New Armored Saint in 2010!

[MetalAges]

Awesome news just received from Metal Blade!

ARMORED SAINT begins recording new full-length studio album!
Legendary metalers Armored Saint enters Tranzformer Studios in Burbank, CA to record first studio album since 2000's ‘Revelation'

Los Angeles, CA, October 2, 2009 – Los Angeles' sons of metal, ARMORED SAINT, are set to enter Tranzformer Studios in Burbank, CA to begin recording the band's 6th full-length studio album. Tranzformer Studios is owned by Dave Jerdan (Alice in Chains, Jane's Addiction, etc) who produced ARMORED SAINT's 1991 classic Symbol of Salvation and Bryan Carlstrom who handled engineering on the same album. The SAINT will be working with Bryan Carlstrom who will once again handle engineering duties with the bands very own Joey Vera producing, and both Joey and Bryan mixing the record. A partial song list for the upcoming album, which is expected to hit streets in the spring 2010 is: Black Feet, Chilled, Loose Cannon, Blues, La Raza, Head On, Get off the Fence, Left Hook From Right Field.

Here's what ARMORED SAINT vocalist John Bush had to say about how the new album came together:

“About a year and a half or so ago Joey asked me if I'd be interested in writing some songs. I was in the right mind finally, so I said send me something. To be quite honest, I wasn't thinking in terms of ARMORED SAINT but more like just writing rock music. I felt pretty free with that mentality and the ideas felt very organic. With every passing song things improved and next thing we knew we had about eight songs demoed. Although the idea of sparking something completely new was appealing it became clear that if it was Joey and I the reality was, let's not kid ourselves; this is ARMORED SAINT.

So here it comes. Embracing my inner R&B singer and coupling that with our influence of the great seventy's hard rock band's we grew up on.”

ARMORED SAINT bassist Joey Vera comments:

“John and I began writing over 14 months ago and in the beginning we had only a general musical direction in which we were going. Once we decided to keep writing and with more of an intention of turning it into an ARMORED SAINT project, we were faced with a few questions. One was, how does this new music we're writing fit into the current musical styles of today? And should we care? We quickly answered the latter. We realized we should do what we always did and that is to write good songs. And for ourselves first. We are not unaware of our parameters in which we have created over the past 25 years, but we are also not afraid to take chances and simply do what we do best. The idea of trying to continue where we left off over 10 years ago since our last release is not very appealing to me. I have to let go of what I did in 1991 and in 2000. Nothing at all against what we've recorded in the past but my head is in a different place now. Trust me; I still want to kill your senses with music, but just in a different way.”

To get a taste of what the new ARMORED SAINT album will sound like, head over to the band's MySpace page HERE where ARMORED SAINT is streaming the demo version of Loose Cannon (performed with a drum program). Loose Cannon gives fans a glimpse into ARMORED SAINT's writing process and is also a nice taste of what's to come on the band's forthcoming full-length studio release.

Expect the new album from ARMORED SAINT to be released in the spring of 2010. Plenty of studio blogs, photos, and video will be posted to the band's MySpace page and fans can also keep up with the band in the studio through Twitter HERE.

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http://www.armoredsaint.com/
http://twitter.com/thearmoredsaint

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[tsorl]

Album of the year 2010. I don't even care whether it's any good or not, been waiting for this to come for so long.

 

[Vicious Robbie]

Long live the Saint!! This is great news!!

 

[wdiv]

Didn't they announce earlier this year that album would be released in 2009? I won't hold my breath...

 

[Lordlindsey]

Didn't they announce earlier this year that album would be released in 2009? I won't hold my breath...

Also... What if John Bush joins/participates with Anthrax? How does that affect Armored Saint?

 

[EyeballKid]

It won't affect the recording at all, they just finished recording the album and are mixing/mastering right now for a hopeful Winter/Spring '10 release.

As for Bush in Anthrax...let's hope Saint does a tour first.

 

[vomit]

It's gonna be titled "La Raza". Go Saint!!!

 

[SOBiby]

La Raza is gonna kill!!
Here's hoping that Bush remains in Saint!

 

[Catharsis70]

fuck that... let him do everything and anything he wants. more Bush the better. His style between thrax and saint are two different things and killer all the way around.

 

[The_Great_WV_Trendkill]

Just got it yesterday. Incredible stuff!

 

[vomit]

Black Feet is great. Loose Cannon, La Raza & Left Hook are the other great tracks.

Certainly not as heavy as SoS or Revelation. A very good album. They are very talented musicians and it shows. Bush is awesome as usual. I feel the production is good, but on some of the tunes, I wish they would rock a little harder. Seems to me, that is a "somewhat" progressive album.

I would recommend this to Saint fans, and anyone who wants a good rocking album. The packaging is the best they've ever done.

Good job Saint; now, let's get on a tour!uke:

 

[EyeballKid]

This is amazing. So different from anything they've ever done and yet so Armored Saint at the core. Love every second of it (except, well, maybe the lyrics of Little Monkey).