Metal Anarchy

T3RMINAL, the new band featuring bassist Brian Wheat (Tesla), guitarist Tommy Skeoch (ex-Tesla), guitarist Chris Holmes (ex-W.A.S.P.), and singer Josey Scott (ex-Saliva), have already recorded enough tracks for a full album. Scott confirmed the news during an interview with Cassius Morris.

Scott said the following about the project:

“Man, I gotta give credit to Brian Wheat from TESLA. He was definitely the author of all this.

We became friends, me and Brian became friends back in 2003, I think, when we [SALIVA] were on tour doing festivals. And we would run into TESLA at different festivals. And they just became huge fans of ours. And, of course, we’re huge TESLA fans from way back in the day, and we adored them, but we had no idea that they were fans of ours. And they used to come and stand in the wings and watch us play. It made me nervous — it made me so fricking nervous every night to look over and see the guys, to see the guys that you admired, to see the posters that you had on your wall standing in the wings of the stage watching you play. It just made me sick with nerves, just trembling. And so we became friends outside of that and sort of kept in touch over the years.

[Brian] just got ahold of me the last few years and said, ‘Hey, man, I’m thinking about putting together a little side project outside of TESLA, and it’s gonna be me and Tommy Skeoch,’ one of the original guitar players of TESLA. And I’d always been a big fan of Tommy, too. And he was, like, ‘Would you be interested in maybe singing and being the singer, maybe doing a couple of songs with me?’ And I’m, like, ‘What? Are you serious?’ I was, like, ‘Why me?’ And he goes, ‘I just have always loved you,’ and we were definitely buddies immediately, and we just clicked immediately. And he goes, ‘Because of that, I think I can stand being around you for more than six months at a time.’ Because, like Rob Zombie says, damn if somebody can play or not and if they’re a good songwriter or not. You gotta find somebody that you can stand being around for the next six months, ’cause you’re gonna be spending a lot of time together. But we had always hit it off as buddies. And he was, like, ‘Man, I love your voice. I love your songwriting. I love your lyrics. I would love for you to be a part of this if you want, if you’d like to do that.’ And I was, like, ‘Well, yeah.’ I was, like, ‘Hell yeah, dude. I’m down.’ And so he sent me some songs. He told me that Chris Holmes from W.A.S.P. was gonna be involved, and Sal, the drummer for STAIND, was gonna be involved. And I was, like, ‘Whoa, dude. That sounds buck-ass wild, dude. I’m definitely in.’ And so he sent me, I think, six songs, and I started to kind of write to those songs and demo some stuff up. Then he flew me out to his house in upstate New York, and we just started recording. And, man, like that, before you knew it, I had written nine songs. He had nine songs in all, and we have 18 songs already. We have enough songs recorded that we still gotta put the finishing touches on, but we have enough material recorded right now to release an album. And that just happened just like that. It’s been really fluid and really cool with those guys. We really connected.”

[via Blabbermouth]