Lostprophets, who have been hard at work on the follow-up to 2006's number one album, Liberation Transmission, for what seems like aeons, say their as yet untitled fourth studio album will finally be released next January or February.
After the band's single, Rooftops, was used in a video montage on WWE's SmackDown program earlier this month, frontman Ian Watkins and guitarist Mike Lewis were interviewed by WWE superstar Jeff Hardy for wwe.com.
Speaking to Hardy, Watkins said:
"We're finishing up the record now with Bob [Rock, legendary Metalica producer] again. I think it'll be out in late January or early February of next year."
When asked what direction the new material is taking, Watkins said the Prophets' new album will be "much harder."
"When we first started we were a lot harder," continues Watkins. "We're still melodic, but with a metal edge. On the last record, we purposely put a lot of pop mentality into it. Whereas on this one, we kept the tunefulness and the anthemic hooks, but we kind of put the metal back, as well."