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Days Like These, the sixth track on Dark Company’s Bad Habits collection, has now been uploaded. It is a light-hearted pop-rock ditty hoping for some future change. It sounds as if the lead guitar causes the universe to be destroyed at the end, and the snare drum is so nailed by Sven that we could have sworn he played the drums using sledgehammers rather than sticks. We hope you like the new version.

It looks as if Mr Lijkkes of The Bastard Sons of Dennis will be going under the knife at the end of the month. His tendon will be reattached and at some point thereafter the contraption holding his finger in place will be able to be removed and he will return to normal. Meantime, the set of Blue Oyster Cult songs is coming along very nicely indeed and the duo are looking into adding Dominance and Submission and OD’d on Life Itself to the set.

We’ve uploaded the new mix of Nightshifters to Dark Company’s Bad Habits collection. We hope you like the new version with its beautifully filthy guitars, the ten imperial tons of mean and dirty bass hanging in mid-air like a single vast flawless slab of iron, and all the lovely twinkly ethereal keys. This song is a lyrical favourite of the team overflowing with Pete’s magical evocative imagery. It is a kind of visionary space-metal proclamation with a hint of Evanescence and a tang of Kraftwerk about it.

Dark Company have also been busy working on material new and old. Much of the Alien Heat collection is progressing, as is the Can of Worms collection.

All the demos of their 11th album have been mixed into one solid lump of guitars, voices, basses and drums which we are calling Wooden Wires. It has a very pleasing sound indeed and we’re looking forward very much to hearing the finished product! We anticipate that work on the Wooden Wires material will begin in earnest around the end of this year or early next year.

Pete recorded some Dark Company vocals for The Joker earlier and it’s sounding great. All of the Alien Heat collection is now at alpha stage, even the extremely daunting and difficult Alpha Omega with its changes of tempo and its various time signatures. It’s just after 6am and we are very chuffed to announce this, so hooray! And now it’s time for a warm cup of cocoa, a blood transfusion and some sleep. :)

Andy’s recent visit to the doctor revealed some rather unfortunate facts for The Bastard Sons of Dennis. His finger does not seem to be healing so well after all. The ligaments are not re-attaching themselves properly and he may need an operation to help fix it. We all hope he recovers soon and will keep you updated.

Work on the Alien Heat album by Dark Company has been progressing at a reasonable rate in between the other things going on in the Wud universe. It is almost 20 years since Alien Heat formed as a band, so we are hoping to release Dark Company’s Alien Heat collection as a 20th Anniversary Special Edition before June 2010. Much of the sequencing has been salvaged now and about half of the album is at Alpha stage.