In a new interview with Rob Chapman‘s “Lo-Fi Podcast”, drummer Stix Zadinia of California glam metal band STEEL PANTHER confirmed that he and his bandmates have entered Dave Grohl‘s Studio 606 with longtime producer Jay Ruston to begin recording their first new music since 2023’s “On The Prowl“ album. Asked when fans can expect the effort to see the light of day, Stix said: “We don’t have a release date.” He then explained: “We manage our band. We are the merch company. We are the record company. We’re maybe one of the biggest DIY bands — except for METALLICA. But we don’t have a label. And we have a booking agent, but we do it ourselves. So we are not on any sort of label timetable. And so what we decided was, ‘Look, we have the time now. Let’s go track four songs.’ We will probably go back and do another four, and whether we do another four or not and do a full-length release, I’m not sure. I don’t know if we’re gonna drip singles out like people are doing now. I don’t know. I don’t know if we’re gonna do an EP. So the future for us of how to get this out and when to get it out, we’re a little uncertain, but if I had to guess, I would say it will be top of ’26. Maybe a single will come out before then, for Christmas. But we’re gonna go back in and track four to eight more songs over the next few months.”

Stix added: “This process is different, ’cause usually we go in, we go, ‘Okay, here’s the 14 songs. Let’s go. Here’s the studio time. Boom.’ And we go do it. This is a little bit different, and it’s a little more freeing because we can really put our energy into a smaller amount of songs so you can spend more energy per song.”

Zadinia also talked about the experience of recording at Studio 606, saying: “That board, that’s the infamous Sound City Neve board, complete with Paul McCartney‘s signature on it. And so being in that room, I guess Dave Grohl built that studio 20 years ago — it’s 20 years old now — he built it for rock. Honestly, dude, it’s probably the best rock room in L.A. And I’ve been to Abbey Road and the BBC studios, and I’ve been to those kinds of places, and I would say, pound for pound, if you’re gonna do rock and roll drums and guitars and basses, 606 is — you can make an argument for it being in the best room in the world.”