Britain’s masters of darkness Anathema have posted following news on their official website:
“Anathema are very pleased to announce they are to support Porcupine Tree throughout Europe in November and December…
“Anathema have decided that – rather than rushing into the studio to finish the album in time for the tour and not being able to work with the producer we would like – it will actually benefit the band and the new album to play the new songs live before recording them…
“We intend to record approximately 85 minutes of music for this album. At least 14 songs. The idea at the moment is to release a double album called simply “Paradigm Shift”. Again this not not confirmed, plans can change.
“A double album will not mean it will be a huge, overbearing, very long album… It may only be two groups of seven songs split over two CD’s in order to be easily digested by the listener. It definitely will not be a self-indulgent album. It definitely is not a concept album.”
In other words, we shouldn’t wait for the follow-up to 2004’s “A Natural Disaster” earlier than 2008…