The Bouncing Souls are planning on releasing their new album on June 12th, and they recently did an article to discuss the new record. Check out the full article here and some quotes from the band below by clicking “Read More.”

They have an amazing system here set up with Bill, Jason [Livermore, engineer] and all the guys that work here. We went really intense. Everyone tracks—you’ve got guitar tracking in one place, bass and vocals in another place and editing—all at the same time, so it’s just a really cool system where you get a lot of man hours in a short amount of time because things are going on in different places. We got an amazing-sounding record in just ten days.

That energy and urgency translated to the finished product, which sounds as if it’ll be the most direct material the Bouncing Souls have cut to tape in several years, with no curveballs, cover songs or B-sides. “We were like, ‘Okay, we want to get in a room together and take the spirit out of what we did years ago and what we’ve learned and try to get inspired with that energy into it and make a punk record. So for our style, a Bouncing Souls punk record, we told Bill about it and he was just stoked as hell. He said ‘Let’s bang out ten songs and just put the energy into it. Make it spontaneous and just get it down like we used to without tinkering and getting deeply into songwriting.’