San Francisco Bay Space thrash metallic veterans EXODUS are getting ready to enter the studio to start recording the follow-up to their 2021 album “Persona Non Grata”.
Earlier right this moment, EXODUS shared a photograph of guitarist Gary Holt and drummer Tom Searching within the studio and included the next message: “Jam camp has BEGUN!! Tom and Gary are busy crushing riffs to organize for the following file! Shit is off the charts sick!”
Final October, Searching advised The Steel Voice about EXODUS‘s subsequent LP: “The music is gonna come collectively actually quick and it is actually superior. We labored final March, April and just a little bit in Could and bought the nucleus for a bunch of songs, mainly flip flopped among the beats on some songs. That occurs generally. And so I’ve lots of materials to work with. After this [fall 2024] tour, we’re gonna woodshed. We’ll most likely get collectively in my studio right here; I am in Northern California. Yeah, we’re most likely gonna work by means of the tip of December after which into January. So we’ll have two months. And we have already got the nucleus of a bunch of nice songs.”
Requested if he’s going to be contributing musically and lyrically to the following EXODUS LP, Tom stated: “I wrote the lyrics to 1 [track], ‘The Years Of Dying And Dying’, on the final file, and it turned out to be a extremely nice music. So, I believe between that and the journey with the most cancers and stuff, it awoke one thing in me. So I’ve bought notepads with scribbles, like a complete bunch of stuff. I have to formulate them into songs [laughs], however I bought lots of phrases and stuff… I am gonna attempt to write some [of the lyrics]. Yeah, it is actually enjoyable. And I actually get pleasure from like lyric writing. It is nice.”
Relating to the general sound of the brand new EXODUS materials and whether or not a few of it’s going to “veer off into different instructions”, Tom stated: “I actually could not let you know. I imply, there may very well be some experimental stuff, and all of it occurs organically and type of within the second. I believed ‘Blood In, Blood Out’ was type of like a great outdated thrash album. ‘Persona Non Grata’ was just a little extra —yeah, just a little extra meaty, just a little extra darkish, goes to some darkish locations. All of the music we made with [singer Rob] Dukes was just a little extra progressive and went to darkish locations, and I like that stuff too. So I believe there will be just a little little bit of all the pieces. And we have a bunch of covers within the bag too that we recorded within the final periods for ‘Persona Non Grata’, and we’ll most likely do a few of these too — simply obscure B-side punk stuff. Enjoyable stuff.”
Earlier in October, Holt advised SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” about EXODUS‘s subsequent album: “I’ve bought a dozen [songs] within the works proper now, and Lee [Altus, EXODUS guitarist] has some stuff. Our plan is to hit the studio in February. We have been gonna do it this summer time, however we felt we have been speeding it. And the final time was so nicely obtained and a landmark album for us, we will not shortchange ourselves and hurry into it. And [we have a] model new file label with Napalm Information and we wished to verify the album’s pretty much as good because it presumably might be. So, February and March we’ll be within the studio after which again at it once more after that. No relaxation for the depraved, for positive.”
Holt beforehand mentioned EXODUS‘s plans to hit the studio in August in an interview with Full Steel Jackie‘s nationally syndicated radio present. He stated on the time: “Nicely, I am writing the brand new file proper now. We have been going to go within the studio in per week, however we wanted extra time. We’re not prepared. And if we rushed it, that’d be an enormous mistake. Sadly, as a result of touring commitments, our subsequent hole to get in and do that correct, it is, like, the start of subsequent yr. So, we’re pushing again, however it’s gonna be value it ‘trigger the songs are simply coming alongside very nicely. I am tremendous happy. Stuff’s heavy.”
He continued: “The final album we had on a regular basis on the earth because of the pandemic, and the outcomes are obvious within the file, and to observe ‘Persona Non Grata’ with a rushed launch could be the dumbest factor we may presumably do. Nevertheless it’s coming alongside — it is coming alongside very well. Truly, I’ve bought 10 songs I am engaged on. Lee‘s bought some stuff, and we’ll take it from there.”
Requested if it appears to be like like the following EXODUS album can be launched in 2025, Gary replied: “Oh, yeah, for positive. It is going to be subsequent yr. It is simply gonna be later subsequent yr than we hoped.”
In February 2024, EXODUS frontman Steve “Zetro” Souza stated on his Zetro’s Poisonous Vault YouTube channel in regards to the musical route of the band’s new materials: “I have not heard something that they are writing. It often begins with Tom and Gary. So, it will be music after which drums. After which once they have type of stuff pasted collectively, then I am going to hear bits and items of it. It type of rolls like that, however inside three or 4 weeks’ time, what appears like simply riffs put collectively truly flip into full songs, with lyrics and all the pieces. ‘Persona Non Grata’ went that means, for positive. And previously we had performed it like that. So that is what’s truly taking place so far as EXODUS is worried proper now.”
Souza went on to say that Napalm Information, with whom EXODUS signed a brand new file deal final yr, was anxious to begin working with the band on selling the upcoming LP.
“It has been 20 years or much more than we have been on Nuclear Blast,” Zetro stated. “I imply, the primary file on Nuclear Blast was ‘Tempo Of The Damned’, and so [it was] in 2003, 2002, I believe, after we truly signed to them. After which all the pieces that [former EXODUS singer] Rob Dukes did with them was on there. After which once I got here again, [we did] ‘Blood In Blood Out’ and ‘Persona’ [with Nuclear Blast].
“[Napalm] appear very excited, and that is at all times a great factor,” he continued. “We had such a fantastic relationship with Nuclear Blast they usually have been actually good to us. I believe generally change is nice and a breath of contemporary air comes. And I believe that we have been due for that. So, it is labored out good. We have got, clearly, Napalm, their deal for us was actually, actually good and it is a three-album deal, so there’s not less than three extra EXODUS data on the books there. So we simply have primary that can begin this yr in some unspecified time in the future.”
EXODUS accomplished the “The Battle Of ’24” North American tour final fall. The trek marked the band’s first headlining run in a few years and featured assist from thrash metallers HAVOK, metallic hardcore outfit CANDY and crossover thrashers DEAD HEAT. The tour kicked off on November 2 in Tampa, Florida and thrashed throughout North America, finally concluding on December 7 in Los Angeles, California.
“Persona Non Grata” got here out in November 2021 by way of Nuclear Blast Information. The LP was recorded at a studio in Lake Almanor, California and was engineered by Steve Lagudi and EXODUS. It was produced by EXODUS and was blended by Andy Sneap.
“Persona Non Grata” was the follow-up to 2014’s “Blood In Blood Out”, which was the San Francisco Bay Space thrashers’ first launch for the reason that departure of EXODUS‘s singer of 9 years, Rob Dukes, and the return of Souza, who beforehand fronted EXODUS from 1986 to 1993 and from 2002 to 2004.
Picture credit score: Tayva Martinez
Jam camp has BEGUN!! Tom and Gary are busy crushing riffs to organize for the following file! Shit is off the charts sick!
Posted by Exodus on Tuesday, January 7, 2025
