In a new interview with Canada's 'The Metal Voice', Blackie Lawless confirmed that the work on the next W.A.S.P. full length has commenced.

"We're pretty far into it right now. But when this thing happened on the tour," referring to the injuries he sustained, "and then I blew a gasket, then all that got put on the back burner. But we're pretty far into the writing process right now. And we're excited about it, but it looks like we won't be able to get back to it until after the first of the year."

Addressing the high musical standard of W.A.S.P. most recent albums, Blackie said: "Nobody makes money making records anymore. So if you're going to make records now, you're doing it because of your legacy. And if you're going to do that, then you really have to make sure that it's as strong as it can be, because it's always gonna be measured against what you did to begin with."

He continued: "All bands, they make their bones the first five years they're together, the first five or six records they make; their whole legacy is cemented there. It doesn't mean you can't make good records later on down the line, but everything is gonna be constantly compared to that… In other words, think of whatever new record you do now as your opening act. It's always gonna be compared to that early stuff. And so for it to get an honest review or a fair shake, so to speak, that new record has to maybe be even better than the original stuff was, because people have had so many years to romance those older songs in their heads. And when you go up against people that have been doing that for a long time, it's hard to erase those memories, and you don't wanna do that anyway. But you just want the new stuff to have a chance to compete. And the only way that new stuff can do that is they have to be solid records."

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