and we didn’t want to question it. Let’s keep going until we don’t feel like going anymore.” When we got up to twenty-four or twenty-five songs, we didn’t want to take any of the songs off so we decided to put out two albums. We basically said, “Let’s not stop at fourteen songs. We just got in a good groove, and everything was flowing really well. Jeremy Spencer: There was nothing left over. Q: Is there anything left over from the sessions? We wanted to release both albums on the same day similar to what Guns N’ Roses did back in the day with Use Your Illusion 1 & 2. We couldn’t just release a “fourth” record. Jason Hook: Yeah, because these were our fourth and fifth records, respectively, we knew we had better do something that was interesting. Q: Did that expanse foster experimentation? We had so much material that we had two choices either release all of it in some way or put half of it away for something else. 2, we had to figure out what songs would be on each. 1 had a deadline which needed to be met before Vol. We worked on all of this material, not even knowing which songs would end up where. Jason Hook: We didn’t actually get around to splitting these records up until the very last second. Q: How did you actually curate the albums? In other words, we didn’t want to have the second volume sound like it took a drastic turn in direction. To be totally honest, we shuffled the deck pretty evenly to try to continuity between both records. It’s basically supposed to be one massive volume of work spread out over too discs. The idea was to make it as difficult as possible for people to choose one over the other. Jason Hook: Ah, honestly, I thought the first volume would be considered heavier. Q: Do you feel The Wrong Side of Heaven & The Righteous Side of Hell, Vol.
There are always times where you think about it later like, “Perhaps we should’ve done this.” You have to accept an ending point and turn it in eventually though. Maybe I would switch that song to the other album!” so on and so forth. One guy would start, and we’d go, “Oh, that’s pretty good. That’s what we wanted to accomplish with that. We tried to space it out evenly and let it have a good flow. We wanted to make them well-rounded and take the listener on a journey rather than put ten songs that are identical on one and ten that are identical on the other. Jeremy Spencer: Basically, we tried to space out the records evenly and base it on a feeling.
We had a creative flow, and we ended up with a lot of songs that we thought were great and we wanted to release them all. There are no drastic differences because it’s the same time capsule, recorded in the same time. 2 may be a shade darker and heavier, but just a shade. We wanted to make sure that we separated all 26 songs into two batches where fans almost couldn’t have a preference between them. Zoltan Bathory: When we were separating the songs into two records, we had a certain criteria. Q: What are the biggest differences between ‘The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell, Vol. ‘THE WRONG SIDE OF HEAVEN & THE RIGHTEOUS SIDE OF HELL – VOLUME 2’ FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH’S ZOLTAN BATHORY, JEREMY SPENCER AND JASON HOOK