In a recent interview with the Appetite For Distortion podcast, Todd Kerns discussed the progress of songwriting and recording for the next Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators album.
While the songs for the album are written, it seems that it will take a while for it to come out. “The songs are written. We’ve all heard the songs, but we went in and sort of focused on the musical side of it, so that it’ll be sung at some point as well,” Kerns said. “So it’s been really interesting, kind of, like, we have a moment, a window of time to make this record.”
He continued, “We will figure out where to place that down the line, so that being release… I’m hopeful for the end of ’25, but I’ve been around long enough to kind of go that can easily turn into early ’26, no problem. Which is messed up to talk about in January of ’25. But knowing how quick… It was yesterday, it was January of 2024, so, to me, I kind of feel like it just feels like time goes fast. I’m already looking at my calendar booked till pretty much September, and I’m, like, ‘Wow.'”
“It’s like you get on the treadmill and it just takes you all the way to September in the blink of an eye and you go, ‘Whoa. What just happened?’ And by then, who knows what we’ll be talking about? So, like I said, I’m hoping it’ll be out in the world by then, but it could very easily be ’26 at this point, so who knows? But it’s happening. That’s the important thing,” the guitarist added.
In December, Myles Kennedy detailed the easiest and the hardest parts of the upcoming album. “The good news is that the demoing and all that, the writing was done before I even embarked on this last [solo] tour. The easy part is the recording; the hard part is the writing,” he revealed.
“Slash and I were — he was sending me demos of the tunes. Then I was spending time with him, coming up with melodies and lyrics. And so that’s all done — I think with the exception of one song. Now I just have to find a moment to get in the studio and all that, knock that out.”
He added, “But I will say that just even in the demo process and where we stood there before they went in to actually make the record musically, it is really exciting stuff. I’m really, really stoked about where this one’s going. It’s gonna be cool.”
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators’ album ‘4’ came out in February 2022 via Gibson Records and BMG. It was Slash’s fifth solo album and the fourth with his band, including Myles Kennedy, Brent Fitz, Todd Kerns, and Frank Sidoris.
