William Shatner’s next music album will be “autobiographical”

William Shatner on stage at the Star Trek Las Vegas Convention, 2019

If you’re a fan of William Shatner’s music, then now is a good time to start rejoicing. Star Trek’s first captain is due to release not one but two new albums soon, one of which will be by the end of the summer.

Shatner is currently making the publicity rounds, promoting the upcoming premiere of season two of The UnXplained, which he hosts. The series explores the world’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. In an interview with Den of Geek about the upcoming series, Shatner gave them an update on his music: his blues album is due out soon, and he’s starting to work on another. “I’ve got two albums,” he said. “I’ve got a blues album which will be released by the end of the summer and then we’ll bring the other album out after that.”

Shatner first revealed that he was working on a blues album last year, and just this February, at the height of his now-cancelled world tour, he told Dallas, Texas-based entertainment website Central Track that the album was in post-production. Now that that one is on its way, he’s turned his attention to what he called an “autobiographical album”.

While he wasn’t able to give many details about the autobiographical album, he did say that it would likely be accompanied by a book, and he did describe two tracks. One, called “Monday Night in London” describes the events on his world tour, when he was due to give a performance in London around the same time Prime Minister Boris Johnson started issuing restrictions on public gatherings, due to the spread of COVID-19. The performance went ahead anyway, with good attendance, and was criticized by many fans as irresponsible given the new pandemic restrictions.

The other track on the new album will deal with the natural and mysterious phenomenon Fata Morgana, a type of mirage. Shatner hopes the phenomenon will make it into an episode of The UnXplained, as well.

Once again, Shatner’s blues album is expected out by the end of the summer, with the next album, an autobiographical one, to follow sometime “after that”. As for Shatner’s current project, The UnXplained, you can watch all of season one and the first episode of season two, now out on The History Channel.