In the wake of the Bunkhouse’s sudden closing on Monday, Sunday’s show has been moved to Backstage Bar & Billiards.

What’s life like for a metal band at your level in 2015? It’s an interesting place to be. You have to put in a lot of hard work, and you definitely have to put in the miles—you have to go on tour and bust your ass writing stuff. … Some bands get lucky, I’m not gonna lie, but I feel if you put in the work, put in the time, you can make a living. We have for some time now.

What sort of goals do you guys have now, having recently released your fourth full-length? To stay on our upward trajectory. The records get better, and as musicians we get better. There’s a certain routine aspect to being in a band, and if we’re off for a very long time we miss it, like certain breeds of dogs—you need to take them out, they need to be walked. I think at a very basic level we’ve been conditioned, like, “Man, I want to get on a stage, I want to play, I want to turn my amp up, I wanna see my friends in other states and visit places.” They’re kind of like work vacations.

New album Restarter sounds like a return to an earlier musical style for Torche. Do you agree? I think it sounds taken back to [2007’s] In Return stuff, heavier and more direct, but I feel like it’s also very current to where we want to be as far as the energy. It’s very true to our live sound.

Did [previous album] Harmonicraft ruffle your fans’ feathers? We tend to do new things and keep ourselves entertained. We have our sound and our identity, but it allows us to revisit or explore an aspect of our sound as opposed to doing the same thing over and over. It’s very liberating and freeing and keeps it very exciting to us to not have limitations on our sound. I feel like Harmonicraft was more sonically tight and energetic in vibe and tone. It was upbeat rock and roll.

It’s been a decade since you released your first album. How has the writing process evolved over those 10 years? We’ve kept the same setup, as far as writing rather quickly, because we’re usually in a time crunch. We have members who live across Florida, and we really have to take advantage of the time we have together. So it’s always really long days, and we usually demo stuff and hear it the next day in order to really let it digest. I feel that over time we’ve really developed a way of working quickly and efficiently both in writing and recording live in the studio. You’re going to have those instances where you hit a wall, so to speak, but I feel that we always work around it together.

One thing I think spans all your records is the band’s pop sensibility, which is notable for a metal band. We all grew up with pop music or even rock and metal stuff that was catchy, that was about the songs. It was all sorts of custom melodies and hooks but that doesn’t mean you can’t get heavy. There’s so much you can do while still keeping it memorable, and that’s something that attracts us.

And except for a few outliers, your songs are usually pretty short, too. Is that intentional? Honestly, we try to let the music come together on its own. It’s very basic songwriting at first, and we very much let it roll. Its not in us to sit there and say, “Okay, for this song we want a super heavy Ramones-type part that goes into this shoegazey wash part that goes back around and does this Sabbath thing.” For us it’s like, “Hey man, here’s a riff.” And if people like it then we’ll jam with it. A lot of the stuff is done on the spot, and some of the stuff gets down to the wire.

Torche With Melt-Banana, Hot Nerds. July 26, 9 p.m., $20. Backstage Bar & Billiards, 702-382-2227.