Throughout a question-and-answer session aboard this 12 months’s Rock Legends Cruise in February 2025, STYX singer Lawrence Gowan spoke concerning the band’s upcoming album, “Circling From Above”, which is tentatively due this spring. Relating to the inspiration for the follow-up to “Crash Of The Crown” , which got here out in 2021, Gowan stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Effectively, fairly actually, since [STYX producer and multi-instrumentalist] Will [Evankovich] joined the band — Will was the producer at first and a co-writer, and that basically impressed us to begin making new music once more. Additionally, the boring half is that the music business itself, it form of righted itself in plenty of methods. There was a resurgence in curiosity in vinyl data, and the concept of an album being a murals as an alternative of, as all of us are on our telephones, flipping via issues each ten seconds, as an alternative you could have that have of listening to a bit of music that takes about forty minutes and you start to get this sort of what some folks discuss with as a theater of the thoughts going. And that is actually what impressed us to try this. So, as a author, Will can also be very, very, extraordinarily sturdy. And he was capable of form of concentrate on what we must always do on new data. So [2017’s] ‘The Mission’ was very profitable. ‘Crash Of The Crown’, as we point out in each present so modestly, that it went to Quantity One within the Billboard Rock Album chart. That is a giant mark for us, the truth that that occurred, and it gave us the arrogance to maintain making data. It is a part of the lifeblood of what retains the band alive. Anyway, I believe you are gonna get pleasure from it — nicely, I do know you are gonna get pleasure from this new report. We expect it is very sturdy.”
Requested when followers can count on the brand new STYX album, Gowan stated: “Finish of Might.”
Final December, STYX guitarist/vocalist Tommy Shaw informed Final Basic Rock concerning the band’s upcoming LP: “I assume we simply stumbled upon a approach of doing it. Simply writing, you do not have to put in writing the entire thing at one time. Like Will and I, we have been writing songs collectively for you recognize for 10, 15 years. And once we get one which we like, Will’s much more organized than I’m, however he’ll put it on a tough drive. And so we had amassed an entire bunch of songs. Abruptly, we obtained sizzling writing new stuff. After which we went again and checked out another issues and stated this stuff all all of it goes collectively. Now we’re engaged on [the album] and ending it. And it is thrilling.”
Shaw described the upcoming STYX launch as “a fantastic rock album” and added that “real-life experiences” had been the lyrical inspiration for most of the new tracks.
“You are writing about your experiences in your life and issues that you just love and luxuriate in, or issues that had been onerous to undergo and that type of factor,” he stated. “So that you’re simply actually simply writing a e book in little sections like that. And we have a fairly good one going right here.”
The legendary rockers wrote “Crash Of The Crown” pre-pandemic and recorded it throughout the making an attempt occasions of the coronavirus disaster.
Forbes described “Crash Of The Crown” as one through which “its sweeping, dramatic and anthemic sound instantly recollects the band’s basic works of the Seventies and early Eighties.” It was the follow-up to “The Mission”, STYX‘s first LP in 14 years, which critics additionally had known as “a masterpiece”.
STYX — James “JY” Younger (lead vocals, guitars),Tommy Shaw (lead vocals, guitars),Chuck Panozzo (bass, vocals),Todd Sucherman (drums, percussion),Lawrence Gowan (lead vocals, keyboards),Will Evankovich (mandolin, guitars),Terry Gowan (bass, guitar, vocals) — and Kevin Cronin, the enduring voice and author behind REO SPEEDWAGON‘s biggest hits, just lately wrapped up vastly profitable sold-out residencies at The Venetian Theatre. For the primary time of their 50-plus-year profession in Las Vegas, Nevada, STYX carried out 1977’s “The Grand Phantasm” in its entirety, whereas REO SPEEDWAGON carried out 1980’s “Hello Infidelity” in its entirety.
Because of the overwhelming response from each residencies, STYX and the KEVIN CRONIN BAND introduced final month that they are bringing these particular album reveals for the primary time, plus their hits, to the amphitheaters and arenas later this summer season as a part of their “Brotherhood Of Rock” tour.
The “Brotherhood Of Rock” tour, together with particular visitor Don Felder (a former lead guitarist of THE EAGLES),will kick off Might 28 in Greenville, South Carolina on the Bon Secours Wellness Enviornment.
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