Told you about this ‘supergroup’ months back. Tesla bassist and founding member Brian Wheat has teamed up with original Tesla guitarist Tommy Skeoch to form a new band called Terminal, with former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes and original Saliva singer Josey Scott.
The project started quietly but organically, sparked by a chance meeting aboard the Monsters Of Rock Cruise in 2022. Holmes and Wheat connected almost immediately, bonding over shared experiences, music, and life on the road. Geography helped too. Holmes lives in southern France. Wheat splits time between Italy, Florida, and New York.
Conversations turned into visits, visits turned into ideas, and ideas turned into songs.
Wheat had already been considering a new project and felt Holmes’ story, particularly after watching the guitarist’s Mean Man documentary, was unfinished business. One honest conversation sealed it. Wheat told Holmes he would play in a band with him. From there, the pieces started falling into place.
The next call went to Tommy Skeoch, with whom Wheat had recently reconnected after years of distance following Skeoch’s turbulent exit from Tesla. Wheat believed Skeoch’s melodic instincts and Holmes’ heavier edge would be combustible together.
Skeoch agreed instantly.
Finding the right singer was the final step. Josey Scott came to mind not just for his voice, but for his temperament and generational bridge between the players. Early demo sketches confirmed it. Scott could hear himself in the songs, and Terminal officially had its lineup.
Songwriting is now underway. Holmes, Skeoch, and Wheat recently spent nearly a week together writing material, juggling schedules between tours and other projects. Skeoch describes the sound as heavy, melodic, and still evolving. Wheat agrees, saying the band isn’t chasing a predefined style.
The Terminal sound, he says, will simply be the result of who they are. Wheat’s melodic, Beatles-influenced sensibility. Skeoch’s bite. Holmes’ metal foundation. Scott’s voice tying it together.
When Wheat announced Terminal earlier this year, he made one thing clear. This is not a replacement for Tesla. It’s a parallel path. Another chapter.
In July, Wheat and Skeoch shared a stage for the first time in nearly 20 years, playing Tesla classics together in New York.
Let’s call that building momentum.
Terminal is moving forward. Songs are being written. The past is acknowledged, not avoided. And for these four musicians, the next move is about chemistry, not closure.
Pretty rowdy ‘supergroup’. Which musicians would make your band?
