GEORGE LYNCH Is 'Not Happy' With The Songs He Has Written For The Next LYNCH MOB Album: 'I Want It To Be A Wall-To-Wall Record Like 'Wicked Sensation' Was'

In a new interview with Cassius Morris, legendary guitarist George Lynch confirmed that he is working on the follow-up to what was billed as LYNCH MOB's ninth and "final" full-length studio record "Dancing With The Devil", which came out in November 2025. Lynch said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I'm in the writing, recording initial ideas process, and it's been a pretty lengthy process, just 'cause I tour a lot as well. So, I get in the studio when I can here, and there's a studio situation here in Taos, New Mexico that I have worked out, where I've got a kind of a home where I can go record. When I was living more in California, I had my own recording studio, so that was much easier. So it's a little more challenging out here to get that done. The other thing that is different out here compared to when I lived in L.A. is that the music out here is beautiful. The kind of music I play is not a part of that in any sense at all. There's no one in this part of the world that listens to or plays that kind of music. So, everything is acoustic guitars, singer-songwriters and almost kind of Appalachian hillbilly kind of style music, and it's beautiful. I mean, but there's a lot of fiddles, and there's a lot of acoustic instruments and great harmonies. And it's wonderful, wonderful music and musicians, but not what I do. And so I don't really fit in here in that sense. So finding resources is difficult. There's no music stores out here. I mean, I have to drive three hours to get to a music store; I have to go to Albuquerque. So there's no resources or musicians that would work with my kind of style of music, so it's challenging for me out here. I mean, we still have a home in Los Angeles, but we've just decided this is where we wanna be, so we're pretty much here. We go there once in a while to visit. But, yeah, I find that being here too forces me to slow down a little bit because I was getting kind of manic and doing too many records for a long time. For a lot of years, I was doing two to three albums a year. It was a lot. I was even getting confused how many records I had [coming out]. And I'd always look at it like a badge of honor, like, 'Oh, I did so many albums.' It's, like, well, it's not a contest, dude. It's not a race. I mean, [Jimi] Hendrix only did three records in his lifetime. And you did three this year. That's dumb. I'm trying to be more like Hendrix."

Asked how many songs he has written for the next LYNCH MOB album so far, George said: "I got 10, but I'm not happy with it, so I have to be honest with myself, 'cause I… For me to lie to myself and go, 'Well, it's good enough. It's just another album,' that's taking the easy road, and I need to be more critical. 'Cause there's nobody out here producing me or looking over my shoulder, and guys that work in my band, they're my friends and I love them, but they're not gonna... I believe, I don't think they would tell me what I need to know, which is these songs are not what they need to... It could be... I know in my mind it could be better. I mean, there are some brilliant moments, and there are some great songs, but I want it to be a wall-to-wall record like 'Wicked Sensation' was back in 1990. I wanna make that record again. I'm worried less now about spending the money or the budget or the time. I'm more concerned with having it be right. And I haven't thought that way in a long time, 'cause usually I'm just like a music factory, just pumping them out. 'Cause on my average record that I would write, I would write and record the basic parts all in one day — sometimes more. Sometimes up to three songs a day, and I would bang out these records very, very quickly, like in a couple of weeks. So that's about as real as you can get, you know what I mean?"

LYNCH MOB's latest release was "The Final Ride" live album, which came out in May 2026 via Frontiers Music Srl.

On "The Final Ride", Lynch is backed by a formidable lineup featuring Gabriel Colón (vocals),Jaron Gulino (bass) and Jimmy D'Anda (drums).

Despite the fact that LYNCH MOB completed "The Final Ride" farewell tour in March 2025, the band has continued playing gigs with a revamped lineup consisting of Lynch, vocalist Andrew Freeman (LAST IN LINE),drummer Brian Tichy (WHITESNAKE, FOREIGNER, OZZY OSBOURNE) and bassist Jaron Gulino.

Tichy was previously a touring member of LYNCH MOB in 2010, 2012–2013, 2015, 2020 and 2025; Gulino was in LYNCH MOB from 2022 to 2025; and Freeman played with LYNCH MOB in 2003, 2010 and 2019.

LYNCH MOB was formed in 1989 after Lynch parted ways with his former band DOKKEN. Their debut release, "Wicked Sensation", was met with critical and fan acclaim and went on to be certified gold in sales by the RIAA. The band would continue on through the years with a cast of talented players joining Lynch throughout their musical journey over the course of several more studio albums.