TODIEFOR Frontman Checks In From The Studio

Finnish gothic metallers TO/DIE/FOR entered the studio on August 6 to begin recording their sixth album, tentatively due in early 2010. Vocalist Jape Peratalo writes on the band's MySpace page, "We have 11 songs at the moment. Personally I've never felt this relaxed at the studio. Finally we have songs with that 'thing and feeling' we have always dreamt about.

"We had some riffs and some melodies and then we just sat together. We had guitars and keyboards and we composed these 11 songs right there at the studio. Some songs are already named like 'Angelica' and 'End In Tears'.

"We will continue recordings at Tonmi's [Lillman; TO/DIE/FOR drummer] place after all drum tracks have been edited etc. Next comes keyboards and programming stuff. After that, we need a couple of days here at the D studio for bass and guitar.

"By the way, there is going to be only one guitarist in the new [TO/DIE/FOR] lineup! And we still do not know who will he be, but surely he must be very unique!"

Currently unsigned, TO/DIE/FOR plans to release its next album through the band's own company. Peratalo explained, "We are not gonna look for any record label for releasing this album! All we need is find right labels which we could sign license deals with. Now it seems that licenses for Russian, Japan and Finland are already in our hands. And I am looking for new license deals all the time. So... things will happen mainly through our own company."

TO/DIE/FOR's fifth album, "Wounds Wide Open", was released in Finland in October 2006. The follow-up to 2005's "IV" was recorded by Samu Oittinen at Fantom Studios and by Jari-Jukka Nippala at Sonic Image, and was mixed at Sweden's Abyss Studios by Peter Tägtgren (DIMMU BORGIR, CELTIC FROST).