I can’t think about being in a touring metallic band into your 60s. Shit’s gotta be onerous sufficient for a 20-something, however to exit and play at such a excessive degree 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 At 61 years outdated, Exodus guitarist Gary Holt‘s absolutely conscious of that and he says the band’s taken measures so that they’ll need to work rather less sooner or later.
Throughout a latest 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 thought, he stated, was to work more durable 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 p.c recorded, ’trigger we did 18 songs. And so when it’s time for the subsequent 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 someday after we stopped recording, we had been on tour. So since March 2nd, I’ve been dwelling for 2 and a half weeks.”
We’ve recognized for some time that the band was engaged on two albums on the identical time. Nonetheless, pre-loading a second album forward of time is a fairly good transfer, actually. While you’re in enterprise for your self, which is successfully what you might be 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 relax time for you and yours seems like a smart transfer made by a band that’s been round for 4 many years.
At this level, we don’t know a lot about both of the brand new Exodus albums. In accordance with Holt, the primary one can be out “early subsequent 12 months”, 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 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 stunning. It’s crushing. It’s catchy — hits, punishing hits. It’s spectacular. There’s some stuff that’s so totally different for us, nevertheless it’s one hundred pc Exodus. You’ll go, ‘Holy shit.’”
