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Stone Gods To Rise Out Of The Darkness With New Album Next Year
Monday December 10, 2007 @ 07:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
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After months of speculation and delays, the former members of British rock band The Darkness have finally settled on a new band name: Stone Gods.
The new outfit, who feature three members of The Darkness and lead singer Richie Edwards, were supporting Thin Lizzy on a British tour this month but had to pull out of some dates after Edwards became ill and was ordered to rest.
“All I do know is that it feels as though Stone Gods has arrived and no fucker is ever going to be able to ignore us,” bassist Toby Macfarlaine wrote in a recent blog post on the band’s MySpace page. “For better or worse, people, we’re in this together until the end. It’s started. See you at the gates of hell!”
The group played their first show in late November and seemed pleased with the response.
“The first show at Leicester was a very special moment, we’ve been holed up in the studio for the best part of a year writing and recording our album and we were chomping at the bit to get out and play live,” Edwards wrote on his MySpace page. “The show was awesome and there was much hugging and high fiving in the dressing room afterwards.”
The still-untitled album is being recorded at Dan Hawkins’ home studio and is being co-produced by Hawkins and Nick Brine. It should be out next summer, but “Burn The Witch” can already be previewed on the Stone Gods MySpace page. No other song titles have been revealed, but a limited-edition Burn The Witch EP is expected in January.
“If your favourite song of all time was ‘Friday Night’ then you’ll hear ‘Burn The Witch’ and you probably won’t like it,” Dan Hawkins wrote on the band’s official site. “But that’s cool.
“In a way, that’s exactly what we want! We don’t want people shouting for Darkness songs.”
Jason MacNeil
