According to Metalunderground.com, the godfathers of grindcore, Birmingham, UK's Napalm Death, are back in the studio recording new material for what would be their next album. Vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway posted the following message:

As always, when trying to decide when we should enter the studio, we threw a dart at a dartboard and, sadly, for all our sanities' sakes, it landed on a date which was sooner rather than later. It's all working out good with about 10-12 songs complete thus far. It will be intense, naturally, and like always we'll be looking to move things along a notch production-wise and stylistically. Conceptually, it will, generally speaking, be a tale of analyzing life and stripping it back to the point where I'm asking the question: why are we killing ourselves to get ahead and not appreciating the real simplistic, beautiful things around us? If that sounds hippy-ish, I don't care, ha ha.

The new record will be the follow-up to 2006's Smear Campaign. The band expect to release it later this year or in 2009.