Scott Ian: "...we've got about 12 songs written."

[Joecephus]

Via Blabbermouth:

Asked about the progress of the songwriting sessions for ANTHRAX's follow-up to 2011's "Worship Music" album, Ian said: "We're in the middle of writing right now. That's just basically all we've been doing, is working on songs. We're just hard, hard, hard at work, with the goal — hopefully — of before the summer, before we go to Europe to start playing festivals, we would love to be able to go into the studio and start recording it.

"We're going to Europe in the summer to play shows, and then maybe [we can get the] album [out] sometime later this year, but we don't have any definite schedule yet."

He added: "We're just gonna keep writing until we're happy, until we're ready. We're really happy with where we're at right now, and we've got about 12 songs written. Because it's going so well, we figure, why stop? We're gonna just keep writing, and if we have too many songs, then we can just pick what we wanna put on the record."

Regarding whether guitarist Jonathan Donais (SHADOWS FALL) — who joined ANTHRAX in January 2013 following the departure of Rob Caggiano — has been involved in the creative process so far, Ian said: "He hasn't contributed to the songwriting at this point, but he's writing leads, that's for sure."

Blabbermouth has a link to the full audio interview.

 

[Social Distortion]

These guys are pretty fast at recording albums, right? I mean the recording only, we all know how fast they write...

 

[mrthrax]

Fair point sd,I'd be really surprised if it comes out this year,can anthrax possibly do it

 

[johnnieCzech]

2015-2016.

 

[mrthrax]

2015-2016.

Spot on,they will get sidetracked with a lot of touring opportunities plus Scott is writing a book as well as speaking words shows

 

[Social Distortion]

Fair point sd,I'd be really surprised if it comes out this year,can anthrax possibly do it

I honestly meant that maybe the actual recording is not the problem, anybody know anything?