Massachusetts nü metal titans Staind are reportedly working on their first new music in almost a decade.
Frontman Aaron Lewis appeared on Godsmack frontman Sully Erna’s webshow, Hometown Sessions, where he revealed that he was spending his time in lockdown cooking up nü Staind material.
“I’m working on new Staind shit… We’re toying around with some creativity,” he revealed.
The band’s last record came in the form of 2011’s eponymous Staind. The band played their first full live show in five years last September at Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky. They were set to hit the road as support act for Disturbed’s “The Sickness 20th Anniversary Tour”, before miss rona reared her ugly head.
This is the first we’ve heard of new music from the seminal act, “maybe I just fucked up and said something I wasn’t supposed to say,” joked Aaron.
In addition to working on new Staind tunes, Lewis revealed that he has a solo LP in the works — which will likely be released later this year.
“I’ve got a completely acoustic [album] — no coloration to it,” he shared. “It’s not gonna be country, it’s not gonna be anything except an acoustic guitar and vocals. That’s what’s next.
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“The last show that I played here in Nashville, just me acoustically, with no back-up band or anything,” he added. “I was playing some of the songs off the country records, and I was playing some of the songs from Staind, but all just me and the acoustic guitar.
“That simplifies everything — that takes away the country flavor, that takes away the rock flavor, that takes away everything and just leaves the skeletal structure.”
These past few years have seen a renaissance of wallet chains and baggy carpenter jeans, it’s only right that we get the nü metal revival we’ve all been hoping for.
Check out Hometown Sessions Ep. 16 “Aaron Lewis of Staind”:
