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We may not have finished working on Dark Company’s Bad Habits album, but it is time to announce their 11th collection of songs. The newest album of songs by Dark Company will be titled Noir and we plan to have it ready by late 2010.

We have 18 song titles for you as well: Alarm Clock, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Cable Guy, Change the Light, Code Red, Coloured Drum, Dead Young, FBI, Mainstream Man, Meat Grinder, Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Now or Never, Please Try Later!, Right Turn, Sailor, Those Like Us, Tilt and Up West.

To tease you further, we have published the lyrics to these songs over at Explicit Music if you would like to read any of them. We may publish some demos and out-takes of these at some point soon. The title Noir came from the film genre of the same name and the dark, dark feel of the new material.

Due to a poorly computer in Studio 2, Pete today recorded some vocal parts to some of the oldest of old Alien Heat songs as that collection develops further. Easy Street and Wonderlust were the songs he recorded and it was fun to do them again after nearly 20 years since their last outing. There are only three more songs on that collection still in need of vocals to be recorded.

Meanwhile, our boffins are grappling with the assortment of intangibilities and imponderables that make up Knowing, We Are from the Bad Habits album. Brian Eno, producer of U2’s Joshua Tree, once described the engineering of the opening track Where the Streets Have No Name as “… a nightmare of screwdriver work.” Knowing, We Are is another song that seems to fit into that particular category.

Dark Company also plan to do another photoshoot. Pete tried out his somewhat frightening hair dye the other day. It may yet look cool. More news on this will follow shortly.

It seems as if Andy’s finger doesn’t need surgery after all. It means he has to wear his cast for another month. Meanwhile the set is improving and we hope there will be some live performances sometime around the end of October.

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. :)