Exodus-vokalisti Steve Souza: uusi albumi saattaa ilmestyä 2017 lopussa
The Age Of Metal haastatteli hiljattain yhdysvaltalaisen thrash metal -veteraani Exoduksen vokalisti Steve ”Zetro” Souzaa liittyen mm. yhtyeen seuraavaan albumiin. Hänen mukaansa on mahdollista, että uusi albumi julkaistaan ensi vuoden aikana:
”I hate to speak for everybody, because one of our members [guitarist Gary Holt] plays in SLAYER, which is very important to us and to him as well. And, actually, Gary is the main songwriter and has always been in EXODUS. And so we’ll have to, obviously, look at his schedule, but just having, actually, conversations with him since we’ve been home [off the road] and conversations with Tom [Hunting, EXODUS drummer], I mean, we know we need to keep new music going. And 2017 would be… Say it was towards the end of 2017… That would be three years since my return [to the band] and three years since [the last EXODUS album] ’Blood In, Blood Out’ came out. So I think that’s fair to say you should be able to put a record out in that amount of time. And we’ve always been able to write an album in an… like, come home and concentrate on it, and within five or six months, we have it written and done — even less [time] than that. We know what we’re doing. We know EXODUS. We’ve been doing this for so many years. It’s just like getting on a bicycle and riding it.”
Hän kehui yhtyeen perustanutta kitaristi Gary Holtia, joka kirjoitti 2014 julkaistun ”Blood In, Blood Out” -levyn lähes kokonaan yksin:
”Everybody in metal will tell you he’s the real deal.”
”He’s the true thrash… He does everything: he writes [music], he plays lead, he writes great lyrics. He’s just the all-around… Anybody… Scott Ian [ANTHRAX]… James Hetfield [METALLICA] will tell you Gary Holt is the all-around package. He’s the utility guy; he can play infield, outfield, hit left, hit right, pitch, catch… He can do it all, which is great, and we’re very fortunate to have that.”
Souza kertoo myös odottavansa innolla uuden materiaalin kirjoittamiseen osallistumista. Mies ei juuri ehtinyt osallistua uusimman levyn kirjoittamiseen, sillä albumi oli jo lähes valmis hänen palattuaan yhtyeen riveihin. Hän kommentoi aihetta seuraavasti:
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”I’ve always been a lyrical writer — always — but on ’Blood In, Blood Out’, I really didn’t come in until the end.”
”And I wrote… Actually, Lee [Altus, guitar], Jack [Gibson, bass] and myself, we were in the studio one day when I was actually doing my vocal tracks, and we all wrote ’Body Harvest’, the lyrics, together. And on the past EXODUS records — I did five other studio records with EXODUS — I always wrote lyrics… always. Some records, like ’Fabulous Disaster’ [1989], ’Impact Is Imminent’ [1990] and ’Force Of Habit’ [1992], I probably wrote 60/40 of the lyrical [content]. But I’ve always been a lyrical writer. In my band that I was doing with my son, HATRIOT, I wrote all the lyrics. I did that side project with Chuck Billy [TESTAMENT], DUBLIN DEATH PATROL, and I pretty much wrote all the lyrics for that as well. It’s something I definitely am known for and definitely I do, and I’m sure having Gary and I collaborate on this next record is gonna really exciting for us, for the fans, for everyone. ’Cause it has been since [2004’s] ’Tempo Of The Damned’ where we knew we were writing a record together, and everybody loves ’Tempo Of The Damned’, so we’ll see what happens. I’m sure it’s gonna be epic.”
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