Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Loud TV, Black Stone Cherry drummer John Fred Young offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the effort will likely surface “early next year.”

Young said the following:

“We started working on the new record this summer. And we’ve got about… I think there’s about eight songs right now that we had done, and we’re gonna go back in in December and finish up the rest. So [it’s] a really, really cool situation.

We’ve got our own theater back in Glasgow, Kentucky, where Ben [Wells] lives. We do our home shows there; we do it every two years at Christmas. So we recorded the drums in this big, beautiful theater. And they just sound incredible; even with me playing, they sound incredible. And we’re going to my house to do vocals and guitars. So, [it’s] really cool, man. I think people will really love the songs and the playing.

We recorded ‘The Human Condition’ in 2020, and when we were doing that, everything with COVID, it was really starting to rise up. And we got done with that record two days before our state locked us down. So we were lucky to get that done. It’s wild because we’re just now playing that record here in Paris and throughout Europe. But I think probably next year, early next year, we’ll have a new record out.”

He also added the following about the effort’s musical direction:

“The first seven or eight [songs] we had done are really… The lyrics on them are very heartfelt and great. The music is really heavy, but also there’s the BLACK STONE CHERRY ballad or two, so… I can’t give away too much [laughs], ’cause I don’t even know what the other ones sound like yet, ’cause we haven’t really finished those.”

[via Blabbermouth]