I can’t think about being in a touring steel band into your 60s. Shit’s gotta be exhausting 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 At 61 years outdated, Exodus guitarist Gary Holt‘s totally conscious of that and he says the band’s taken measures so that they’ll must work rather less sooner or later.
Throughout a current dialog with Germany’s Rock Arduous journal (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Holt defined that Exodus recorded 18 new songs whereas engaged on their subsequent album. The concept, he mentioned, was to work more durable now so the band can take a breather down the road.
“We simply determined we have been gonna work ourselves as exhausting as we might and attempt to accomplish this. And the second’s 80 p.c recorded, ’trigger we did 18 songs. And so when it’s time for the subsequent album, we go in and report 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 exhausting. We have been within the studio for seven weeks, and sooner or later after we stopped recording, we have been on tour. So since March 2nd, I’ve been residence for 2 and a half weeks.”
We’ve identified 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 reasonably sensible transfer, actually. Whenever you’re in enterprise for your self, which is successfully what you’re while 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 sensible 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 line with Holt, the primary one can be out “early subsequent yr”, with the second coming someday down the road.
As for the way the subsequent album sounds? Holt didn’t maintain again in extolling how a lot followers have been going to take pleasure in it as soon as it drops.
“The album’s spectacular. We couldn’t be extra proud. It’s stunning. It’s crushing. It’s catchy — hits, punishing hits. It’s spectacular. There’s some stuff that’s so totally different for us, but it surely’s 100% Exodus. You’ll go, ‘Holy shit.’”
