I can’t think about being in a touring metallic band into your 60s. Shit’s gotta be laborious sufficient for a 20-something, however to exit and play at such a excessive degree as you age? That’s spectacular. At 61 years previous, 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 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 have been gonna work ourselves as laborious 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 following 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 laborious. We have been within the studio for seven weeks, and in the future after we stopped recording, we have 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 reasonably good transfer, actually. Once 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 change. Doing one thing like pre-recording a buncha songs forward of time to carve out some sit back time for you and yours feels like a clever 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 keeping with Holt, the primary one shall be out “early subsequent 12 months”, with the second coming someday down the road.
As for a way the following 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 lovely. It’s crushing. It’s catchy — hits, punishing hits. It’s spectacular. There’s some stuff that’s so completely different for us, nevertheless it’s 100% Exodus. You’ll go, ‘Holy shit.’”
