Metal Anarchy

During an interview with 97.7 QLZ, Life Of Agony guitarist Joseph Zampella revealed that the band “have a lot of plans for 2025.” Among them are an “Ugly” 30th anniversary tour.

Zampella said the following when asked about a new album:

“Well, this song [‘The Crow (In Memory Of B.L.)’] I feel like gave us a little bit of a boost, which is great. We’re a band that we really feel out when that writing magic is happening. We have a lot of plans for 2025, so we’ll be together a lot. So I’m sure we’ll be talking about some new music or sharing some new music with each other. It happens all the time.

When it comes to a full record, for us it’s the timing of our lives that really plays a huge role in that. It’s just timing, and we have a lot of plans and some big tours being announced soon that we’re gonna be doing in 2025. One I could talk about is we’re gonna be doing the ‘Ugly’ album in its entirety. We’re gonna do an ‘Ugly’ 30th-anniversary tour. We did [an anniversary tour for] ‘River Runs Red’ last year, in 2023. ‘Ugly’ is another fan-favorite record; it was our second record. And we’ve been asked a whole bunch of times by fans and by industry people if we’re gonna do a 30-year tour for that album, because the ‘River Runs Red’ tour was so successful. And it looks like we’re gonna do it. So there’s some nice, big plans happening in 2025, so we’ll get to spend a lot of time together, which is great. And we also are doing this really cool co-headlining tour that I can’t talk about yet. I’m not allowed. And the band is so cool. It’s gonna be announced soon, I believe, because the artwork’s even being created right now. I saw a couple of drafts going back and forth the other day Alan [Robert], by the way, our bass player is an amazing artist and he does a lot of the art for the band. So he’s wrapping up a couple of drafts for that tour right now, and it’s gonna be a special tour. That’s happening in Europe, and I’m guessing, with the success of it in Europe, that we’ll end up doing some shows also in America with this co-headlining, this pair, this matchup that we got going on. So it’s exciting. I wish I could talk about it, but I’m not allowed. So, yeah, I gotta button it up. I gotta zip it up. [Laughs]”

[via Blabbermouth]