Following up Testament's 2012 album Dark Roots Of Earth, the band made it known that it would like to have an album out by summer 2014. Clearly things didn't go quite as planned, and Testament released Brotherhood Of The Snake in 2016 instead.
In an interview with Metal Wani, frontman Chuck Billy says he really doesn't want to wait another four years between records, and even made it clear during the recording of Brotherhood that the band should get moving on another album.
"No, no, no. Our goal is two years. We hope to have a record out next year. Because we thought we'd have a record out after two years; it just ended up being four, because the process just… I don't know what happened, but it took forever. So this time, like, you know what? I don't wanna do that again. I told Eric [Peterson, guitar] exactly when we were done recording. I said, 'You know what? It's a great record now, but I don't wanna go through what I had to go through to do this again. So why don't we start writing now?' So we decided that when we're not on the road, let's get together and just jam and maybe come up and at least get to that point where we were with this record — a bunch of ideas and riffs and lyrics."
While we'll just have to wait and see if that's true, it would be nice considering Brotherhood Of The Snake was pretty awesome.
