Australian webzine Pyromusic.net caught up with ARMORED SAINT bassist Joey Vera recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Pyromusic.net: The last album was almost a decade ago, that's true, but you've all been fairly busy. Is there a chance we'll see something new from Armored Saint?

Joey Vera: "Well yes. We've been writing and we have a pretty good handful of songs that we've accumulated since summer basically but we didn't make the full decision about what to do until recently. We have decided to put some songs out. We're still in the writing process but we've got a good ten songs ready to record. So we hope to go into the studio very soon. People may hear songs from us sooner rather than later. We may do some recordings in the next couple of months. We may want to start getting songs out there as soon as possible. But we are in the process of making a new record."

Pyromusic.net: "It must have been a tough time for you and John with the whole ANTHRAX "reunion". John hasn't really spoken much about it, but I believe he's made his peace with the guys and it doesn't really seem to be a big issue with him now. But was that a difficult period?

Joey Vera: Certainly. It wasn't so much an issue with me because I was only hired as a temporary replacement for Bello so I knew what my situation was. And I was with them for an entire year... twelve or thirteen months to be exact. At the end of it I knew that I was going to go on and do something else. John wasn't quite prepared for what they came up with to do... have him be excluded in this reunion thing, and I think at first it was of course a very difficult thing for him to deal with and to swallow, but he pretty much hasn't really come out and said anything bad about the situation. He just knows that he felt like he had to do what was right for him and he stands behind it. And he's been able to move on from that. He has no ill feelings or harbours any resentment or anything like that. He's totally fine with everything."

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