If anyone in Theory of a Deadman might object to the band veering away from guitar-driven rock to a more pop-sounding approach, the likely suspect would be guitar player Dave Brenner.

But Brenner believes the less-is-more guitar approach of Swedish producer Martin Terefe on 2017’s “Wake Up Call” was a better showcase for his playing.

Those early albums had so many layers of guitar, he said, “Sonically, it was this wall of sound. It gets hard to differentiate what is making these sounds. Martin’s deal is more organic — ‘I don’t want to have 10 guitar tracks. I want to have one.’ It feels like you’re connected to the guitar parts better. All of the sudden, your part has a voice. Before it was lost.”

The approach was a commercial success. “RX (Medicate),” with a stripped-down acoustic guitar arrangement backing verse vocals with more staccato, hip-hop flow, became the third No. 1 hit on the Billboard mainstream rock chart for Theory — Tyler Connolly, lead vocals and guitar; Brenner, guitar and backing vocals; Dean Back, bass and backing vocals; and Joey Dandeneau, drums and backing vocals.

It also is the band’s most-streamed track on Spotify, outpacing old favorites like “Bad Girlfriend” and “Hate My Life.”

Fans can expect a similar approach with the band’s next album, which probably will release in early 2020. The lead single, “History of Violence,” was released Wednesday.

“I just saw the video for the song this morning,” Brenner said during a telephone interview last week. “It’s awesome. I’m super excited. Tyler takes on some heavy, serious subjects, which was never part of our history before ‘RX.’ The success of that song afforded us the freedom … The first single is about domestic violence. There’s zero band performance. It’s like a mini movie, very impactful. We’ve never done anything like that before. You get to the point in your career when you want to use your voice a little more.”

That’s the only new song fans will hear when the band plays Tuesday at Packard Music Hall.

“We don’t really road test (songs). We all have the view, when you hear the music for the first time, let them hear it how we meant for them to hear it. Then when they like the music, they can hear it live. Especially in the digital age when everyone has a cellphone. You see your music playing on Instagram. Man, this isn’t how we want people to hear it,” Brenner said.

Mahoning Valley fans have been hearing Theory’s music for as long as the band has been a touring act. The band has played local venues as small as The Cellar in Struthers and as big as the Covelli Centre in Youngstown. Brenner admitted he doesn’t have any strong memories of those past local gigs, but Ohio always has been one of the band’s strongholds.

“When our band started in 2002, were were a young group of guys from Vancouver, British Columbia, and when we stated touring in the states, it did feel like Ohio was the rock market for us. Every time we were in Ohio, it felt like we were playing for our kind of fans. It felt like a home state for us in the U.S. It never felt like we had any bad shows there,” he said.