Metal Anarchy

During a recent appearance on Eluveitie’s “Corona Talk,” Heidi Shepherd confirmed that Butcher Babies’ new album is finished. The band, who are currently unsigned after parting ways with Century Media, were planning to release a new single from the effort in the near future, but their plans were derailed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Shepherd said the following:

“We have a new album ready, and we were actually supposed to release a single. We are waiting for the right timing. Because everything was supposed to happen this coming week, and we kind of stopped everything once we knew that the tour was being postponed. They’re gonna service these songs to radio, and it’s kind of hard to service songs to radio if we are not on tour.”

She went on to say that the group are “in a really weird spot” since they left Century Media:

“We were gonna do a lot of this stuff kind of independently for a minute in hopes of bartering a better deal somewhere. And it doesn’t really serve us right to release something and then who knows if labels are even gonna be looking to sign at that time.

The point of releasing just the single on its own was to kind of be able to talk about our deal with the right label to release the whole album on. So, we’ll see. We have a lot of discussion to be had with our management team about it.”

She also added:

“It was a hard decision to part ways with Century Media. Here in the U.S., the label doesn’t exactly exist much here anymore. And so it was a really difficult decision. We were with them for our entire career; we’ve been a band for 10 years. It just wasn’t working here in the States. But we do love our Century Media family.

We’ll see what happens. I don’t know. I’m sad and I feel a little bit discouraged, but at the same time, I know that things will turn out. And we’re all in the same boat [due to the coronavirus crisis]. [Laughs] That’s one thing I have to keep telling myself — we’re all in this together; we’re all in the same boat.”

[via Blabbermouth]