Metal Anarchy

It looks like SOiL are almost finished with their next release. According to bassist Tim King, “new music is almost ready to go.”

King told Super Cool Radio the following:

“We did a U.K. and European tour in the end of 2024, and we pretty much took all of 2025 to write new music. We went in the studio, recorded new music. All that’s almost done. We’re going to go back and finish up a couple of songs. But new music is almost ready to go. We’re talking probably a couple months, and we’re gonna be setting up a release schedule for that.

We didn’t tour at all in 2025, so we’re making up for it here in 2026. [We’re] going out with our buddies in NONPOINT for a small little USA run. There’s a couple of sprinkled headline dates that are in there. And then we’re going to be hitting a lot of the great festivals this year, like Sonic Temple, Louder Than Life. We’re going back to the U.K. We’re actually in the works of setting up some more USA dates as we speak, and we’re gonna give the announcement for the new material, the release date for that.”

He also discussed the creative process:

“We definitely changed it up. Our original way that we always wrote, just because of how long we’ve been around, is sweating it out in the rehearsal space. Somebody would come with a riff or an idea, and we’d start building around it and see if we had something. We had the dry eraseboard up and we’d start cataloging songs and record ’em on the boombox. And as we got around, into Pro Tools and stuff like that with a little setup. But this time around we did everything by Zoom. ‘Cause me and Adam [Zadel, SOIL guitarist] still live in Chicago where the band was originally based, but everybody else is scattered. So we did a lot of Zoom writing, which was very new for us. We’d never done that before. We did a lot of trading back and forth with music and riffs and ideas and things like that. So it was definitely a new experience for us. And then, when we got in the studio is where everything, all the pegs started fitting into the proper holes. It’s, like, ‘Okay, we’re all together. We all know where we’re at.’ And me and Adam have very specific tones, so I came with my bass that I’ve recorded on every album except for our very first album, ‘Throttle Junkies’. I came in with that, came in with my effects and stuff like that, that I use on every record. It’s my SOIL sound. I basically didn’t give any leeway. I said, ‘I want this, I want that, I want this and that,’ and plugged it all in, did it, all that. And the producer’s, like, ‘Yep. I see what you mean about the SOIL sound. It’s right there. We’re not changing anything.’ And Adam uses his Kemper, which is a programmable amp. He just walked in with that, which looks like a deranged lunchbox, and plugged that into the control board, and we were good to go on tones. We definitely have our SOIL sound, so to speak, which we kind of just came in like a bowl in a china shop and said, ‘Here’s what our sound is, here’s what we’re using,’ plugged it in, and it worked again.”

[via Blabbermouth]