Century Media has issued the following update:

"After finishing their highly successful European tour with Suffocation and label mates Warbringer (a tour report/interview with Mitch Harris can now be watched here), British grindcore Legend Napalm Death now has entered the studio to record the highly anticipated follow-up to 2006's "Smear Campaign".

Vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway provides more info:
"As always, when trying to Decide when we should enter the studio, we threw a dart at a dartboard and, sadly, for all our sanities sakes, it landed on a date which was sooner rather than later. It's all working out good with about 10-12 songs complete thus far. It will be Intense, naturally, and like always we'll be looking to move things along a notch production-wise and stylistically. Conceptually, it will, generally speaking, be a tale of analyzing life and stripping it back to the point where I'm asking the question: why are we killing ourselves to get ahead and not appreciating the real simplistic, beautiful things around us. If that sounds hippy-ish, I don't care ha ha. Cheers all!"

Napalm Death will interrupt their studio work only for a few festival shows this summer and will keep you updated on the recording process."