Very excited... and skeptical.

The lack of comments here shows that fans are losing interest...and belief. Can't blame them though...

I really hope that this album is FINALLY getting recorded and then can get the new Mercyful Fate album next!!

Cool story bro

This will never happen

Having recently gone through the whole studio recording process for an album, I find myself curious about what is actually causing such a protracted process; the 2020 article linked in the news article mentioned that KD has a studio in his house, so recording availability shouldn't be a factor. Presumably they either can't finalize the songs they want to record or they can't get good takes, not sure which is a worse omen for the album's likelihood of being finished/sounding good

Written by musclassia on 18.06.2024 at 17:50

Having recently gone through the whole studio recording process for an album, I find myself curious about what is actually causing such a protracted process; the 2020 article linked in the news article mentioned that KD has a studio in his house, so recording availability shouldn't be a factor. Presumably they either can't finalize the songs they want to record or they can't get good takes, not sure which is a worse omen for the album's likelihood of being finished/sounding good

Maybe they should ask Jari (Wintersun) for pointers

Written by TortoiseSage on 18.06.2024 at 15:11

I really hope that this album is FINALLY getting recorded and then can get the new Mercyful Fate album next!!

Sure hope so too!

Written by skelator on 18.06.2024 at 17:40

This will never happen

We'll never know. If it comes out this year or next year, it would have beaten Guns N' Roses' longest gap between records (Chinese Democracy was released some 17/15 years after Use Your Illusion/The Spaghetti Incident while The Institute also came out 17 years ago). I'm more interested in new King or Mercyful than new GN'R anyway.

Written by Lord Slothrop on 18.06.2024 at 00:37

Very excited... and skeptical.

Very skeptical... and excited.

About the fucking time!

Written by musclassia on 18.06.2024 at 17:50

Having recently gone through the whole studio recording process for an album, I find myself curious about what is actually causing such a protracted process; the 2020 article linked in the news article mentioned that KD has a studio in his house, so recording availability shouldn't be a factor. Presumably they either can't finalize the songs they want to record or they can't get good takes, not sure which is a worse omen for the album's likelihood of being finished/sounding good

100%.

I saw them live for an Institution tour...before the pandemic! Something is definitely off here beyond any normal album delays.

King was crazy prolific for like two full decades. Can't really blame the guy for wanting to slow way down, especially post triple-bypass. But teasing an album for 5 or 6 years is just weird.