there is no direct plan. I know that Reed, Woody, Mike and Pepper are planning to go and record a new album. Obviously, that's going to be big and get them out there because that's the most well known version of the band. Reed and I have reserved the right to go wherever they will have us. To say, if we have a window, your not busy and I'm not busy, let's take our crew whatever version that isand let's bring it out there. I am also involved in Reed's big project "Teenage Time Killers". This is a really fascinating project. Over the years, Reed has some friends through Studio 606 and the FooFighters Studio. Dave Grohl looks up to Reed and thanks him for starting him on drums. Reed put out "DainBramage" which was Dave's first 7 inch. "Scream" used to play with COC, so they have known each other all along the way. So, Reed went out there and what an awesome bunch of people! Teenage Time Killers is based on a Rudimentary Peni song. Reed is on drums on almost every song. They will be rotating different vocalists. Right now there are like 24 tracks and I sing one of them with Dave Grohl playing bass. I wrote the song its called "Devil In This House" I believe that's going to come out later this year. It's gotten so big that they decided to call it volume one. There are people like Jello Biafra, Randy Blythe, Phil Rind from Sacred Reich. It runs the gambit between this intense metallic crossover to straight up hardcore and almost some pop punk moments, it's an incredible swirl. That's something for everyone to keep their eyes out for.
Mike: I can't wait to see how Jello does on the album!
Karl: Oh my god, do you want to hear the story on that one? This is super cool! John Cleese from Monty Python wrote a piece called "An Ode to Hannity". It was a very funny poem he wrote about Sean Hannity. It's hysterical its fucking John Cleese! What ended up happening was Reed and his friends decided to put that "An Ode To Hannity" to music to create hardcore punk song out of it. They ended up getting Jello Biafra to sing it! Matt from Rise Records says, "Well let's make this legit and let's contact John Cleese and his people." We asked for his permission to use his words in the song, and they responded "It would be our pleasure!" Sorry, I am waxing on about this. It's just a super cool project! (Laughs)
Mike: The fans are going to love this!
Karl: Yeah, I am excited!
Mike: As far as King Hitter do you have anything coming up?
Karl: We absolutely do. King Hitter came together about a year ago with a bunch of friends Scott had been playing with since 1999. We said let's go back to our metal roots and try some stuff. We had a lot of mutual friends, guys we had known forever from different bands, and we started jamming on the weekends. We were like "Holy Shit, we are actually writing good songs!" What's amazing with the band, is everyone writes so it's been a really cool swirl of a lot of different influences. You can hear some stoner stuff in there and then some new wave, or power metal stuff in there. It's just a really cool collective effort. Wwe threw it out there to see what people thought and we ended up connecting with some management. Paula Hogan from Candlelight said she was totally into this and let's put this out. Paula has been a machine. So now we are like ok, this is legit, this isn't just a project. Right now, we are working on booking some tours. We will also be hitting the studio this fall and we have about two thirds of the album written so far. We will keep writing until we have at least two albums worth, then pick the best 12 songs. Hopefully, we will get them out by April of next year.
Mike; Final question for you Karl. What would you like to say to fans of yours?
Karl: Just a straight up thank you. Thank you for helping me get recognition and respect and making me feel important and a part of a greater history. People keep coming back to me and saying , "We consider you one of the greatest singers from this era!" and I am very humbled by that! To be able to get my own spotlight like that, I cannot be more grateful to the fans!