Chevelle are your quintessential lunch pail rockers—always writing, never stopping. Which is what drummer Sam Loeffler confirmed is up with the band currently in a chat with Heavy New York while at Aftershock festival in Sacramento this past weekend.
Loeffler said the band has plenty of new music all ready to go for their next LP, which would be the follow up to 2021's Niratias. "We have a whole bunch of music written now that we're trying to put together another record for (2023)," he said.
"Because that's what we do — you put music out, you write… It'll be our first record in a long time not with a major label, which is just neither here nor there. Epic Records did a lot of good stuff; we were with them for a long time, but we're finished with that contract now. So now we're doing something different. And we'll see how different it is."
As we reported back in June, Loeffler stated on New Jersey radio station WSOU that Chevelle were "[W]riting another album right now. So hopefully we can get into the studio in November/December and have new music out in ’23, which is the thing that excites us. We wanna write, we wanna play — that’s our thing… Hopefully we can keep new music coming out for the rest of our career. Keep going. We’re not old, so we’re just gonna keep doing it.”
In March 2021, Chevelle released Niratias, but was forced to cancel a fall tour of that year as a result of the changing nature of the pandemic. Their appearance at Aftershock capped off several festival dates the band played this summer and fall. When their new LP is released, it will be Chevelle's tenth studio album to date. You can watch the entire interview with Loeffler and Heavy New York below.
