Aside from a short-lived reunion at Wacken Open Air in 2015, Savatage has been mostly inactive since 2002, when the band went on hiatus following the tour cycle for "Poets and Madmen". After some speculation that they were reuniting in 2021 to record a new album, Oliva confirmed in an interview with "80's Glam Metalcast" in March of that year that he and his Savatage bandmates Chris Caffery and Al Pitrelli had been working on new material together, and added that he would "love" to reform the band.