It’s now official: Suicidal Tendencies’ upcoming record is in the works. The band has recently reposted a story on Instagram from their studio session, hinting that they might be currently creating their new album.
Suicidal Tendencies have been teasing their upcoming album since 2024. Frontman Mike Muir believes people might not like the new effort, but he’d still be happy with it.
“We realized that a lot of people, with music, you look around and you see what’s popular, what’s trendy, and we go back to what was popular and trendy when we did our first record, and we didn’t do any of that and all the reviews were terrible. And so we’ll do a record that people probably will not like, and I will be very happy and stuff,” he said at a press conference last year.
“When we did the last record [of all-new material], it was ‘World Gone Mad’ in 2016, I kind of said, it sounds bad, but I don’t enjoy making records, because it’s like full-on mental f*ck to me and, then it’s the time and the family and everything,” the rocker continued. “It’s difficult. But now having [guitarist] Ben [Weinman] in the band, [drummer] Jay [Weinberg] in the band…”
The singer also mentioned Jay Weinberg’s desire to make a record with the band. “One of the first things Jay did after we did a couple shows, he’s just, like, going, ‘Dude, I wanna f*cking make a record.’ And the way he and Ben, they said it, they go, like… Ben was, like, ‘When I was 12 years old and I heard Suicidal, it spoke to me. And other music, I heard a lot of music.’ He goes, ‘I wanna do a record like that.’ And that’s exactly what Jay said.”
“Obviously, having [bassist] Tye, Robert’s [Trujillo] a son in there, Robert’s, like, ‘Dude, you guys need to make a record. do that thing.’ And so I think that we’re definitely leaning towards doing it,” he added.
It’s been nine years now since Suicidal Tendencies put out their most recent album of new material, ‘World Gone Mad.’
