Mike Muir Says Next Suicidal Tendencies Album Could Come Out Next Year

Crack yourself a Pepsi and get excited, folks. It looks like the wait for a new Suicidal Tendencies album could be ending in the next year or so. At least that’s what frontman Mike Muir said during a recent appearance on Australia’s Wall Of Sound.

News of the band’s potential follow up to 2018’s Still Cyco Punk After All These Years came about during Muir’s discussion of the band’s most recent single release, “Adrenaline Addict”. Asked whether the single’s release meant Muir was softening on the idea of doing another album, he revealed that there’s a chance.

“Well, I had said that [about not releasing another album] after we did [2016’s] World Gone Mad. And I’m not saying it’s too much work, because work doesn’t bother me; it’s how you define things and stuff. But it wasn’t enjoyable in the sense that most things aren’t enjoyable. But as my dad said, most things that you end up proud of aren’t enjoyable at the time, but afterwards you’re, like, climbing a mountain, when you get to the top, it’s, like, ‘Wow, I did this.’ It’s accomplishment, but every step is probably painful. But with music, just that kind of perception of putting out music that people assume you’re doing it to be liked and you want people to like it. And when you have a history of not doing music to be liked, and people forget what we went through, being on the outside, it kind of, like… I don’t wanna be at the point of where I’m defending myself.”

According to Muir, writing for some of the music has already begun, though the intent wasn’t always to release anything new into the wild. He was apparently doing it, as the kids say, for the love of the game.

“Years ago, since they had Pro Tools and everything like that, we had our Pro Tools studio and have people come over from around the world or something, and they’ll be talking and I’ll play a song and they’re, like, ‘Oh, dude, what is this? Is this SUICIDAL? And when’s it coming out?’ I go, ‘We did that 12 years ago or something.’ They go, ‘When are you gonna put it out?’ I go, ‘I don’t know. I don’t think we will.’ And they were, like, ‘Well, why are you doing it?’ It’s, like, well, ’cause I love music. I love doing things and stuff, but I don’t necessarily do it for other people. And it’s, like, I like food and eating it, but I don’t feel the need to get out there and be a chef and have a restaurant. So it’s kind of a contradiction.

“But in the same sense, one of the things with the lineup now, you have Ben [from] THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, Ben’s been playing with us six or seven years, and one of the things he said, he goes he was 12 or 13 when he first heard SUICIDAL skateboarding. And he said it just kind of made him stop. And he realized, ‘This is different,’ and it made him think, where other records didn’t. And he goes, ‘I wanna make a record like that, that someone, wherever they’re at, whatever they’re doing, when they hear it, they go, ‘Whoa. What is this?” And it sticks out. And the same thing with Jay. He’s got a different perspective from the SUICIDAL thing and the way that he came into music and being introduced to SUICIDAL and then being in a band and having that understanding. I think it’s kind of, like going, well, if we do a new record, it’s gonna be for the right reason. So we’re always recording, but whether there will be a new record — I actually, at this point, think there probably will next year.”