“Reckless” Rexx Ruger of Pod Scum not too long ago requested Exhorder’s vocalist Kyle Thomas (who additionally fronts Bother) if a follow-up to their fourth full-length, Defectum Omnium (March 2024, Nuclear Blast Data), was on the horizon. Thomas supplied a standing replace that implies the gears are already turning, even when nobody’s racing the clock.
“In the intervening time, I’m sort of in the course of recording a brand new Bother album. I gotta get again on to it and get busy with it once more. We’re planning on releasing that subsequent 12 months and performing some touring. However Exhorder is again within the mindset of, okay, in March it’ll be two years since this album was launched. Touring cycles for albums are usually a two-year run now as an alternative of a one-year run prefer it was. So we’re feeling that, okay, now it’s time,” he defined (through Blabbermouth).
“The excellent news is that we’ve fulfilled our contractual obligation to our label. However we’ve already talked with them about, ‘Effectively, if y’all wanna work once more, let’s speak.’ So I’ve no concern about whether or not or not we’re gonna have a report deal. It’s only a matter of the way it’s gonna occur and when,” Thomas added.
“We now have simply actually gotten began on the content material for that subsequent album. I’ve obtained most likely fewer cohesive concepts than [bassist] Jason [VieBrooks] does. Jason’s obtained most likely 4 to 6 constructions and skeletons of songs that may ultimately be songs, and he’s recorded 4 of these with [drummer] Sasha [Horn], simply to sort of see what’s gonna work and what’s not — simply pre-production, regular pre-production. My stuff’s much more jumbled. I’ve obtained so many movies of riffs — a whole lot of good things, and I do know a whole lot of it’s most likely not gonna make it to the album, however I haven’t had the time actually to concentrate on it that Jason has, and I’m okay with it as a result of Jason, musically, has been the one carrying the load on his shoulders, so far as arising with songs for final couple of albums,” Kyle expanded.
“So I’m blissful that he’s good at that and enjoys doing it as a result of it takes a whole lot of duty and burden off of me if I’m not in a position to get to it quickly sufficient. So it doesn’t matter to me if this time I solely have two songs as an alternative of 4 that made it to the album. And now that we’ve obtained [former Cannibal Corpse guitarist] Pat [O’Brien] [in contributing to the songwriting], say Pat’s obtained two of ’em. Let’s say Pat’s obtained two or three of ’em, I obtained two or three of ’em, and Jason’s obtained 4 or 5 of ’em, already we’ve obtained extra songs than we want.”
Requested whether or not followers ought to circle 2026 or 2027 for brand spanking new Exhorder music, Kyle didn’t hedge: “I’m gonna say 2027. We don’t wanna ever be in a rush.”
If that sounds measured, it tracks with the place Exhorder are coming from. Defectum Omnium featured 12 tracks wrapped in ominous Travis Smith paintings (credit embrace Katatonia, Opeth) and adopted the band’s broadly praised 2019 comeback, Mourn The Southern Skies. The album periods ran by way of Fats Monitor Studio in Cincinnati with engineer Rob Nadler and marked the primary Exhorder studio look for Pat O’Brien, who stepped onstage with the group at Maryland Deathfest in 2022.
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