KYUSS LIVES!, the project featuring three-quarters of KYUSS - the influential American stoner rock/Metal band, originally from Palm Desert, California - will record a new studio album following its upcoming tour. The group features bassist Nick Olivieri, drummer Brant Bjork and singer John Garcia along with guitarist Bruno Fevery, who most recently played with Garcia in the GARCIA PLAYS KYUSS project.

Speaking to U.K.'s Rock Sound magazine, Garcia said, "Our rehearsals are going so well that we're thinking of doing another record... Brant, Nick and myself have collectively agreed that once everything is done live and we're done with our solo projects, we're going to do another record."

Regarding why KYUSS guitarist and founding member Josh Homme is not involved in the reunion, Garcia told Rock Sound, "I have nothing bad to say about Josh - he's extremely intelligent, very smart, a great guitar player, great songwriter, a great vocalist - he is a bad-ass, there is no question, and I love him dearly but he is busy with his own thing. He has THEM CROOKED VULTURES, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, he's a father, a businessman and even if we asked him to do it, I don't think he'd say yes, so I don't want to set myself up for a big fat no which is 99.9 percent what he would say."

KYUSS LIVES! will embark on Australian tour next May. A European tour will take place in March/April.

Source: www.BlabberMouth.Net