Rush finishes recording new album.
Canadian rock icons Rush have wrapped up recording sessions for their first album of new material in more than half a decade.
Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart are now mixing the still untitled album, which is scheduled to be in stores in "early spring", the band's label, Anthem/Universal, announced late Tuesday. It will be the trio's first new studio release since "Test For Echo" in September 1996.
As reported earlier, Rush's 17th studio album is being produced by the band with friend and engineer Paul Northfield, whose resume includes work with Hole and Marilyn Manson.
In a posting last fall on his official website (www.geddylee.net), Lee described the sessions as an experiment, but added that much of their time together on the project was spent getting reacquainted after a five-year hiatus.
"We have been working in an environment that allows us to keep some of the more spontaneous moments that occur during writing and blend them with a more rehearsed and typical style of production," Lee said in his message.
"It took a while for us to get to the point where we felt what we were producing was fresh enough and of the quality that we demand of ourselves."
The band had been inactive since its last performance, July 4, 1997 at Ottawa's Corel Centre, the final date in support of their "Test For Echo" album. Following that, Peart endured two tragedies: the death of his daughter in a car crash and the loss of his wife due to cancer, which triggered the group's open-ended hiatus. Peart has since remarried.
"This project is about so much more than us making a record," Lee told JAM! Senior Reporter, Paul Cantin, just after the band regrouped in a Toronto-area studio, almost exactly one year ago.
"It is about us coming back together. It is about the psychological health and welfare of all the people who have gone through a very difficult time ... I want it to happen, and I want it to happen in a very positive and natural way."
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