According to Classic Rock magazine, British rockers THE DARKNESS will enter the studio in August or September to begin recording the follow-up to 2012's "Hot Cakes" for an early 2015 release. "We've been writing it on a remote island just off the coast of Ireland," THE DARKNESS frontman Justin Hawkins says. "It's been a really inspirational place to work and a real luxury to be able to do that. It's a great place to write songs. There's really nothing to do but rock out and enjoy the scenery and the Atlantic. We have loads of super-strong material.""We've put a lot of work into the pre-production on this one," adds THE DARKNESS guitarist Dan Hawkins. "There's an album pretty much already recorded, but in demo form. We're even talking about recording it in Kerry [Ireland] too. I can't tell you what sort of effect the place has had on us. It's just triggered some of these medieval, LED ZEP-style riffs that we've been missing for a while."Regarding what fans can expect to hear on the forthcoming CD, Dan says: "I was reading something about [LED ZEPPELIN] and Jimmy Page was talking about how bands went out to make very eclectic albums in the '60s and '70s. Whereas these days bands tend to think, 'What would our fan base expect us to do?' and stay within those parameters. And I think we've been guilty of that with the last record. So this one is more like an experimentation in rock. It's similar to what we did on the first record [2003's 'Permission To Land'], where there was every different type of rock song on there."He continues: "Change is good and we are changing massively on this next record, sonically and in appearance. Everything is pretty much going out of the window."THE DARKNESS last year released a brand new track, "The Horn", with a special edition of their third album "Hot Cakes".THE DARKNESS' most recent U.K. tour celebrated the 10th anniversary of the band's triple-platinum debut album "Permission To Land", which featured the classics "Get Your Hands Off My Woman" and "I Believe In a Thing Called Love" and garnered the band 3 Brit Awards.
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