ARMORED SAINT's current lineup is the same as the one on 2000's "Revelation" and 1992's "Symbol of Salvation" LPs:

John Bush (vocals)
Jeff Duncan (guitar)
Phil Sandoval (guitar)
Joey Vera (bass)
Gonzo (drums)

Dirty Rock Magazine recently conducted an interview with ARMORED SAINT bassist Joey Vera. A couple of excerpts for the chat follow below.

Dirty Rock Magazine: You announced in December you're writing material for a new SAINT album. Can you give us any idea on the progress so far and when you might expect a release?

Vera: We've been writing kind of under the radar since the summer, but we didn't make the announcement until December. So we've got a pretty good handful of songs and we are just demoing them so they haven't been recorded by the whole band yet. Basically, we'll be ready to start recording in the next month or two but I don't know if we'll have a chance before we go to Australia but we're hoping to. I don't know when the full release will be but the way people get their music nowadays is changing a little bit; actually it's changing quite a lot. You may actually here from us, as far as new recorded music, I would say sooner than later. Let's leave it at that.

Dirty Rock Magazine: Fair enough. So as a band, are you looking to continue making albums after this?

Vera: Yeah, we don't really think that far ahead. It's a big deal for us to even commit to doing this right now. A lot of us have families and other things going on, musically and in relation to other bands. Like I said before, we're not really a working group where we are constantly working on new material or working towards furthering our career or status or whatever. It's not something we do; we're not active like an "average" band signed to a label and does a record every one or two years kind of thing. It was a commitment for us to say, OK, let's write some songs, let's write a new record, let's do some dates and try to go to places we've never been before." That was enough of a commitment for us right now. To think about what's going to happen after this is a whole other level.

Los Angeles metal veterans ARMORED SAINT have announced the track listing for their recently completed new album, "La Raza", due on March 16, 2010 via Metal Blade Records. The CD was recorded at Burbank, California's Tranzformer Studios, which is owned by Dave Jerdan (ALICE IN CHAINS, JANE'S ADDICTION), who produced ARMORED SAINT's 1991 classic "Symbol of Salvation" and Bryan Carlstrom, who engineered the same album. The band's first new release since 2001's "Nod to the Old School" was produced by bassist Joey Vera and engineered by Carlstrom and his assistant John Nuss.

"La Raza" track listing:

01. Loose Cannon
02. Head On
03. Left Hook from Right Field
04. Get Off the Fence
05. Chilled
06. La Raza
07. Black Feet
08. Little Monkey
09. Blues
10. Bandit Country

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQrgapjWF-Y

Hop la pochette, ça sort bientôt donc et c'est bon et bordel ça fait du bien d'entendre John Bush, je les avais vu au Graspop, y avait pas un clebard devant la scène, j'espère que ce disque leur permettra de se lancer un peu même si le statut de Bush avec Anthrax est très loin d'être clair

Drôle de pochette vu le groupe.

j'espère que ça sonnera pas trop "actuel". Pour les avoir vu deux fois ces trois dernières années, ils sont un peu trop typé hardcore, (que dans l'attitude pour l'instant) ce qui m'inquiète un peu je dois l'avouer...

Le morceau sur Myspace ("Lef Hook") en écoute est pas mal. Ca sonne assez Thrash (soft). Je croise les doigts. En tout cas, c'est fou à quel point BUSH peut marquer un groupe de son empreinte (on a carrément l'impression d'écouter du ANTHRAX en moins speed).