San Francisco Bay Space thrash metallic veterans EXODUS are making ready to enter the studio to start recording the follow-up to their 2021 album “Persona Non Grata”.
Earlier in the present day, EXODUS shared a photograph of guitarist Gary Holt and drummer Tom Looking within the studio and included the next message: “Jam camp has BEGUN!! Tom and Gary are busy crushing riffs to organize for the subsequent file! Shit is off the charts sick!”
Final October, Looking 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 acquired the nucleus for a bunch of songs, principally flip flopped among the beats on some songs. That occurs typically. And so I’ve loads of materials to work with. After this [fall 2024] tour, we’re gonna woodshed. We’ll in all probability get collectively in my studio right here; I am in Northern California. Yeah, we’re in all probability 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 subsequent EXODUS LP, Tom stated: “I wrote the lyrics to 1 [track], ‘The Years Of Demise And Dying’, on the final file, and it turned out to be a very nice tune. So, I believe between that and the journey with the most cancers and stuff, it awoke one thing in me. So I’ve acquired notepads with scribbles, like an entire bunch of stuff. I must formulate them into songs [laughs], however I acquired loads 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.”
Concerning 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 very good previous 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 every little thing. And we have got a bunch of covers within the bag too that we recorded within the final periods for ‘Persona Non Grata’, and we’ll in all probability 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 acquired 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 had been gonna do it this summer time, however we felt we had been speeding it. And the final time was so nicely obtained and a landmark album for us, we won’t shortchange ourselves and hurry into it. And [we have a] model new file label with Napalm Information and we wished to ensure the album’s pretty much as good because it presumably will 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: “Effectively, I am writing the brand new file proper now. We had been going to go within the studio in every week, however we would have liked 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 12 months. 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 as a result of pandemic, and the outcomes are obvious within the file, and to comply with ‘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 rather well. Truly, I’ve acquired 10 songs I am engaged on. Lee‘s acquired some stuff, and we’ll take it from there.”
Requested if it appears to be like like the subsequent EXODUS album will likely be launched in 2025, Gary replied: “Oh, yeah, for positive. Will probably be subsequent 12 months. It is simply gonna be later subsequent 12 months 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 course of the band’s new materials: “I have not heard something that they are writing. It normally begins with Tom and Gary. So, it’s going to be music after which drums. After which after they have type of stuff pasted collectively, then I will hear bits and items of it. It type of rolls like that, however inside three or 4 weeks’ time, what feels like simply riffs put collectively truly flip into full songs, with lyrics and every little thing. ‘Persona Non Grata’ went that approach, for positive. And up to now we had performed it like that. So that is what’s truly occurring so far as EXODUS is anxious proper now.”
Souza went on to say that Napalm Information, with whom EXODUS signed a brand new file deal final 12 months, was anxious to begin working with the band on selling the upcoming LP.
“It has been 20 years or much more than we had 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 every little thing that [former EXODUS singer] Rob Dukes did with them was on there. After which after I got here again, [we did] ‘Blood In Blood Out’ and ‘Persona’ [with Nuclear Blast].
“[Napalm] appear very excited, and that is all the time a very good factor,” he continued. “We had such an awesome relationship with Nuclear Blast and so they had been actually good to us. I believe typically change is sweet and a breath of contemporary air comes. And I believe that we had been due for that. So, it is labored out good. We have, clearly, Napalm, their deal for us was actually, actually good and it is a three-album deal, so there’s no less than three extra EXODUS information on the books there. So we simply have primary that may begin this 12 months 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 because the 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.
Photograph credit score: Tayva Martinez
Jam camp has BEGUN!! Tom and Gary are busy crushing riffs to organize for the subsequent file! Shit is off the charts sick!
Posted by Exodus on Tuesday, January 7, 2025
