SEPULTURA's Andreas Kisser has posted Part 5 in his ongoing Studio Diary series, which deals with the recordings for group’s new album, currently being recorded with producer Ross Robinson (SLIPKNOT, LIMP BIZKIT) at his studio in Venice, California.

Says Kisser: "On Friday we woke up very early to prepare ourselves for the photo shoot, we took the clothes we separated a night before plus some other options of shirts and jackets. The location was a big place in downtown Los Angeles, like a huge warehouse with different rooms and amazing choice of walls and backgrounds, a place specific for what we were doing. Melissa Castro was the photographer we chose for the job, she’s a good friend from Brazil that lives in the USA for many years, she knows the band and the music which it helps a lot when we do a job like this.

We spent 5 hours shooting in the different rooms at the warehouse, we tried many things with lights and special effects, I think the photos will come out great just from the little sample we saw at the camera. Very soon we will have the material to choose the best picture for the album and the best pictures for promotion.

After the shoot we went straight back to the studio to continue work on guitars. Every song is like a symphony with many different guitars sounds and moods for specific parts, we are using 5 guitar heads with 2 different cabinets plus around 20 effect pedals that are spread on the floor at the disposal of Mr. Robinson, it’s a lot of fun to record the guitars like that, you don’t know what is coming and every surprise make this album a better album, what a sound!

I have four songs done and some of them with leads, we are doing song by song. After we finish the guitar parts we have a break for some food and when the night comes Derrick starts his vocals. He is doing a great job, the vocals sounds very brutal and with a performance I have never seen from him, really deep and with full meaning when he screams the words, everything is at the limit, extreme energy and power.

We have names for all the songs and I will share some of them here with you all. The first song we recorded vocals for it was Strangiatto which now have the official name of 'The Age Of The Atheist'. This a song I wrote inspired by the hard times we live today and how difficult is to believe in things. So many theories of conspiracies against the official reports that make your head turn with so much confusion, all religions that are pushing each other away like never before, making disagreements instead of unity and the lack of belief we have in ourselves. We have to believe in our strength as human beings and as citizens. We, as people, have the power to change everything and we are loosing this belief, becoming numb and hopeless. We are accepting too much what the media throws every day at our ears and eyes making our brain weaker. The song has the intention to be a wake up call to all of us, to create a better place to live, to at least save the planet.

We continue the guitar and vocal sagas through this week and I’ll keep you all posted with more song titles and eventually the name of the new album, also soon we will show the artwork for the cover, it’s really amazing.

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In Andreas' last studio diary, he revealed: "Dave Lombardo (PHILM), the one and only ex-drummer from SLAYER, was real close to the studio with his kids and his dog enjoying some time at the beach, Ross asked if he would like to come to the studio and jam something on our album and he said YES! We were so excited, we could not believe that one of our great idols was ready to be a part of our new album."

The follow-up to 2011's Kairos - due in October via Nuclear Blast Records - is being co-produced by Steve Evetts, who has worked with Sepultura on 2001's Nation, 2002's Revolusongs and 2003's Roorback.

Kisser remarked about the recordings recently: "We have six songs recorded, is going in a rate of two songs a day and Ross is also giving important suggestions on some arrangements and directions, he is so sensitive and very close to nature, philosophical but real, very real.

We are all together in a very small room playing our hearts out, Ross is jumping and screaming making us explode on the room. All is sweaty and full of energy that you almost can grab it, is amazing. Every time that Ross have an idea he stop everything to try out the changes, 95% of his input we use it, it’s a team effort for the better of the song.

We have 12 songs to record and two bonus tracks (the previously announced covers of DEATH and Brazilian group CHICO SCIENCE E NAÇÃO ZUMBI) as I mentioned before, originally we had 13 songs but once we were here we decided to cut one and focus on the 12. I would like to share too some of the working titles for the songs we have. When we write the music, most of the time we don’t have a name for it so we create some nicknames to help us identify the songs, it can come from the style of the songs or anything else that will make us remind the riffs we are working on. For instance, the style of the music can help like PUXADA (Pulling) that reminds the style of riffing I’m playing on the guitar or PORRADA (Punch), which is the fastest song on the album. Other nicknames are: 'Strangiatto', 'Xisto Riff', 'Fu Riff', 'Levada Eloy', 'Balada', 'Tsunami' and 'The Vatican', which is the actual name for the song but started as a nickname cause we wrote the song the very day and time the Argentinian Cardinal Francis was chosen as the new Pope in Rome. It’s one of the most evil lyrics I ever wrote."