SKID ROW guitarist Dave “Snake” Sabo has confirmed that fans have quite a wait ahead of them when it comes to a new album from the band.
Speaking with The Music Universe, Sabo did however offer the good news that the first single from the effort should be arriving next month.
When asked if SKID ROW have a release date for their new album, Snake said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It looks like, as it stands now, September 16th. But we’ll be coming out with new music, it looks like, around the second [or] third week of March.”
Sabo also touched on the possibility of SKID ROW releasing a number of singles instead of a full-length album.
“Well, I think that the way that we’re doing it now we haven’t done before,” he said. “I think we’re at a stage in our careers and our lives where we’re just really open to other viewpoints. Okay, so we’re working with a new label. They obviously know what works for them better than we know what works for them. And we also know what works for us. And this whole process has been about kind of getting rid of old ways of thinking and doing things and being wide open to what exists in the current market and what exists in the current state of music. And so we wanna embrace those ideas. And not everything is gonna work for the way we work, but we’re definitely much more open [to it] in every facet — from the creation of music to the releasing of the music.
“We love the ritual of the process of opening vinyl or the process of getting into a CD,” he continued. “Rachel [Bolan, SKID ROW bassist] and I were just talking about this last night. It’s still a big part of our love of music, that process of the ritual, like I said — of having that physical product in your hand and putting it on the turntable or the CD player. And I understand that 80 percent of music is streamed these days, and that makes sense, and I embrace that as well. I mean, that’s how I listen to a lot of music; that’s how I discover a lot of music, be it on Spotify or YouTube or Amazon. And it’s great. I’m not one of those guys that condemns those platforms at all. I think it’s overcrowded and it’s not as easy to discover music, maybe, as it used to be. I still harken back to the days of underground tape trading, which was great, and underground fanzines and things like that, and that was a great way to discover music. But it’s different now, and I welcome it. I don’t lament the past — I embrace the now — and I also still know what I love as a guy who just loves music. And they can all work — they’re not exclusive of one another; it can all work together.”
SKID ROW’s new album will be their first release with vocalist ZP Theart (DRAGONFORCE, TANK, I AM I), who joined the band in 2016 following the departure of Tony Harnell (TNT, STARBREAKER).
The record was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who has previously worked with bands such as FOO FIGHTERS, DEFTONES, HALESTORM, EVANESCENCE, RUSH and ALICE IN CHAINS, and many more.