In a brand new interview with Joshua Toomey of the “Discuss Toomey” podcast, Wednesday 13 spoke about his upcoming tenth solo album, which is due in early 2025 through Napalm Data. The 48-year-old singer, who has been on the street celebrating his former band, the revered glam punk icons MURDERDOLLS, said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We completed [the new album] up this summer time. However I did not instantly begin doing images and all that stuff. We simply completed the recording. We simply form of took our time with it. I needed to hearken to it and ensure I preferred all the things and did not wanna go add in something again to it. However the way in which all of it got here collectively was it went actually easy.”
He continued: “We toured earlier within the 12 months with CRADLE OF FILTH, and I got here house and I knew I needed to begin writing. And I mainly took two months of simply writing on my own every single day. After which I introduced my drummer over to the home. He introduced an digital drum equipment over to my storage. And I went, ‘Oh, cool. All proper, this is a tune I acquired.’ And we might simply demo the songs dwell in particular person with one another. I did not use a drum machine this time, which is what I used to do. I did not wanna take care of that. And the songs got here collectively fairly fast. And immediately it jogged my memory of the the primary couple albums. And I feel that is primarily as a result of I went again to writing the music once more. We parted methods with our longtime guitarist earlier this 12 months, so when it got here to the writing course of, I simply form of went again to what I did within the very starting, ‘trigger within the very starting there was no WEDNESDAY 13 band. It was me in my basement writing the songs, so I form of went again to doing that once more.”
Requested if all of his current excursions celebrating the music of MURDERDOLLS “translated” into the brand new materials he was writing, Wednesday 13 mentioned: “Yeah, it undoubtedly did. I feel generally you may begin listening to folks speak about bands or stuff and also you perhaps begin believing one thing that wasn’t essentially the case. So like with MURDERDOLLS, my entire life I’ve all the time performed in easy three-chord form of rock and roll bands. And other people all the time name that simple and easy and, ‘What you do is simple to do. It isn’t complicated like DREAM THEATER or one thing.’ And I suppose it form of acquired in my thoughts, ‘Oh, I suppose what we do actually is not that complicated.’ After which on this final tour we had DEVILDRIVER‘s drummer [playing with us], and DEVILDRIVER‘s simply loopy, insane drumming. After which he acquired to those drumming elements, for Joey‘s [Jordison, late SLIPKNOT drummer and MURDERDOLLS guitarist] drumming elements, and he is, like, ‘This shit is basically onerous. This shit is basically onerous to do. It is easy, nevertheless it’s not easy.’ So I noticed form of what MURDERDOLLS did was a particular factor. It did not must be complicated or something. And I feel during the last couple of years, my information form of went in a extra metallic path. And I used to be perhaps attempting to do some — simply experimental as a result of I might by no means completed that previously. However reflecting on this MURDERDOLLS stuff within the final 12 months or so, I’ve realized that is actually what I concentrate on. That is the pure factor to me. And I simply went again to that. So it undoubtedly helped form the brand new music. And it simply made me understand what I did was — once more, it did not change the world, it wasn’t one thing model new, nevertheless it undoubtedly had a method to it. And I do not assume that is been actually replicated. I do not see it rather a lot in bands now. And we had been simply doing what our influences had been. We had been simply imitating MÖTLEY CRÜE and TWISTED SISTER and W.A.S.P. and sprinkling in all of our influences. And I simply do not see that or hear that in lots of newer music.”
Final month, Wednesday 13 introduced the spring 2025 “There’s No Such Issues As Monsters” North American headline tour. The trek will kick off Friday, March 14 in Las Vegas, Nevada and can hang-out a slew of main cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, together with Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, New York Metropolis and Toronto, earlier than wrapping up in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Saturday, Could 3. Help will come from STITCHED UP HEART, DEAD RABBITS and I YA TOYAH.
Wednesday 13‘s newest album, “Horrifier”, got here out in October 2022 through Napalm Data.
In an October 2023 interview with George Dionne of KNAC.COM, Wednesday 13 mentioned that his subsequent album would come with tune known as “I Have This Knife” impressed by his and his late MURDERDOLLS bandmate Joey Jordison‘s love of the basic horror film “Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath”.
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