Credit: Jimmy FontaineClaudio Sanchez is back in the ring again…as The Prize Fighter Inferno.
In April, the Coheed and Cambria frontman shared a track called “More than Love” with his long-dormant solo project, which hasn’t released any new music in eight years. But as Sanchez tells ABC Audio, the quarantined state of the world has given him an opportunity to return to Prize Fighter.
“When Coheed cycles, it’s really hard for me to justify taking time away from the band to do something like this,” he explains. “I feel guilty, actually.”
Now, though, Sanchez feels that “time is at a standstill,” adding, “It’s sort of bought me time to really resurrect this project.”
“More than Love,” Sanchez explains, was essentially born out of him experimenting with a synthesizer. He’s also working on another track, called “Stay Where You Are,” about his late grandfather, who died recently — though not of COVID-19 — at age 100.
“It was really difficult for us to say our goodbyes to this 100-year-old man that was very important to us,” Sanchez says.
Sanchez currently has five Prize Fighter songs “mixed and mastered,” including one featuring Coheed’s Josh Eppard, and a full album is in the works.
In addition to making new music, Sanchez is continuing to grow his signature hair, though given all the time he has at the moment, the thought of cutting it has crossed his mind.
“It pokes in every once in a while,” he says. “I’m, like, ‘I’ve got some time here to just fool around.’ But for the most part, there’s just so many other things [to think about], so it doesn’t take too much of my time.”
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