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Lostprophets preparing for fifth album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 24 September 2010
Lostprophets have revealed that they are gearing up to begin work on songs for their fifth album, the follow-up to this year’s ‘The Betrayed’. That album was a fraught affair, which saw the band scrap initial recordings and sack two producers along the way, before self-producing the finished product. As a result, they’re hoping for a smoother ride this time around.
Bassist Stuart Richardson told Metal Hammer: “We’re starting writing pretty soon. We’re doing a no-pressure writing session in the next few weeks. Just to see what comes of it. We’re not going in to write a single we’re just going in to have some fun, see what comes out of it”.
Mike Lewis, the band’s guitarist, added: “When you know you have two months to write an album you stay in your comfort zone a bit, whereas if you just go in and write music for fun that almost takes us back to when we wrote [debut album] ‘The Fake Sound Of Progress'”.
Lewis also hinted that the next album may see the band modify their sound: “We’ve been a band for ten years. We’ve got our four albums, almost book-ended with the heavier records. That chapter’s closed. This next time we’re wondering whether we should self-produce again. After ‘The Betrayed’ we thought it sounded amazing, but we needed to go with someone else to find out we needed to do it ourselves”.
Which is interesting stuff and all, but what about the photograph that appeared on Perez Hilton’s Unrated Perez blog earlier this month, which appears to show the band’s vocalist Ian Watkins giving another man a blowjob? That’s what you really want to know about, right?
Quizzed about the photograph by Metal Hammer, Watkins claimed to have created the image himself in Photoshop. He said: “I do have a first in Graphic Design, which is essentially Photoshop… that’s all I’m saying. I was happy with it. And ultimately if you trace everything back to the source, it’s gotta come from somewhere hasn’t it? I got my shit locked down like a master, so nothing’s getting leaked. It worked better than I ever could have imagined and the fact that Perez picked it up and stuff is amazing”.
