In a new interview with Viky Surmová of Project Backstage, FIREWIND guitarist Gus G. spoke about the progress of the songwriting and recording sessions for the follow-up to the “Stand United” album, which came out in March 2024 via AFM. He said : “Yes, I’m already working on the follow-up album. We just signed a brand new record deal. It should be announced pretty soon. And we are excited about it. And we’re working on a really cool album. It’s gonna be a concept album. Yeah, I can’t tell you what it’s about, but it’s gonna be epic and massive. And I’m excited.”
Gus continued: “Yeah, we even recorded the drums already, so we’ve got 10 new songs. We’re ready to go. We’re working on the vocals right now and lyrics and things like that. And we are aiming for next year release sometime. I don’t know when, but hopefully as soon as possible. “
Apart from their new album, Gus referred also to their touring activity promoting “Stand United”: “It’s been just a little over a year [since we released the LP]. Basically, we toured pretty hard for that album. We went on tour straight after it came out. I think last year we did about 80 shows, or 70-80 shows, something like that. Man, we were on the road for five months. But we did a European tour, we did an American headline tour, which we hadn’t done in 13 years. We did a support tour where we supported DRAGONFORCE right after the pandemic, but our own headline thing we hadn’t done since 2011. And yeah, we did that. We went to Asia. Then we did another tour in Europe. So we did a lot of stuff. We did a U.K. tour. We just wrapped things up this past February; that’s when the world tour officially kind of ended.”
Finally, he mentioned that this is the end of “Stand United” cycle and they are ready for the next step with new material coming up soon.
