Ed Kowalczyk on new stuff Options

[SecretInsomnia]

Today in the Dutch edition of the newspaper 'Metro' there was an article on the premiere of the Live DVD in Amsterdam, yesterday.

The article end with:

"...Live will play seven times in Holland for the Night of the Proms. Frontman Ed Kowalczyk said that the band is busy working on new material, dat will sound more solid/strong than their recent stuff."

whoohooe sounds like they broke with the SFBM-style for good

Also Chad T wrote, after mentioning the 2 new songs, 'there is more to come' on his blog, very recently.

Full article: http://rapidshare.com/files/160346799/livemetropdf.pdf.html

(but it is in Dutch, and the rest of the text says nothing new)

[SecretInsomnia]

well... Dangum's post in the other thread confirmed this again:

Ed says they're going back into the studio in the Spring. Purifier and Forever is the direction they're going.

so... I guess at the end of 2009 we can expect new songs. Or maybe earlier... remember that only 2 weeks after Forever was recorded, we were able to hear it!!!

What do you all think of this step the band takes? I didn't hear Purifier yet, but everyone seems to like it and says it rocks and is one of the best since TDTH. So...
Imagine a full album (although it can turn out as a EP as well) with songs like Forever and Purifier. I think that would work perfect. It would be good commercially, but will also fucking please all the fans! A good combination, if you ask me. At the other hand, if half of the songs on the new album is gonna be like Forever, half of all songs will contain no guitar...
But I really hope the 2 new songs is an indication they are gonna work together again.