Trouble to Record New Studio Album
Hammerheart Records has been dutifully working through the Trouble catalog, reissue by reissue, since the Chicago doom legends signed with the label in 2020. At the time, the band and founding guitarists Rick Wartell and Bruce Franklin — who are about as close as human beings could come to being the bridge between Sabbath‘s doom and Priest‘s double-guitar metal — said at the time that a new album was in the works, and you know what? It probably was. It’s been a hell of a couple years, as you already know, so sometimes these things get put to the back burner of one’s existence.
By the time whatever-the-next-record-is-called arrives, it will have been a decade since 2013’s The Distortion Field (review here), Trouble‘s most recent album in their many-storied career. The album also will be their second with Kyle Thomas (Exhorder, Alabama Thunderpussy) on vocals and their first since the death last year of original frontman Eric Wagner. If 2023 sounds like the future, it is. It’s also like four months away.
I’m curious who’s producing — Chicago’s not short on quality in that regard, from Steve Albini to Sanford Parker and beyond — but there’s time for discovery. For now here’s the doing-a-thing announcement from the label via the PR wire:
TROUBLE ANNOUNCES RECORDING OF NEW ALBUM
Last week Trouble founding member Rick Wartell announced that Trouble has begun recording a new album, yes finally! The last album “The Distortion Field” dates back to 2013. When Trouble announced their co-operation with Hammerheart Records in January 2020 it was already planned to record a new album in the Summer of 2020. We all know that did not happen, because the World was a different place in 2020 (and in 2021 as well). But recording has finally started in July 2022.
Hammerheart Records expects a release in 2023. When asking Rick Wartell what to expect he said it will be a real Trouble album, with all the trademarks. Trouble is: Kyle Thomas (vocals), Rob Hultz (bass), Mark Lira (drums) and as always on guitars: Bruce Franklin and Rick Wartell!
Trouble is:
Kyle Thomas : vocals,
Bruce Franklin : guitar,
Rick Wartell : guitar,
Rob Hultz : bass,
Marko Lira : drums
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