Exodus - To Begin Recording Next Album In May
In a new video uploaded to his Zetro's Toxic Vault YouTube channel, Exodus frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza has confirmed that the band will begin recording their new album around mid-May. The latest update on the follow-up to 2021's Persona Non Grata, due later this year or in 2025, comes more than one week after Exodus guitarist Gary Holt was reuniting with Slayer for a few shows.
Zetro said: "We're writing new Exodus right now and I think we were originally supposed to be in the studio… We were gonna be in March 1st, but we can't just rush this stuff. It has to happen. So I think it's more like in the mid-May that it's going to happen now. We're going down and doing five shows in South America. We're doing Summer Breeze [festival] in Brazil, and there's some stuff in Chile and in Ecuador and in — a couple more things in Brazil that we're doing that will be kinda like right before we go in to do that. And then I believe Europe is the last week of July — around the 26th or the 27th of July to August 18th — so I don't think it will be much stuff in there that's going to collude that. But that's where we are at right now with Exodus anyway."
Regarding the new record's musical direction, he commented: "I haven't heard anything that they're writing. It usually starts with Tom [Hunting, drums] and Gary [Holt, guitar]. So, it'll be music and then drums. And then when they have kind of stuff pasted together, then I'll hear bits and pieces of it. It kind of rolls like that, but within three or four weeks' time, what sounds like just riffs put together actually turn into full songs, with lyrics and everything. Persona Non Grata went that way, for sure. And in the past we had done it like that. So that's what's actually happening as far as Exodus is concerned right now."
Zetro then talked about the band's new home Napalm Records, who signed Exodus last June: "It's been 20 years or even more than we were on Nuclear Blast. I mean, the first record on Nuclear Blast was Tempo Of The Damned, and so [it was] in 2003, 2002, I think, when we actually signed to them. And then everything that [former Exodus singer] Rob Dukes did with them was on there. And then when I came back, [we did] Blood In Blood Out and Persona [with Nuclear Blast]. [Napalm] seem very excited, and that's always a good thing. We had such a great relationship with Nuclear Blast and they were really good to us. I think sometimes change is good and a breath of fresh air comes. And I think that we were due for that. So, it's worked out good. We've got, obviously, Napalm, their deal for us was really, really good and it's a three-album deal, so there's at least three more Exodus records on the books there. So we just have number one that will start this year at some point."
Zetro said: "We're writing new Exodus right now and I think we were originally supposed to be in the studio… We were gonna be in March 1st, but we can't just rush this stuff. It has to happen. So I think it's more like in the mid-May that it's going to happen now. We're going down and doing five shows in South America. We're doing Summer Breeze [festival] in Brazil, and there's some stuff in Chile and in Ecuador and in — a couple more things in Brazil that we're doing that will be kinda like right before we go in to do that. And then I believe Europe is the last week of July — around the 26th or the 27th of July to August 18th — so I don't think it will be much stuff in there that's going to collude that. But that's where we are at right now with Exodus anyway."
Regarding the new record's musical direction, he commented: "I haven't heard anything that they're writing. It usually starts with Tom [Hunting, drums] and Gary [Holt, guitar]. So, it'll be music and then drums. And then when they have kind of stuff pasted together, then I'll hear bits and pieces of it. It kind of rolls like that, but within three or four weeks' time, what sounds like just riffs put together actually turn into full songs, with lyrics and everything. Persona Non Grata went that way, for sure. And in the past we had done it like that. So that's what's actually happening as far as Exodus is concerned right now."
Zetro then talked about the band's new home Napalm Records, who signed Exodus last June: "It's been 20 years or even more than we were on Nuclear Blast. I mean, the first record on Nuclear Blast was Tempo Of The Damned, and so [it was] in 2003, 2002, I think, when we actually signed to them. And then everything that [former Exodus singer] Rob Dukes did with them was on there. And then when I came back, [we did] Blood In Blood Out and Persona [with Nuclear Blast]. [Napalm] seem very excited, and that's always a good thing. We had such a great relationship with Nuclear Blast and they were really good to us. I think sometimes change is good and a breath of fresh air comes. And I think that we were due for that. So, it's worked out good. We've got, obviously, Napalm, their deal for us was really, really good and it's a three-album deal, so there's at least three more Exodus records on the books there. So we just have number one that will start this year at some point."
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