Sweden-based death metallers THE PROJECT HATE have issued the following update from Lord K. Philipson:

"Here’s a small glimpse of the material for the new album. It’s a photo (at left)… of… some mp3s. Wow. Amazing. Thank you.

Finished up the last tune for the coming album yesterday, as mentioned. Yep, there sure are some GOJIRA influences in a part, there’s no denying that. Great, great band. There’s also some old-school death metal influences as well as a dash of EXODUS and CANDLEMASS at times. You don’t even know what’s coming your way with this fucken monster, trust me on that. We have stepped up not only one, but a few notches with this material – that’s a fact.

Today I sorted the parts for vocals in the latest tune as well as picking out all the parts in all songs where we will have amazing guitar solos courtesy of the fantastic Mike Wead once again.

Now I need to finish up the last lyrics for this final track. Ruby is about to record some more pre-production material for the remaining tracks as well and I can’t wait to get those, to say the least. It’s so great to hear what she puts into our songs and how much of a difference it really makes compared to our old vocalissas, even though they have done a good job over the years – but Ruby’s exactly what I have been looking for all my life it feels like. Outstanding girl. Outstanding.

I’m sitting here listening to all the tunes with a huge grin on my face, blasting the tunes fucken LOUD, much to the delight of my neighbors, I’m sure.

Still no news on the label situation. We had some interest last week, but after that I haven’t heard anything from them. They really dug what they heard from The lustrate Process and all as well, so that’s weird. I’m not chasing after them though. If they wanna sign us for this album – they will sign us. If not, well, it is what it is. Fuck it then. Good label though with a great roster. We’ll see what happens, I guess. All I care about is composing the best damned material I ever composed in my life – and I am content with that for the time being. What happens – happens.

I’m off to work some more with this monster, and I’ll keep you updated as always."

The band's previous update states:

"We are getting used to this now… Due to the financial situation and the complete lack of record sales for smaller record labels – Vic Records can’t hand us even the smallest budget for the next album. So instead of waiting for things to change (if they ever will) we have now parted ways with Vic Records so we won’t be sitting around for ages with material for a fantastic album that will never be recorded, or when it eventually gets recorded the songs are so old we all will be in our mid-50’s. That’s not too far away when we think about it really… But hey, the point is made.

We really did everything we could to bring the costs down for this album to help Vic out, but you at least have to have a minimum cost to record an album (if you don’t want your productions to sound like something Darkthrone just released – and hey, we think we need a better sound than that to make all details come thru to the listener). We sure would have appreciated to have been informed about this some time ago when we approached the label in question about the new album (and were assured everything was cool) instead of when we are finalizing the last song for the new album, just dying to start recording everything in a few months. It is what is is though.

However, we wanna thank Vic Records for the work they have done. They did what they could and we appreciate the effort. We sincerely hope they get the label out of the deep waters – K has known Vic-chief Roel for quite some time and his passion for the label is like K’s passion for his music. He deserves to get the ship sailing, dear Roel. Either way, this is what it looks like; downloading kills the record industry – that’s obvious. And ultimately it’s smaller bands (like us) and smaller labels (like Vic) who suffer the blow.

So, we have now started to look for a new label. To be completely serious we don’t know if we’ll get one becoz of the reasons mentioned above. Labels simply have a hard time recouping the costs they put in to get an album out and to say that they have to think twice before releasing anything – that’s an understatement. We’ll see what happens.

Interested parties can contact us at theprojecthate@gmail.com."