Protest The Hero hit the studio

Protest The Hero has recently finished writing their second full-length album and will begin recording this weekend with producer Julius "Juice" Butty at Toronto's Silo recording studio. The band expects to wrap up by August 1st with a fall release date planned.

Protest The Hero spent most of the last year on the road, performing every date on the Vans Warped Tour and opening for bands such as Dragonforce, Trivium, and All That Remains among others. The trips were not entirely without incident. The band recently shot their third video from Kezia for the song "The Divine Suicide of K" with director Colin Minihan and expect to debut the video in the coming weeks.

Lyricist and bassist Arif Mirabdolbaghi issued the following statement about the upcoming release:

The new album is a further attempt towards bridging the distance between technicality and musicality. We hope to use organized and creative songwriting to explore, both sonically and thematically, the emotions, ironies and realities of our surroundings. The songs probe the paradoxical nature of everyday life- chiefly that aggressive music is an adequate vessel to convey not only feelings of anger and frustration, but also wonder, pathos and optimism.

The band released their last record Kezia, in 2005. A US release followed in 2006.