In a recent interview with Dimitris Kontogeorgakos from MetalKaoz.com, MANILLA ROAD's Mark "The Shark" Shelton revealed that the new Manilla Road album is almost ready, plus he revealed some details about the story behind it. An excerpt follows:

Q: So, you have a new album on the making?

A: "Indeed and as matter of fact we only have left one bass track to do and then short of nit-picking the vocal parts. The entire album has been pretty much recorded you know. Josh has just one bass track to do and then it’s just a matter making sure we’re happy with every single thing."

Q: Is there an album-title?

A: "Yeah, but we’re not going to talk about it yet. I will just say that it’s a concept album."

Q: Ok, can you say something about the concept at least?

A: "It’s like a philosophical concept about the beginnings of man’s civilization back in Ancient Mesopotamia and how it relates to the

religions nowadays and stuff like that. You know me, I like to pick on religion every now and a while and I am doing it again. I don’t know, maybe I will become the Bill Maher of music." (laughs)

Q: That would be interesting... (laughs) How many songs are we talking about?

A: "There will be ten songs on the album with a couple of fairly long ones and some short ones of course. It’s all over the board and style-wise it is not as direct as Mysterium was. Actually, at this point I think we are all in agreement that this is better than “Mysterium”. And this is kind of weird because at first we were thinking like “how can we top Mysterium” and now it seems that we have. So, we are really looking forward to releasing it; as I said, there is only one bass track to do."

Read the entire interview at this location.