Black Sabbath New Album Update

What we know so far came out a couple of days ago from various online sources. Metal Injection is one of the websites who published an exclusive report. Adding to that other websites talking about the progress of the one of the most anticipated albums in rock and metal.

So this is what is known about the progress of the new Black Sabbath album:

- One song title, called "God Is Dead".

- The band recorded 15 songs. 12 will make it to the album, the other 3 will be released with other special / deluxe editions.

- The band is recording the new album at Shandri La Studios in Malibu, US.

- The album will come out next, but no release date announced.

- The title of the album will also be announced next year. Ozzy told NME "next year, 2013, is a good clue of what we'll call the album."

- Bassist Geezer Butler revealed that the band was approaching the album in the same way that they did with their all important second album "Rick Rubin (Producer) sat us down, put the first album on and said, "listen to this. Imagine it's 1969. You just did that. What would you do next?"

- Tony Iommi finished guitar tracks on all songs of all 15 songs.

- Ozzy and Geezer are writing lyrics, and currently putting vocals and bass on all songs.

- No word on who is (already) given the drums tasks.

On all websites publishing current Black Sabbath news one can see already seen pictures of the band from the Ozzy era, but all pictures have Bill Ward removed from them!

It doesn't need a lot of thinking to know that Bill is our of the picture the moment the official Black Sabbath website came online with dozens of old and new pictures, all cut artistically to show three instead of the original four band members.

Back to the new album, from reading the above, am I seeing a fast pace in putting things together? In either case, I look forward to the new album next year.