On September 8th, Canadian rockers Harem Scarem launched a pledge campaign to support the making of their new studio album - their first in six years - and reached their goal in less than 24 hours. They have checked in with the following update:

"So you might have heard that we toppled our Pledge Music goal in mere hours! Thanks to all our fans, we love you! 

The fun's not over yet! Keep visiting this location over next 91 days, continue to pledge and we'll keep you up to date on the album."

Following is Harem Scarem's original pitch for the campaign:

This is our 13th studio album cleverly entitled Thirteen, with a 13-week run on pledge music.

During the 13 week campaign, every week we’ll be putting up a new video with tons of studio updates and behind-the-scenes footage. We’ll take you through the process of recording guitars and vocals and give you a run down of some of the equipment we use. You’re going to be there for the recording of all the key parts of the record as well as the mixing process. It’s going to be super cool – we’ve never done anything like this before so we’re very excited.

So why are we doing this? Well, basically we were out on tour last year and we ran into and reconnected with all of our fans and were actually very pleasantly surprised about the level of interest in the band. It’s been six years since our last studio album and we’re feeling rejuvenate and couldn’t be more excited about the new tunes!

We’re about to start recording now and we’re going to bring you inside and show you how we do it.

To get started, week #2 is going to be a question-and-answer with us. So leave your questions in the comments section and will be a recording video answers to the ones we pick and we’ll see you next week!"

For information and updates on Harem Scarem go to their official Facebook page here.