Savatage founder, singer and keyboardist Jon Oliva was interviewed by That Metal Interview where he talked possible new music:
“Ever since [Savatage‘s 2001 album] ‘Poets And Madmen’, I have been writing Savatage material. Me and [guitarists] Al Pitrelli and Chris Caffery, over the last couple of years, have been putting material together and writing stuff together.
“This is the thing: there is no official thing that we’re going to do a Savatage album; there’s nothing official. Because you know what? As soon as I say, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna do a new Savatage album,’ something will happen to f*ck it up. And then I look like a liar. So all I’m gonna say is there are many surprises in the future.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen. We’re not sure. But we’re writers; we write. And we have — dude, just me alone, I have enough songs for three Savatage albums, okay? And so, yeah, we write because we like working together.
”And because of the pandemic and stuff, a lot of the stuff that we’ve been just fiddling around with each other, we’ve done it over the phone and over the Internet: ‘Here, I’ve got this. What do you think?’ ‘Oh, I love it.’ And I’ll send Al something over the phone. He’ll send me something. Caffery will send me something or I’ll send him something. Because you don’t know.
“The world today is different, and I don’t want to say to people, ‘Hey, we’re gonna do a new Savatage album,’ and have something come along to f*ck it all up.
“No one knew that this COVID-19 s*it was gonna happen. And who knows? Yeah, there’s the vaccine now, but they’re already saying, ‘Oh, there’s different strands of it now,’ and, ‘Who knows?’, and this and that and blah blah blah blah.”