Exodus is set to hit the studio for their next album after 2021’s ‘Persona Non Grata.’
“Jam camp has BEGUN!! Tom and Gary are busy crushing riffs to prepare for the next record! Sh*t is off the charts sick!” the band wrote on their Facebook post, sharing a photo of Gary Holt and Tom Hunting in the studio.
Last October, Hunting spoke to The Metal Voice about Exodus’s upcoming LP and said, “The music is gonna come together really fast and it’s really awesome. We worked last March, April and a little bit in May and got the nucleus for a bunch of songs, basically flip flopped some of the beats on some songs.”
“That happens sometimes. And so I have a lot of material to work with. After this [fall 2024] tour, we’re gonna woodshed. We’ll probably get together in my studio here; I’m in Northern California. Yeah, we’re probably gonna work through the end of December and then into January. So we’ll have two months. And we already have the nucleus of a bunch of great songs,” the musician noted.
“I wrote the lyrics to one [track], ‘The Years Of Death And Dying,’ on the last record, and it turned out to be a really great song. So, I think between that and the journey with the cancer and stuff, it awoke something in me,” Tom replied when asked if he would contribute music and lyrics to the next Exodus album.
He added, “So I’ve got notepads with scribbles, like a whole bunch of stuff. I need to formulate them into songs [laughs], but I got a lot of words and stuff… I’m gonna try to write some [of the lyrics]. Yeah, it’s really fun. And I really enjoy like lyric writing. It’s great.”
In the rest of his conversation, Hunting also revealed that the new Exodus album might include thrash, dark, and experimental elements. It could also feature cover songs from earlier sessions.
