Birmingham, UK grindcore pioneers Napalm Death recently posted an update on their progress recording their next album. Bassist Shane Embury commented:

Well, today is the first day in the studio laying down drum tracks for our new album. After all the initial tuning and setting up of the drums, we managed to get four drum tracks down which is a great start, but we have another 13 to go. As people may or may not have heard, we are at Parlour studios in Kettering with producer Russ Russell at the helm laying down the drums and then in a few days we will return to Foel studios in Wales for the recording of the guitars, bass and vocals -- finally to return here to Parlour for the mix. So early days yet but we will keep you posted as best we can.

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 on Earache Records.