In a new interview with The Mistress Carrie Podcast, EXTREME guitarist Nuno Bettencourt confirmed that the band has completed work on its seventh studio album.

The upcoming effort will be the follow-up to “Six”, which was released in June 2023 via earMUSIC.

Bettencourt told  podcast host “Mistress Carrie” Sarao: “I’ve been in a creative black hole over the last — I don’t know — year or so wrapping up an EXTREME album. We’ve got about 18, 20 new tunes, and dare I say it’s the greatest album we’ve ever done — like every artist says.”

Regarding a possible release date for the new EXTREME LP, Nuno said: “What we’re trying to do is we’re hoping to drop the album — it probably has to be towards the end of the year, but we’re hoping to do a single per run, like maybe for the summer, for the DEF LEPPARD (European) tour, maybe in June drop our first single, maybe for the MÖTLEY (CRÜE U.S. tour) drop a second single, just to get things excited.”

As for Bettencourt‘s expectations for the upcoming EXTREME album, the guitarist said: “It’s time for the fucking Super Bowl for us for real, as a band. And this album — I told the other guys, ‘This album is everything for us. It’s everything. This is our career. The whole thing is this next fucking album.’ So we have an opportunity to do something for ourselves — not for anybody else, for ourselves — and raise that fucking bar for ourselves and let everybody know that we are a rock band and let everybody know that we’ve always been all in, that we’ve been passionate, that we fucking leave it always on stage, that we don’t take anything for granted, we don’t take our fans for granted and we don’t take rock and roll for granted… So I told the guys, I said, ‘This album has to dwarf what we did.'”

He continued: “I’m telling you right now — I never get excited about anything, I don’t brag about anything, I don’t talk about stuff, but I cannot wait to play you. Honestly, I think we did something on this album that is so much better than the last album. And what I mean by that is that we cracked the fucking code. It only took 40 years, but we cracked the code. And what I mean by that is I said to myself, ‘You know what? If I could go back in time to EXTREME playing clubs before they had a record deal and I said, ‘Who are they? What do they play? What do they do? What separates them from everybody else? What’s their differentiator?’ Like, oh, they’ve got a funk element to it. They always had this funkiness, rock funk. People used to call this ‘funky metal’ back in the day. But funky is happy. So what’s the heavy version of that? If I went back to ’86 — it was right before we got a deal, in ’86, ’87 — and now it’s 2026, what is that version, the back-to-the-future version but the modern bitchslap, heavy, punch-somebody-in-the-fucking-balls funk version of EXTREME, the authentic EXTREME that you’ve heard nobody else do it this way, that’s what we’re doing on this new album.”

Nuno added: “We are so excited, like little giddy children that wrote some music. And not like, ‘Man, you watch what we’re gonna do.’ I don’t give a fuck if nobody likes it. I’m just telling you that it’s the best thing that we can do that might be one of the best things we’ve ever done, I think, because of the passion and because of where we are in our lives going, like, who the fuck gets a chance, a second chance to have a second go-around, with all the shit that I’ve been blessed with over the last three years and the band’s been blessed with over the last three years, just for doing it for the love of it.”