Although it's been only seven months since Metal Church released their latest album, XI, frontman Mike Howe, who returned to the band last year, recently revealed in an interview the band's plans to begin writing their next album, possibly due for release next year.

Howe states: "We have every intention of doing that and that's what it's all about. If you're not putting on new music, then it's time to go away for me. In Metal Church... it's always been like a two-year cycle band, but we put our album out this year in March. So our album is actually only being out for six months. But we have plans on this fall getting back to writing and try to put something out next year. We're also looking at some dates for the spring possibly back in the States and maybe back over here. But our drummer Jeff, he's also on the TSO. He leaves from the end of October through December. So we might take that time to start writing new record."

Source:	metal-rules.com
Band profile:	Metal Church