Dez Fafara and co recently completed a UK tour and they're on the road across the US. The guitarist reported earlier this month that they're already working on what will be their seventh full-length release, with drummer John Boecklin having written a "bunch of songs" for the project.

Spreitzer tells the Mike James Rock Show: "I was really into Beast - it was really cool, technical, with some of the cooler solos I've done." But he adds: "It's art; sometimes it doesn't come out the way you think it's going to."