I can’t think about being in a touring steel band into your 60s. Shit’s gotta be onerous sufficient for a 20-something, however to exit and play at such a excessive stage as you age? That’s spectacular. At 61 years outdated, Exodus guitarist Gary Holt‘s absolutely conscious of that and he says the band’s taken measures in order that they’ll need to work rather less sooner or later.
Throughout a current dialog with Germany’s Rock Laborious journal (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Holt defined that Exodus recorded 18 new songs whereas engaged on their subsequent album. The concept, he stated, was to work tougher now so the band can take a breather down the road.
“We simply determined we had been gonna work ourselves as onerous as we may and attempt to accomplish this. And the second’s 80 % recorded, ’trigger we did 18 songs. And so when it’s time for the following album, we go in and document two extra [songs], not 10 extra. After which I can go on trip. I’ve by no means had a trip in my life… We labored onerous. We had been within the studio for seven weeks, and in the future after we stopped recording, we had been on tour. So since March 2nd, I’ve been residence for 2 and a half weeks.”
We’ve recognized for some time that the band was engaged on two albums on the similar time. Nonetheless, pre-loading a second album forward of time is a fairly sensible transfer, actually. If you’re in enterprise for your self, which is successfully what you’re if you’re in a band, you don’t actually have an off swap. Doing one thing like pre-recording a buncha songs forward of time to carve out some sit back time for you and yours seems like a smart transfer made by a band that’s been round for 4 a long time.
At this level, we don’t know a lot about both of the brand new Exodus albums. In accordance with Holt, the primary one will likely be out “early subsequent 12 months”, with the second coming someday down the road.
As for the way the following album sounds? Holt didn’t maintain again in extolling how a lot followers had been going to get pleasure from it as soon as it drops.
“The album’s spectacular. We couldn’t be extra proud. It’s lovely. It’s crushing. It’s catchy — hits, punishing hits. It’s spectacular. There’s some stuff that’s so completely different for us, however it’s one hundred pc Exodus. You’ll go, ‘Holy shit.’”