San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB have issued the following update from bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel:

"Hey what's up everyone?

Thought I'd come drop some news for everyone to chew on while we create this monster of an album. Right now things are coming along great!

After signing with Stand & Deliver Records, we decided to take a break from the recording process to finish writing a few more songs we hadn't completely finished writing. Which in turn has given us more time to work out parts on the other 9 songs that we had already started recording before signing our deal.

Sooooo, now that the ink has dried and we have found ourselves with a proper budget to record the album the way it should be we have decided to get Paul back in the studio with his fresh new DDrum kit and smash the songs out again, basically starting from scratch with a new level of aggression and comfort knowing that he has more than 2 days to track 13 songs... Having said that recording has officially started ....AGAIN!!

Paul re-entered Trident Studios at the end of April and tracked all of his drums over again, with new shit and a new frame of mind, which ultimately helped out tons as he completely crushed his other tracks with pure confidence and fury!!

Snake and Glenny have been hard at work tracking guitars this last few weeks. Snake has also been engineering The Scars Between Us, this is a first for Skinlab but it's turning out great! He's been swamped in all the tracking making sure everything this is perfect.... Gotta give props out to Snake for his pure dedcation and petience in making sure this album is absolutly crushing.

Patience is definitely the key to making a great album and so far most of our time has been spent on detail and making sure tunings are perfect, to be on track... we'll kinda.

Since recording started we were busting ass to make our deadline of May 10th to finish everything.. but, we've decided that this album is much to important to rush just to get it out a few weeks earlier, so we have decided to push the release date back. No offcial date yet.. just be ready for a complete bruiser of an albm before the end of the summer!!

Tours are being set up as we speak, to kick things off we are super stoked to announce that we will be heading down to South America with Ill Nino and Skin Culture on the Project Independence tour in June. This is Skinlab's first time playing in South America, we're coming ready to fuck some shit up! It's been a long wait for our fans in South America we'll be sure to give them a show to remember!

After the Project Independence Tour is over we will be heading back to states to play the Rockstar Mayhem Festival on July 10th in Sacramento, CA at The Sleeptrain Amphitheater, we will be playing on the Jagermeister Mobile Stage. After that we will be heading out on a full US run this fall.

That's it for now be sure to check out the newest drum blog on our MySpace page, our good friends at Rokedz has been documenting everything as we go, and we will keep you in the loop about recording sessions, new merch designs, album artwork, new tour dates and anything else that has to do with the new album: The Scars Between Us... coming soon!!"