Finger Eleven

They might have just achieved their goal of making an album that sounds like it's from both the past and the future.

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Canadian hard-rock quartet Finger Eleven are one of the most successful bands to emerge from the Great White North, which is maybe why they felt like they'd earned the right to down tools for a few years and put their feet up. Now, though, they are back with a new single titled Adrenaline, a song that proves their scintillating meld of ferocious riffs and anthemic hooks has not deserted them in the interim, and release an album of the same name next year.

Guitarist Rick Jarrett got in touch to bring us up to speed.

It's been a decade since you released your previous record. What's been the hold-up?

It was a perfect storm of things. I think there was probably genuine burnout because we've been doing this since we were in our teens.