ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY's Erik Larson has issued the following BIRDS OF PREY update:

"Well, as of yesterday, 8/25/08, all the rhythm tracks are done for album three y'all. Being as almost all of us in Birds Of Prey are in touring bands, we usually have a small pocket or window in which to track these things. Fortunately there was a slight time table involved. By that i mean, Dave (Witte - MUNICIPAL WASTE, BURNT BY THE SUN, DISCORDANCE AXIS) was stoked to do another record and said so in May. I called Bo (Leslie - THE LAST VAN ZANT) and we set up a weekend to write the record in June. I drove down and we drank and drank and drank some more, then wrote the record in five hours.

Tapes went to Dave, Summer (Welch - BARONESS) and Ben (Hogg - BEATEN BACK TO PURE). I went on tour driving Dave's band Municipal Waste, around the country as they opened for AT THE GATES (yea, it was bad ass), and we had at least one time where we listened together to the demo and talked ideas. Dave spent most of that tour on a bench in my van listening to the demo between bouts of Starbucks induced dream farts. We got home, best friends day erupted here in town and brought Bo and Summer up to Richmond, VA.

Last Monday, we headed down to Sniper Studio and Dave finished his tracks in one day. Bad ass mofo. Next day, Summer finished his tracks in one day, bad ass mofo. Next day Bo finished his rythmn tracks, bad ass mofo. And the following day I did mine, I'm just robotic like that. So where we are now is Bo has to come back up to NC to track solos and Ben needs to lay down the best thing he will ever do... the Birds Of Prey concept album. Not joking, it's a concept album, one solid story. Summer and I will be on tour most of the fall and Dave will be in and out of town as Ben blows minds all over Tidewater, dropping knowledge and Bo enjoys his fancy new soul crushing hvac between sweeping blues-peggios. We figure this thing will be in the can in a month or so. Concept records take time y'all, time I say! Anyway, Dave played really fuckin' fast. So expect this record to be a hell of a ride, as well as a few twists, I told you it was a concept album.

Erik/B.O.P."