Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on the HardLore podcast, Madball frontman Freddy Cricien offered an update on the band’s upcoming album “Not Your Kingdom.” According to him, the effort will be released in May.

Cricien said the following:

“It’s called ‘Not Your Kingdom’. And I predict that you’re gonna love the cover. It’s a very throwback vibe. [It has] a nostalgic feel to it, but it’s also current. It’s very in line with like the lyrical content and the message. And it’s by far the most diverse MADBALL album, even more so than ‘For The Cause’, which I thought ‘For The Cause’, we did a lot of different stuff, which we were happy to do, because you can’t just keep doing the same album over and over.

Obviously, you wanna hear our sound, but I like that we were venturing out and doing different stuff on that one. And this one is — yeah, there’s some songs that are reminiscent of ‘Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop’… It’s very eclectic in the best way, I think. It’s gonna be for the people to judge. But I’m super proud of it. And writing with these guys was very natural. It wasn’t forced. It wasn’t, like, ‘Oh.’ We all were hungry. It’s been 2018 since we put out an album.”

He also added the following about release plans:

“May. It kept getting pushed back because of just nonsense. The album was done, but then we had to get it remixed, ’cause we didn’t like the first mix. And then artwork got held up. And then you gotta wait for it to go into the Nuclear Blast system, which is always, like, ‘Why can’t you just drop this tomorrow?’ That’s not how it works. So now it’s finally in the system, and it’s gonna come out in May. I think people are gonna dig it. I hope so.”

[via Blabbermouth]