Swedish metallers ENTOMBED have set "Serpent Saints"
as the title of their new album, due on June 6, 2006
via Threeman Recordings. The upcoming CD will be the
group's first without the contributions of guitarist
Uffe Cederlund, who left the band in September.
Speaking to Sweden's Close-Up magazine, ENTOMBED
guitarist Alex Hellid had the following to say about
the upcoming album, "Over the years we've built
something, a name that is much bigger than its
individual parts. Living up to that name is something
we take very seriously. Of course, we feel an enormous
pressure, albeit in a positive way, and a great
obligation to maintain [the name] as well as live up
to our own and other people's high expectations that
come along with putting an ENTOMBED logo on an album."
ENTOMBED have no plans on replacing Cederlund and will
continue as a four-piece, with Hellid as the sole
guitarist. However, there is a possibility that former
ENTOMBED drummer and current THE HELLACOPTERS frontman
Nicke Andersson will contribute to the next album.
"I've just talked loosely with Alex and Peter
[Stjärnwind, drummer] about it," Andersson told
Close-Up. "I haven't really said anything, but they've
basically asked me if I would consider being involved
in one way or the other. Whether or not that's because
Uffe has quit, I have no idea. . . .It's really down
to having the time to do it. There are another
thousand ideas I want to see through. But if it's
possible, it would be a blast to do something [with
ENTOMBED]."
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