Alien Ant Farm are back in the studio for the first time since that tour bus crash that left singer Dryden Mitchell with a fractured vertebrae in his lower back. Talking to MTV they revealed they have chose Stone Temple Pilots' Dean and Robert Deleo for production duties – the first time the brothers have donned the producer cap.
"Them never having produced a record was appealing to us because we figured that a great engineer and them combined (would make an amazing team)," Mitchell explained. "It seemed a little bit more exciting not knowing what to expect. Also, anyone can record a record, and we thought they were more capable than some producers out there of getting some good songs out of us and being there for the project and not just overseeing all the work."
The band hope to have the album more or less complete by early Summer ready for an Autumn release: "We've already decided what songs are going to be used. We're just going to work out the kinks and work on the lyrics a little bit more and then just rehearse in the last week so that we can be a little quicker in the studio."