Zak Stevens Confirms Savatage Is Ready To Come Back With New Album

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Savatage returned from their second hiatus after nearly ten years in 2023 and began working on a new album. Zak Stevens revealed their progress in the album’s production during a recent interview with Metal Pilgrim.

“We have been working on music. We’ve been recording stuff for a while now,” the vocalist shared. “I mean, I’ve got about probably eight or nine songs that I’ve been working on with Jon [Oliva]. And he keeps writing more, like Chris [Caffery] said. So, it’s just an ongoing process.”

“Stuff is continuing to beat the old stuff. So, Jon goes, ‘Oh, you like that? Well, here.’ And then something winds up beating something else, and then what you thought was gonna be the 10 songs on the record, now half of them have already gone to a new level. So we’ve got a lot of music. So it’s just gonna be a matter of time to when we can record it.”

The upcoming album, titled ‘Curtain Call,’ will be Savatage’s first studio release since 2001’s ‘Poets and Madmen.’ The lineup for the album will be the same with Jon Oliva, Chris Caffery, Johnny Lee Middleton, Zak Stevens, and Jeff Plate, who will also go on a new tour next year.

The band’s first show in nearly ten years will be at the Monsters of Rock festival in Brazil on April 19, 2025. After that, they will head to Europe for their first headlining performances in two decades. Jon Oliva will not be able to join his bandmates on the road due to his diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and Ménière’s disease.