Power Trip are in no hurry to get back into the studio it would seem. The Texan crossover group officially reunited last year with vocalist Seth Gilmore (Skourge/Fugitive) fronting the band in place of the late Riley Gale. In a new interview with Chaoszine, guitarist/vocalist Blake Ibanez confirmed that the band are more focused on performing live and reconnecting with each other in that capacity than adding to their discography. Ibanez stated of that:
“After everything happened in 2020, we were looking for something to do. Me and [drummer Chris] Ulsh, we finished up some music we were writing, the music we had written for the Power Trip album. We went and recorded a bunch of stuff and just kind of sat on it and we were, like, ‘Maybe someone will sing on this one day.’ And it ultimately didn’t really happen. But after that sort of got shelved, that’s when all this stuff kind of happened with Seth and us playing again.”
He continued:
“Right now, we’re just enjoying being back on stage together. We played five or six shows. Now we’re out here [on a European tour] with Pantera, which we didn’t expect to tour or to get invited to do anything like this. So to be able to be afforded an opportunity like this after not even being able to step on stage for years is amazing. We’re very fortunate. So, we’re just trying to enjoy being back together and playing again. And who knows? I mean, I think at some point obviously we’ll wanna go back to all that stuff and maybe consider doing something with it. But I think right now, we’ve just been kind of approaching every step like, ‘How does this feel? How does this feel?’ And so far everything’s been good.
Everything that we’ve done has been step by step and not forced. So, we took four years, basically, to decide if we wanted to play again and until the right situation arose, we didn’t. And we wouldn’t have done it if it wasn’t right or if it didn’t feel right or if it wasn’t done the right way in our eyes. So, we’re gonna apply that to everything we do. So if we decide to work on new music and it sounds really good and it works and it feels like Power Trip and all that, then maybe we’ll do that.
But we just wanna do things the right way and do it our way. And I have confidence that we’ll make all the those decisions the right way. Again, we’re not trying to jump into another phase right now. We’re trying to play all the songs that we wrote in the past and honor what we did, obviously, with Riley, and continue to play the songs. We missed playing those songs.
They’re great. And we love what he did and everything that we did in that that whole era. So we’re not running away from that anytime soon. We’re just trying to enjoy playing the songs again and thinking about all the memories. When we’re together now, we just talk about tours we did, things we did, funny memories and times we had together. And we could do that for a long time.”
With Pantera:
01/31 Ljubljana, SLO – Arena Stozice
02/01 Ostrava, CZE – Ostravar Arena
02/03 Budapest, HUN – Budapest Arena
02/04 Krakow, POL – Tauron Arena
02/06 Hamburg, GER – Sporthalle
02/07 Berlin, GER – Max-Schmeling-Halle
02/09 Dusseldorf, GER – Mitsubishi Electric Halle
02/10 Brussels, BEL – Forest National
02/13 Bologna, ITA – Unipol Arena
02/13 Zurich, SWI – Hallenstadion
02/15 Paris, FRA – Adidas Arena
02/18 Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
02/19 Leeds, UK – First Direct Arena
02/21 Dublin, IRE – 3Arena
02/23 Birmingham, UK – Resorts World Arena
02/25 London, UK – OVO Arena Wembley
Power Trip:
01/25 Aarhus, DEN – Voxhall
01/29 Nuremberg, GER – Z-Bau
01/30 Munich, GER – Strom
02/05 Prague, CZE – Rock Cafe
02/14 Solothurn, SWI – Kofmehl
02/17 Norwich, UK – Waterfront
02/24 Bristol, UK – Marble Factory
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