Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Dr. Music, Jeff Scott Soto (Sons Of Apollo, etc.) offered an update on the new album from his Ellefson-Soto project with David Ellefson (ex-Megadeth, etc.). According to him, the effort is already “in the can” with a late May release planned.

Soto said the following:

“The record’s in the can.

The way Erik Martensson, he’s the ringleader, the overseer [of Soto’s W.E.T. project], David is that with ELLEFSON-SOTO. He pulls the songs together, he gets the timing together, he gets the label side, all the industry-side stuff together. I just have to relax and sit back while I’m doing all the million of other things that I’m doing, and I come in and then I dive in and I put my input.

I love working with David and Andy [Martongelli], who’s our guitar player and also co-writer in the band. And I love the fact that they allow me to be me.

I’ve proven myself as an artist, producer, writer, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but there are still times where I’ll do something and they’ll go, ‘Hmm, [it’s] not really what I thought you were gonna do. Can you try more of this? Try more of that?’ I don’t mind that at all, because whatever is good for the song, the best thing for the song, of course. But when it comes to ELLEFSON-SOTO, I’m really, really headstrong on the ideas I come up with, and when I send it to David, [I’m] like, ‘Oh, God, I hope he doesn’t say, ‘Oh, I don’t know, man.” And every time, him and Andy say, ‘Home run. You knocked that one out of the park. That’s awesome.’ And that’s what motivates me to wanna do more and to give my all into that, even that situation, because I know if I’m making them happy with what I’m turning in, I know in the end, it’s gonna be a cohesive sound and project.”

He continued:

“It’s weird because the first album, when we did it, it wasn’t supposed to be an album. I was doing songs with David and Andy. We were just writing songs and recording songs during the pandemic. And it turned into, ‘Hey, we’re on to something here. We can’t give these songs to someone else or just use ’em as catalog music. We have something here.’ And that’s what made us put that out as an album. This time around, we actually went in to record and write an album. We didn’t say, ‘Let’s just write songs and see where it goes.’ We actually went in and said, ‘This is the sound. This is what we created on the first album. Now let’s expand on it.’

It’s really, really good. I don’t listen to my own stuff that often unless I have to learn songs for a tour or a show, but I actually find myself listening to this record just to listen to it.”

He also added the following about release plans:

“We’re getting together next month to do photo sessions and videos and stuff like that. So I believe it’s late May. I’m not exactly sure of the exact timing.”

[via Blabbermouth]