The follow-up to Grand Morbid Funeral released in 2014 by Swedish death metallers Bloodbath might be coming out sooner than you think. According to frontman Nick Holmes, the band has plans to enter studio in January 2018 to record the next album. Bloodbath will also tour in USA and Canada in May 2018.

Nick Holmes told Metal Wani in an interview: "The guys are working on it now, so I think we're looking at recording in the end of January. We're looking at doing it maybe early February. So, yeah, we'll definitely do another album. But we'll see what happens. The guys in Katatonia have been busy touring as well, so they're pretty much winding up now ? I think they're playing Russia next week and then they're finished for the year. So, yeah, at the end of January, I think, we're gonna start now."

He added: "With Bloodbath, we're not gonna do any extensive touring. We've just done seven weeks in Europe with Paradise Lost. We wouldn't do that with Bloodbath. We're doing a short U.S. tour; we're only playing, like, about eight dates in both places. So anything we do with Bloodbath is a short, in-and-out kind of quick couple of gigs. We don't wanna do any long tours with Bloodbath; we wanna keep it quite kind of special in a way. I mean, we only planned on doing 13 shows when we started playing live anyway, and then we ended up doing, like, 30 shows. But it's good fun to do ? meet the guys and do it now and again through the year. But, yeah, we wouldn't do anything that's gonna impact on PL or Katatonia or Opeth for that matter; we just do it in between."

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