Suicidal Tendencies frontman Mike Muir recently spoke to Loudwire about the band’s long-awaited album featuring new material. He comments,

“We’ve always had new music in the works. Now it’s actually to the point that we have some that we’re ready to put out. Now is the time to put out a new record and we feel really, really good about it. There will definitely be a record out this year.”

Mike was also asked what fans can expect from the new record and his response was, “The way we look at it is that next year will be the 30th anniversary of our first record. When we look at a record, we don’t want to have it sound like 2012. We want it to sound awesome 25 years from now, so when a kid who wasn’t even born when we made it listens to it, he’s like, “Damn, that’s a cool record!” I just had a guy from a radio station tell me that some listeners have been requesting the new song ‘Institutionalized.’ The young listeners don’t realize that’s an old song! Something like this [Orion] is good for us, too, because a lot of people who wouldn’t have listened to us will check us out because they know Robert was in the band.”

Suicidal Tendencies haven’t released a studio album featuring all-new material since Free Your Soul and Save My Mind in 2000 and three new albums are said to be completed, although neither of them have a release date. The band is currently embarking on a European tour.