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Chad Smith has confirmed Red Hot Chili Peppers<\/a> will begin writing their new album in September.<\/p>\n It will be the first body of work from the Red Hot Chili Peppers since 2022, a year which saw them release two albums, Unlimited Love and The Return of the Dream Canteen.<\/p>\n Since then, the band have kept busy with their own individual projects, including Flea releasing his debut solo album, Honora<\/a>, earlier this year.<\/p>\n For his part, Smith performed at Back to the Beginning last year to celebrate the life and career of Ozzy Osbourne, as well as contributing to the new Rolling Stones album, Foreign Tongues<\/a>, which arrived on July 10th.<\/p>\n However, now he\u2019s got his eyes firmly set on reuniting with Anthony Kiedis, Flea and John Frusciante to get to work on a new Red Hot Chili Peppers album.<\/p>\n In a recent interview on the Detroit Tigers channel on YouTube, Smith revealed, \u201cWe write music, we have some ideas floating around, but when we write together, which we are starting and writing in September, we\u2019ll write for six, eight months, and that\u2019ll be the music we make for that record.\u201d<\/p>\n He elaborated, \u201cWe don\u2019t have song ideas from two years ago, or \u2018that riff that we never finished\u2019, everything is who we are at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n Smith added of their philosophy, \u201cThat\u2019s how we make our records, and that\u2019s sort of the reason why it\u2019s fresh for us because it\u2019s who we are as a band and as people for that period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier in the same interview, Smith said of their longevity and how they have managed to keep going for so long, \u201cWe still do it because we love it, we still enjoy playing with each other, we feel like we have new things to say and new music to come up with.\u201d<\/p>\n The drummer also added that \u201cwe make an effort to challenge ourselves\u201d, which has kept the project fresh for all these years.<\/p>\n However, he did concede that if one of the band decided they \u201cdon\u2019t have the fire anymore\u201d then Red Hot Chili Peppers \u201cwould stop\u201d. Thankfully, he doesn\u2019t see that happening anytime soon.<\/p>\n
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