IMPIOUS Begins Recording New Album

Swedish death/thrashers IMPIOUS have issued the following update:

"We've finally started to record our new album! Things are going really good right now. Usually we get all kinds of problems when we record — anything from broken soundboards to ghost attacks are regular to us. But this time everything's been great so far. But you never know.

"We've been working on our new songs for a pretty long time and now we are very happy with how they all sound. We can't wait for this album to be done.

"The drum tracks are all done and we've started working on the guitars. We are working on 12 songs, but every song might not end up on the album. We might save a song or two for b-sides or for other releases."

IMPIOUS's new CD is being recorded at guitarist Valle Adzic's Studio Deadline. The band previously stated, "This is the first album ever we'll produce and engineer by ourselves and we're pretty stoked about delivering this baby without any other people involved. This album will truly represent what the fuck IMPIOUS is all about!"

The group added, ""We would also like to tell you that we've hired the awesome and wickedly talented artist Marcello Vasco to create one of the most sinister and malignant-looking album covers ever! Marcello is extremely talented and we're absolutely positive that everyone will crap their pants when they see what Marcello has created for us!

"We have some good ideas to what we want to call the album. We surely want it to represent the dark and merciless vibe of our new songs and we also need the album cover to fit with it as well. We have some pretty wicked ideas, but we won't reveal any of it quite yet."

The band's latest CD, entitled "Holy Murder Masquerade", was released in January 2007 via Metal Blade Records.

Video footage of IMPIOUS performing the song "Purified By Fire" at New England Hardcore and Metal Festival can be viewed below.