Isaak Finish Work on New Album
The first Isaak release of the decade will be a new full-length album set to arrive next year on a yet-to-be-announced label. The Genova, Italy, four-piece were last heard from with a 2019 split they shared with Chron Goblin (review here), and their most recent album is 2015’s Sermonize (review here), which was issued on Heavy Psych Sounds.
There’s no audio or anything like that at this point — one assumes there will be announcements of announcements before we get there; such is the way of things in the world of need-to-make-content-to-exist, not that I’d know — but the band posted an update saying they’d finished the mastering and I chased them down for a little bit more of what they can say at this point, so at least we know there’s a cover that’s longer than “Yeah” by Kyuss, which leaves it pretty open, and the album was done with Fabio Palombi in Genoa. And they took a snazzy picture.
As to what it might sound like, you’d be forgiven for needing a refresher since it’s been seven years at this point — might be eight before the next record’s out — since Sermonize was released. If you’d like to know how they do, both of the above-mentioned outings are streaming at the bottom of this post.
Here’s what they had to say:
HEY
Album rec. done!
Mastering done!
High fashion photoshoot 2022/2023 by @davide_colombino done!
Now it’s the turn for the IRREPLACEABLE master of ceremonies @solomacello (#128420#) Can’t wait!
The new album will consist of 10 tracks + one cover, ok not funny like the last one (we had covered “YEAH” by KYUSS if you remember) but certainly longer ahahah. It’s been 7 years more or less since our last work and like many other bands these have been really difficult years, surely the lyrics and the “intensity” of the songs have been influenced a lot by these past years.
We are very happy about what we have done, this new collaboration with Fabio Palombi (Blackwave studio in Genoa Italy) has given us the new energy we were looking for.
Will it be a purely stoner record? will it be metal? will it be rock? will it be POP? Who knows? ahahahha
For sure it will be our usual sound or “soul” that someone once defined: Riffalicious fastforward Stoner Rock
We really can’t wait to share it!
The album will be out in the first half of 2023 for sure but we cannot give further details yet :(
Isaak
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