Former Yellowcard drummer Longineu Parsons is now a member of Lostprophets, replacing former drummer and current Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin. In related news, Lostprophets vocalist Ian Watkins recently confirmed that the title of the band's highly-anticipated and much-delayed new album will be It's Not the End of the World but I Can See It from Here. The band has plans to enter the studio in the coming weeks to begin recording the album, which will be self-produced and released through Columbia.
Interesting. I always thought he was a pretty good drummer. Good to see Lostprophets found a replacement pretty quick for Ilan.
i thought they were mainly done with recording? i read somewhere that their lead guitarist (forgot the name) finished tracking in december in order to get back home to his family. anyway, the title song is fucking amazing. i just heard it twice and it's stuck in my ear since then.
Well they were all done with recording but John Feldmann is a terrible producer so they scrapped everything
wouldn't it be the second time they scrapped everything? i mean, im not refering to their recordings in 2007. they had a studio blog kind of thing on myspace and it seemed like everything was about to be finished. drums were recorded und parts of the guitars. that was back in december if i'm recalling correctly.
haha, whatever . let's just hope it finally comes out in june, as they predicted. it's on top of my list for this year .
this is true. although this was one of my most anticipated albums a couple years ago (lol), i'm not really bothered anymore. Albums that take this long don't usually turn out too good.
I'm dying to hear it, every one of their last efforts has been brilliant. I know what you mean though, if an album takes too long, it usually seems to be lacking in something.
lol that's probably the most obvious example. BUT There's also... *coughchinesedemocracycough*, but i haven't even listened to that yet. I think the same week as i was going to listen to it, Steven Wilson's solo album came out. And at the time i remember thinking 'who needs Guns 'N Roses and Axl Rose when you have fucking Steven Wilson'. There's a few more i can think of, but yeah it's a pretty easy concept to understand, where bands that are having trouble getting ideas are the ones that take a long time.
Basically: They started off with John Feldmann and eventually decided that they didn't like the majority of what resulted from their sessions with him. Then they went back to Bob Rock, and I believe they fell out because he pulled a Don Gilmore on them and tried to make them spend ridiculous amounts of time rewriting parts of the album and making it sound really over-polished. Then they decided that they may as well start recording over sometime last year with Stuart as the lead producer. As of yet he's only worked on Attack! Attack!s album, with Mike mixing it. Ian's said that this will be much rawer sounding than their previous work, probably like the A!A! album. Through all of this they have kept the same basic songs, though. It's just been a matter of who they've been working with in the studio.
Appently, For He's A Jolly Good Felon (search on Youtube for a live version) will be released on April 6th. "In a more recent interview with UK magazine Metal Hammer, lead singer Ian Watkins stated that the new album will be called It's Not the End of the World but I Can See it From Here saying that "this represents the album the best, because the album is darker and grimey but in some parts it's still optimistic, and we think that title shows that". He also went on to state that the first single would be "For He's a Jolly Good Felon" and will be released on April 6, with the album due for release in June." But thats just Wikipedia
the time taken to create an album is no indicator of it's quality. there is no reason, that an album which took 5 years to make is worse than an album with just 1 year in the making. it just depends on the quality of the songs. there are enough examples of albums which only took like 1-2 years that are horrible and cd's that took more years, which are freaking awesome.
I hope I'm wrong but I get the feeling that this album will fail. I've been listening to alot of fakesoundofprogress and Start Something recently and I've gotta say that while I think Liberation Transmission is a brilliant album, the other two albums are in a different league of quality...not to mention sound.
I didn't even bother listening to Liberation Transmission. I heard that Rooftops song and was just like 'Why the fuck are lostprophets standing on rooftops screaming their hearts out?' I remember them saying in interviews way back that with that album they got all their pop vibes out of them, and now they were going back to their older sound. I sure hope they stick to what they said. But even if they do fail, since my lostprophets days i found a ton of far more interesting music.