ALESTORM Announces Work on Third Studio Album

From the words of the Scottish pirates themselves:

“Greetings my fellow bawbags, pirates, and gobshites!

It is my very great pleasure to announce that on January 10th, Alestorm will be heading to the studio to record our 3rd album, which we're gonna call “Back Through Time”. It's gonna be an epic adventure through piratical badassery in 11 tracks, with more drunken singalong anthems than you can shake a stick at. There will be songs about midgets. There will be songs about Wisconsin. There will be songs about travelling through time to kill Vikings. And of course, loads of songs about pirates doing what they do best; kicking your ass and stealing your wenches!

Lasse Lammert will once again be at the helm of the production, at his LSD Studios in Lubeck, Germany. We'll be there for about a month (1 week of recording, 3 weeks of alcohol abuse), and we're hopefully looking at a release in early summer, in time for us to kick your asses with these songs at all the festivals. ”

Alestorm made the announcement on their official MySpace along with a list of songs that will be included on the album:

The Sunk'n Norwegian
Shipwrecked (Pure Dead Banjaxed)
Buckfast Powersmash
Rum
Back Through Time
Swashbuckled
Death Throes of the Terrorsquid
Midget Saw
Scraping the Barrel
Rumpelkombo
Barrett's Privateers

The band also made vague and nebulous promises of a digipak with “a bunch of daft covers [and] bonus tracks as well,” and details will trickle in later in the year. Additionally, they will tour Australia and New Zealand in support of their new album. Stay tuned for more Alestorm news in the spring!