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3 авг 2026 :	BLACKIE LAWLESS: W.A.S.P. Has Been Working On New Music 'For About Three Years Now'
25 июн 2026 :
4 апр 2026 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS Reveals Title Of His Autobiography, Says His Childhood Was Most Challenging Period To Write About
20 мар 2026 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS On Holding Pre-Concert Q&A Sessions With Fans: 'It's Been One Of The Greatest Experiences Of My Life'
18 мар 2026 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS Has No Plans To Retire Anytime Soon: 'Somebody's Gonna Have To Drag Me Off Kicking And Screaming'
20 окт 2025 :	See W.A.S.P. Perform In Oulu, Finland During 'Album ONE Alive!' Fall 2025 European Tour
9 окт 2025 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS Reflects On Time He Ruptured Left Side Of His Voice: 'It Was Terrifying To Go Through'
2 окт 2025 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS Explains How He Managed To Get His 'Body Back' After 2023 Surgery
16 авг 2025 :	W.A.S.P.'s DOUGLAS BLAIR On Possible Follow-Up To 'Golgotha' Album: 'The Stuff We Had Was Sounding Really Cool'
2 июл 2025 :	BLACKIE LAWLESS Is Too Busy Touring To Think About A New W.A.S.P. Studio Album
28 июн 2025 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS On His Health: 'We're Back Up To Speed And Ready To Do What We Do'
1 июн 2025 :	BLACKIE LAWLESS: No Plans For W.A.S.P. Acoustic Album But 'Never Say Never'
27 май 2025 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS Hopes To Release His Autobiography In 2026
30 апр 2025 :	BLACKIE LAWLESS Says 'Censorship Is Worse Now Than It Was In The '80s', Calls DONALD TRUMP 'A Winner'
28 апр 2025 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS: 'Music Has Become Disposable' And 'It's Really Sad'
19 фев 2025 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS Explains Why He Can't Get 'Canceled'
16 фев 2025 :	W.A.S.P.'s 'Bonus Tracks And B-Sides' Gets Digital Release
6 янв 2025 :	W.A.S.P. - Japan Live 1986 Available On Splatter Vinyl And CD In February
23 дек 2024 :	See Final Concert Of W.A.S.P.'s Fall 2024 'Album ONE Alive' 40th-Anniversary North American Tour
18 дек 2024 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS Says Kids Today Believe Music Has 'No Inherent Value': 'I Feel Really Sorry For Them'
10 дек 2024 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS Honours IRON MAIDEN's NICKO McBRAIN - "Very Few In The History Of Percussion Have Left Such A Distinctive Mark As This Man"
2 дек 2024 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS On Performing Entire Debut Album For 40th Anniversary: 'It's A Fun Place To Be Able To Go Back And Visit'
1 дек 2024 :	BLACKIE LAWLESS On W.A.S.P.'s 40th-Anniversary Tour: 'We Try To Give People The Best Bang For The Buck'
23 ноя 2024 :	W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS Defends His Pro-TRUMP Concert Speech: 'I See Him As A Patriot'
20 ноя 2024 :	W.A.S.P. - Watch 4K Video Of Entire "Album ONE Alive" Tour Stop In Toronto
19 ноя 2024 :	Watch: W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS Hails TRUMP While Championing Freedom Of Speech During New York City Concert

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BLACKIE LAWLESS: W.A.S.P. Has Been Working On New Music 'For About Three Years Now'

In an interview with Erin Greatrix of This Day In Metal, W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless was asked if he and his bandmates have been working on new music. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We've been working on stuff for quite some time, but I've also been working on a book. And between that and doing the touring, because bands — it's not what it used to be when you could make money making records anymore. Those days are over. The bands really make the money now touring, and our touring schedule has been such that it's really been difficult to do. But, yes, new music is definitely in the works. It's something we've been working on for about three years now."

Lawless previously talked about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the follow-up to W.A.S.P.'s most recent studio album of all-new original material, 2015's "Golgotha", in a June 2025 interview with Stoyan Tsonev of Bulgaria's Z-Rock radio. Asked if he had anything new to share about the band's upcoming LP, Blackie said: "Not really, because, as we were saying, the tour schedule has been so crazy. Everybody wants to know when — 'When are you gonna have this? When are you gonna have that?' It's, like, well, you know what? It's a big world out there, and it takes a long time to get to all these different cities. For this tour that we're on, we just finished doing North America and South America. Now we're gonna be in Europe all this year. So it takes a long time to get to all these places. And so where does that leave us when we're finished? Then we go back and look at doing a book, maybe finishing the album. But, like I said, the touring schedule is so intense that there just hasn't been time to do everything."

In July 2024, Lawless confirmed to George Dionne of KNAC.COM that he and his W.A.S.P. bandmates had been working on music for the follow-up to "Golgotha". He said: "We have been, and last year, we had done quite a bit of work in between the American tour and the European tour, we did a lot of recording, a lot of demoing. And I thought I liked what I was hearing, and then I came back. I had a problem with my back last year when we were in Europe, and, actually, my back got broken while we were over there, so I had to have a couple of surgeries when we got home from the tour. And it gave me a lot of time to sit around, twiddle my thumbs and just listen to stuff. And I listened to the demos that we did, and there is some good moments, but it's not consistent. 'Golgotha' was a very consistent record. I mean, 'Golgotha', I think, is one of the best things I've ever been a part of. And to try to at least do something on that level…"

He continued: "Today, a band like us, it's all about your legacy, because we're not making records anymore to sell records. I mean, those days are gone. But what we do, or what any artist does when they make a new record now, they are competing against their past. So your new album effectively becomes your opening act, and it's an opening act that's going up against songs that the audience has heard and romanced in their heads for decades. That's stiff competition. So when something new comes out, for it to even be remotely considered good, in all honesty, it has to be better than the original stuff, and that's no joke.

