The Bouncing Souls who are busy in the studio recording their new album, have posted an update on the progress and their plans for the upcoming year.

Greetings from Los Angeles, CA, where we'll be living for another couple weeks till we finish tracking the new record. Things are going great here in the studio so far. Drums are done and I'm laying down basslines today, ironically the element of the record I've worked on/thought about the least so far, in fact I'm kinda making it up as I go along in the studio.

Been mostly focusing on lyrics, vocal and guitar melodies, everything. We're all pushing ourselves a little harder this time, cross-examining our songs and holding them to a higher standard, lots of songs writtten and re-written, some not making the record at all. It'll be this way right up till the end of tracking I think. Still writing lots of new lyrics in that small crack of time between recording and sleeping.

This record was essentially concieved and written in Kate's basement in Asbury Park NJ, and somehow the spirit of that old town has possessed it's content, both lyrically and musically. I can't wait for the world to hear this one, it's special for sure, but we'll let it speak for itself.

Keep an ear out for the new record, and then we'll doing the whole Warped Tour so we'll see you all this summer. If the Warped Tour's not your cup of tea, we'll also be back later headlining clubs all over the US and everywhere else in the world so we hope to see you out there somewhere.

The upcoming Epitaph full length is due out June 6th, 2006 and is the follow up to Anchors Aweigh.

In 2005, the long running band released Live on Chunksaah Records as well as, Live at the Glasshouse, their DVD entry in the Show Must Go Off series for Kung Fu.