Jason Newsted On Going Metallic Again

Official Announcement | Published: May 27, 2026 4:48 PM EDT

(MS) Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted joined Mark Strigl on SiriusXM's Ozzy's Boneyard (Channel 38) yesterday, May 26, for an in-depth conversation covering everything from his upcoming tour plans to his legendary years with Metallica and beyond.

The detailed interview featured discussion about Jason Newsted and the Chophouse Band's upcoming run with Blackberry Smoke, reflections on the making of Metallica's "The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited" in 1986 and the "Load" album in 1996, stories involving Staind's Mike Mushok and Faith No More's Jim Martin, and Newsted's thoughts on how heavy music fits into the broader definition of Americana.

Newsted also revealed that additional material has already been written for his heavy project, Newsted. When asked by Mark Strigl if he could ever see himself doing a straight-ahead metal project again, Newsted responded:

"I never say never on any of that. There's already a complete second Newsted album composed. I have all that thing and half of another one you know, I will say it's important for people to know, anybody that gives a sh*t anymore or the thing that you know people that I've had acquaintance or friendship with for all the decades that want to come and say hello that's wonderful too because I do miss seeing the people, but I'm leaning into the heavy on this run with Blackberry and the term Americana, ok if we're gonna go there, I still think that the Chophouse Band would be almost the ultimate description of that definition as it applies to music, we've had the term Americana and our lexicon for a long f***ing time, a century or more. I don't really even know how long but you know, you think about whatever it happens to be, the farmer in the painting with a pitchfork or whatever Americana is, this is right, that type of thing. In music, it's music that came from America. That's what it means. In the beginning it was more folk leaning and bluegrass leaning. That type of stuff is Americana but as it goes, also rock, southern rock country rock and American Metal - it's still American. I was a member of the biggest American metal band of all time and that will ever be, you know. It still classifies for Americana in my book."

The full interview is now available on demand in the SiriusXM app here.