Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
In a recent interview with Alejandro Bonilla Carvajal of Alejandrosis in Colombia, frontman John Tardy of Obituary was asked if the renowned Florida death metal band will release a new studio album, as per Blabbermouth.
Yeah. It’s tough. You come out with an album nowadays and it takes us that three, four, five years just to kind of cover all the territory [on tour] and get things done. But we’re always collecting rhythms and ideas and songtitles and things like that all day long. It’s kind of what we do. Every time you soundcheck or something, Trevor just turns his amp on or something, and you’re in a cool room and he’ll come up with something and always just kind of go over to his phone, record a little bit, this and that. So you’re always collecting stuff. We’ve just been so busy, but it is kind of our goal to go ahead and start putting some of that stuff together this year and getting some of these ideas put down and start that slow process towards maybe doing another release here, maybe next year or so.
In addition, John was asked to comment on Jack Owen’s recent statement that a tour of the “Big Four” of Florida death metal — Morbid Angel, Deicide, Obituary, and Cannibal Corpse — could never take place because there wasn’t enough camaraderie among the bands to make it happen.
[Laughs] That’s not us. You know what? We have personally always been that band for as long as I can remember… And I know there’s lots of bands that would show up and they might say, ‘Oh, we’re better than you. We wanna play after you,’ or, ‘We wanna headline’ and this and that. And you can even see with a lot of the tours that we do, we have no problem in the world opening for anybody. I don’t really care. It doesn’t bother me whatsoever to open for anybody else. And I would open for Cannibal Corpse or Deicide on any given day. And maybe some other bands always aren’t like that. Maybe they feel like they should be a headlining band and maybe that means something to them. It doesn’t matter to us. We like to drink and party a lot, so if to get on earlier in the night and get done and then go ahead and start drinking, I’m totally down with that. [Laughs]
John responded as follows when asked whether it meant he would be amenable to performing on stage with all of those bands.
Yeah, you know what? We’ve done a couple of tours with Cannibal Corpse, and we have told Glen [Benton, Deicide frontman] before that we wanna do some tours with them before we’re all too old to do it. And he keeps promising that we’ll get together and do something. So, it wouldn’t surprise me [if we did something together]. We’ve been friends with Testament for the longest of time and finally just went and got to do our first European tour with Testament, which was fun for us. I know they’re not a Florida band, but they’re friends of ours from long ago. And Steve DiGiorgio is a really good friend. We actually had Chuck Billy — [he] just flew in the town this weekend. Me and my brother, we went golfing with Chuck and went and had some dinner and stuff and hung out with him. So that was a lot of fun. But it wouldn’t surprise me, and hopefully here sometime soon we get to at least maybe do some shows with Deicide, for sure.
