We Came As Romans Prepared to Carry on After Kyle Pavone’s Death

The band We Came as Romans’ world has been flipped upside down since singer Kyle Pavone died of an accidental overdose back in August of last year. And as they adjust to life on the road after tragedy, We Came As Romans are preparing to hit the studio for the first album since the devastating, life altering tragedy.

In a recent interview, vocalist Dave Stephens opened up about the band carrying on without their singer, and revealed that the remaining quintet is “currently writing some stuff” during its latest tour, with plans to hunker down in earnest during the summer. “We’ve been throwing a few demos around,” says Stephens, who’s sure that Pavone’s passing will be addressed in the new material. “I love that we’re going into the studio with so much to write about and something that hits home for all of us so hard. We’ve never had something so terrible happen, and I think it’s going to be therapeutic to write about it and be together and go through the whole process. I’m actually really looking forward to it.”

“Every record we make some kind of progression, so there’ll be a progression on this one, but I don’t think we’re going to do anything too drastic. It’s still gonna sound like We Came As Romans.”

And, Stephens adds, there will likely be some material that Pavone was working on before his death.

“He was always writing, and I’m pretty sure he gave Lou (Cotton), our guitarist, a few different things he wrote,” Stephens reports. “We’re gonna try and get into his laptop, too, ’cause I’m sure he had just files and files and files of stuff there, too. So that’s a goal. We would love to include him in this record as much as we can, aside from just writing about him.”

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