Hard rockers FOZZY previously outlined their plans to release new material one single at a time for the foreseeable future. The band is about to embark on a tour of the U.K., and guitarist Rich Ward spoke with MetalTalk about when fans can expect the next FOZZY track to drop.
“I think we’re gonna stick with just releasing singles for a while,” Ward said. “And I think part of the reason for that is on the last album, ‘Boombox’, we spent so much time on it. And every song is very important to us. And then two or three songs get released to singles and then the rest of them kind of go in the bin, so to speak. And Chris Jericho, the singer in FOZZY, just so for context, he was really hurt by it, because he realizes that now because we’re not in the age of albums anymore where people go and buy physical albums — we’re in the days of playlists and singles and streaming — and he felt like we should spend our time really focused on a song at a time and release them like that. And it’s helped us in a lot of ways because the pressure of making a 12- or 14-song album, especially when Chris has two or three other careers that take up a lot of time. So it allows us to not water down the process by focusing on this, this, this and this and this. And making an album, to do it properly, if you were all in a room together as a band, about a month to write and a month to record. And FOZZY can’t do that, just because of, like I said, just the way that we are as a band, the way that it came up.”
Ward continued: “So the goal moving forward is just to put everything we have into every song. There’s a brand new song that we’re working on right now. Chris just recorded the vocals last week. It’ll probably be released, I would say, March, something like that. We were hoping to get it out for this most recent U.K. tour that I’ll be seeing you guys in a few weeks. But like I said, it’s up to the universe. We work with a producer named Johnny Andrews. He produces a million big bands himself, so it’s all down to scheduling.”
Ward’s full interview can be viewed below.
