After more than five decades of friendship, musical exchange and separate careers that helped redefine what the electric guitar could do, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have finally made a record together.
The Sea of Emotion, the first studio album from SatchVai, will be released November 6, 2026 via earMUSIC. The announcement arrives alongside the release of “Mayhem,” the album’s blistering new single, out today.
The story began in 1973, when 13-year-old Steve Vai began taking guitar lessons from his 17-year-old teacher, Joe Satriani, in Long Island. Neither could have known where that shared obsession with the guitar would lead.
More than 50 years later, after establishing themselves as solo artists and sharing stages around the world through the legendary G3 tours, they have brought their musical histories together on one album.
The album brings together two musicians who have spent decades developing unmistakable individual voices, while giving each the freedom to push the other somewhere new. Producer and keyboardist Eric Caudieux helped keep the process honest, while a formidable group of longtime collaborators supplied the rhythm section, including drummers Gregg Bissonette, Jeremy Colson, Kenny Aronoff, Matt Chamberlain and Mike Mangini, and bassists Billy Sheehan, Bryan Beller, Philip Bynoe, Matt Bissonette, Marco Mendoza and Henrik Linder.
THE SEA OF EMOTION – TRACKLIST:
1. Mayhem (3:39)
2. Bronco Freight Train (5:07)
3. Dancing (3:40)
4. The Feeling I Know (5:57)
5. Zoot Suit Riot (4:36)
6. Old Sins Have Long Shadows (4:43)
7. I Wanna Play My Guitar (4:16)
8. The Sea Of Emotion Pt. 1 (5:49)
9. The Sea Of Emotion Pt. 2 (5:20)
10. The Sea Of Emotion Pt. 3 / Reflections On A Year And A Half (6:39)