Suicidal Tendencies’ Mike Muir Says the Band’s “Been Recording a Lot of Stuff”

Having been around for four decades and still going strong, Suicidal Tendencies shows no sign of slowing down just yet. At least that’s what it sounded like during a recent interview with Bobby Dee Presents featuring frontman Mike Muir.

During the sit down talk (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Muir was asked whether the current iteration of Suicidal Tendencies — which includes ex-Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman and OTTTO bassist/Rob Trujillo’s son Tye Trujillo — had any plans to cut some new music. His answer suggests they’ll have something new soon, but it might not be what fans expect.

“Right now we’ve been recording a lot of stuff and [it’s] completely different and to the point where I go, ‘Yeah, people won’t like this. So it’s probably what I should do.’”

Looking back over the last few years, especially during the COVID lockdowns, Muir said he realized many artists were spending the lockdown working on new music, but he focused on other things.

“Yeah, I think we go about it differently than a lot of people. Especially, I think, when the COVID happened, you realize — as my dad would call it, he called it the panicky people. And you don’t do things because you’re panicking; you do things because it’s something you feel in your heart. And so when that happened, [some] people [said], ‘Oh, we’re recording all these songs. We’re doing this. Ain’t got nothing else to do.’ And I go, ‘That’s not what music’s about. It’s not about, you got nothing better to do.’

“You should have things better. If you don’t, then you better spend some time trying to figure out what you need to be doing. But there’s a lot of music that we’ve always recorded that we love, that means stuff to us. And then there’s stuff you realize that, like — I go back to the first record. One of my best friends said, he goes, ‘Man, Mike, listen to radio. You can do that. What you’re doing ain’t music.’ And I go, ‘I don’t like what’s on the radio, so I don’t wanna do that. I just wanna do my thing, whether people like it or not.’ He goes, ‘You don’t think people like it?’ I go, ‘I don’t care if people like it. It’s what I wanna do.’”

Suicidal Tendences hasn’t dropped a new album since 2018’s Still Cyco Punk After All These Years via Suicidal Records.