"It had been a while since I listened to 'Golgotha', and I listened to it — I don't know — a couple months ago, and it was, like, 'Wow, this is a pretty good record,'" Lawless added. "And it has to be that good to compete with the 'L.O.V.E. Machine's and the 'I Wanna Be Somebody''s of the world. Because, again, people are romancing those songs in their head, and rightfully so.

"Music does a funny thing to our sense of time. It creates memories, the same way smell does and things like that. We remember where we were when we heard a certain song, and those are very powerful memories. And I'm glad we have that, but at the same time, when you're the person that has to create new music, you're constantly going up against that legacy.

"So, again, the new album will always be your opening act, and your opening act has to try harder just to get noticed," Blackie concluded.

W.A.S.P.'s latest release was "ReIdolized (The Soundtrack To The Crimson Idol)", which came out in February 2018. It was a new version of the band's classic 1992 album "The Crimson Idol", which was re-recorded to accompany the movie of the same name to mark the 25th anniversary of the original LP's release. The re-recorded version also features four songs missing from the original album.

Blackie previously spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for W.A.S.P.'s new LP in a 2024 interview with Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station. He said: "We still are [working on it]. What happened was when we came back from the European tour, I had to have surgery and stuff, about a year prior to that, we had been working on a lot of new stuff. And when I came back, I've had a long time to go through those early demos, of what we have been working on. Listening to it with fresh ears, some of it's really good, but there's not enough of it yet where I would be comfortable in saying, 'Okay, this is finished, and let's go with it.' I'd like to go back and visit the drawing board, so to speak, and see what else is there. Because even from a two-year period of when we started working on that before to where we are right now, you're gonna gain so much, you're gonna grow so much."

Blackie continued: "I've learned you don't make records or I don't make records anymore that are spread out over a two- or three-year period, because the guy you are when you first start making it is not the guy you are when you finish making it. Get in, six months top to bottom, get that thing cranked out, because, like I said, if you don't, you end up running the risk of it kind of being a schizophrenic type of record where you've got one type of one thing and then the other half is something else and it has no real cohesiveness."

Asked what kind of stuff inspires him now, Blackie said: "Well, when we got ready to start this record a couple years ago, my mindset was I wanted to do a heavy, nasty, stinky rock and roll record. And that's where my heart was at. But when I started to write, that's not what was coming out. And so when you first start the process, you think, 'Okay. We'll go along with whatever comes out to begin with, but I wanna try to start steering this ship in a different direction as time goes by.' And that's just not what was happening. It was stuff that was more in-depth. And I thought, we did call 'Golgotha', that's one of those thinking man's records, and I thought, I don't wanna do that this time. I wanna do something that's a little lighter, like I said, a little nastier, stinkier old-time rock and roll, but as hard as I was trying to force it in that direction, that's not what was happening. Now, when we get done with this tour and the European tour next year, then it'll be time to start looking at that again in earnest. So who knows where we'll come out of it again? To give you an honest answer, I'd need a crystal ball right now to tell you that, 'cause I don't know."

In November 2023, Blackie addressed the high musical standard of W.A.S.P. most recent albums, telling Canada's The Metal Voice: "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."

Earlier this year, W.A.S.P. announced the "1984 To Headless" 2026 U.S. and Canada tour with KK'S PRIEST as very special guest. The tour kicks off on September 10 in California and runs through October 31. W.A.S.P. will be playing the hits from the band's first four albums.

W.A.S.P. will be again offering fans VIP tickets that give fans a chance to meet Blackie Lawless, get a personal photo with Blackie, autographs, a W.A.S.P. traveling museum with new items added since the last U.S. tour, and take part in a very personal Q&A with Blackie. VIP tickets can be purchased at waspnation.myshopify.com.

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3 авг 2026

deathfry

А что у них из последнего такого, чтобы можно было послушать как Вайлд Чайлд?

3 авг 2026

Орион

deathfry, теперь нужно спрашивать "что почитать" 😂🤣

3 авг 2026

olly71

deathfry, последний на сегодняшний день студийник Голгофа был очень даже не плох.

3 авг 2026

deathfry

olly71, можно конкретные треки которые прямо вау?

3 авг 2026

Klawd Air

deathfry, "Miss You". А вообще весь альбом хороший. Васп одна из тех групп, у которых откровенно плохих песен нет.

3 авг 2026

Family Ghost

deathfry, конкретные треки из позднего Васпа (21 век):
The Burning Man, Babylons Burning, Into The Fire, Scream, Asylum #9, Last Runaway.
Но, конечно, первые 5 альбомов всегда будут вне конкуренции.

3 авг 2026

EvgenBriden

deathfry, заглавная песня "Golgotha" так же обалденная)