The band kick back against “difficult second album” syndrome.
Six By Six return with their “harder kicking” second album, Beyond Shadowland on April 16 after the supergroup shrugged off worries about a difficult second album. Following on from the 2022’s well-received selftitled debut, keyboardist/vocalist Robert Berry says the three-pice, completed by Saga guitarist Ian Crichton and Saxon drummer, Nigel Glockler, became a stronger unit through heightened collaboration.
“When the band got put together, the chemistry worked right off. It was magical. So, the hardest thing was thinking about the success of the first album,” Berry reveals.
“The only parameter was to not make the same album again, retain who we are and we move it forward. The big change was that Nigel brought some songs in. I wish I could say that we learned a lot and we struggled a lot with this album, but really, the more collaborative approach pulled us all together.”
He continues, “Ian and I are a little bit like a Lennon and McCartney in the way we put our pieces together. There’s something cracked about Ian that makes him a genius. When he comes up with his parts you think, ‘Why would you even do that?’ I see myself as the glue for all his ideas. Then Nigel comes in and he’s got one of my favourite songs on the album called Titans. It’s totally different from most of the stuff we do, but we want to take risks.”
