Talking on the Garza Podcast, Kataklysm frontman Maurizio Iacono revealed that the Canadian demise steel establishment will start work on their subsequent album this summer season (this episode was filmed in 2025), marking a deliberate return to the band’s roots after years of distant collaboration.
Based on Iacono (as transcribed by Metallic Injection), the band will spend all the summer season writing and recording the brand new album collectively at a newly constructed studio in Orlando, Florida — a studio he constructed particularly with this mission in thoughts. “The subsequent plan we’ve got for Kataklysm is that subsequent summer season we’ll file [a new album],” he defined. “I constructed a studio in Orlando that we’ll use for the primary time.”
The setup sounds nearer to a retreat than a conventional studio session. Constructed on a one-acre property, the house features a cabin-style dwelling and a customized shed-house studio within the again, designed to permit the band to reside and work collectively all through the writing course of. “What’s cool about it’s that I constructed it on one acre of land,” Iacono mentioned. “There is a cabin home, like a cabin dwelling, and within the again I constructed a shed-house–fashion studio. It is very nice.”
Lately, Kataklysm — like many long-running steel bands — have relied on distant collaboration, with members dwelling in several elements of the world and exchanging concepts digitally. “Proper now everybody’s dwelling in other places, and we have been placing concepts collectively remotely — sending riffs, drum programming, all that,” Iacono mentioned.
For Iacono, the shift is about reconnecting with the spirit that fueled Kataklysm‘s earlier releases, when the band lower their tooth in rehearsal rooms slightly than file-sharing platforms.
Past the music itself, Iacono emphasised the significance of environment and psychological house in shaping the following Kataklysm file. The Florida setting is supposed to encourage creativity with out stress — a luxurious the band can lastly afford after years on the street. “It’s going to be in an atmosphere the place we are able to have a hearth at night time, smoke cigars… constructive, have time, strive shit, and see the way it goes,” he mentioned. “We have now the posh to do it, so I used to be like, let’s try this. All people’s on board.”
Whereas particulars in regards to the album’s sound stay underneath wraps, Iacono confirmed that sturdy concepts are already in place — and that followers could get an inside have a look at the method. “I believe we’ll doc it,” he mentioned. “So… I believe we’re onto one thing cool, and we’ll have file. We have already got good concepts proper now.”
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