COLD STOP TO DRINKING HABIT LEADS TO PAIN

The biggest challenge in getting Cold’s new album, A Different Kind Of Pain, done was in having singer Scooter Ward clean up his act. The band’s was faced with switching labels, losing a guitarist and having to re-invent their music, but it was Ward kicking the bottle that really made the album come to life.<

The band was asked what the biggest obstcle as in getting the album done and Ward flat out admitted it was conquering his alcohol addiction.

“Me becoming sober and being postivive about everything and just living in the now and just focusing on what we needed to do and just clairty, you know?”

So what led to Ward’s realization that the bottle wasn’t the answer? He said it was being faced with his own mortality.

“Oh it was easy. It was was either die or become a better person. So, it was easy. I had no problem doing it. It wasn’t a traumatic experience where it took months or whatever. I was like, ‘I’m tired of living that way.’ So, I just woke up one morning and decided to change my life.”

Cold once again find themselves switching labels, from Lava to Atlantic. A Different Kind Of Pain is the band’s first album since 2003’s Year Of The Spider. The band is on a headline tour to support the album and its first single “Happens All The Time.”