![]() It would stand out in the live set because of that.” “A very human song” If it was soft, it wouldn’t have had that impact. In a 2012 interview with Holland’s Face Culture magazine, guitarist Noel Hogan explained that “the heavier sound was the right thing for the song. ![]() “It came organically, because we were using our live instruments – we were plugging in a lot and we started to mess around with feedback and distortion,” she told Classic Rock. However, as Dolores O’ Riordan later revealed, the song’s beefed-up alt.rock sound wasn’t an attempt to jump on the grunge bandwagon. Recorded in Dublin with producer Stephen Street manning the console, “Zombie” featured pounding drums and churning guitars, representing a radical departure from The Cranberries’ signature sound. It was the most aggressive song we’d written.” ‘Zombie’ was quite different to what we’d done before. Even though it was written on an acoustic, it became a bit of a rocker. I took it into rehearsals and picked up the electric guitar and kicked in distortion on the chorus. “I remember being in my flat, coming up with the chorus, which was catchy and anthemic. ![]() “I wrote it initially on an acoustic guitar, late at night,” she told Classic Rock. However, unlike many Cranberries tracks that sprang from group collaboration, the formative ‘Zombie’ was composed alone by O’ Riordan during downtime from her band’s punishing tour schedule. “I remember being on tour and in the UK at the time… and just being really sad about it.”ĭeeply affected by the tragedy, O’Riordan began working on a song that reflected upon the event. “I remember at the time there were a lot of bombs going off in England and The Troubles were pretty bad,” singer Dolores O’ Riordan said in a 2017 Classic Rock interview.
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