The rock legendary RUSH has decided to go back to studio to record their new album. They will be co-producing this album with Foo Fighters, Nick Raskulinecz who has scheduled to fly to toronto next week to meet with the band. The album currently is in the demo phase right now.

Alex Lifeson, guitarist, mentions "It's early stages. We have nine songs written so far,""We're going to continue until we have about 12 songs and finish up preproduction at the end of October, so we'll be really well prepared and then go in the studio in November and start recording."

Lifeson also explains "This time around, we wanted to write, we wanted to rehearse the material, we wanted to get really inside it before we actually recorded it,""We're not spending a lot of time on sound or getting too involved in the recording."

It has been known that Lee and Lifeson have been working since the early part of this year. While Peart has sent lyrics to them. Last May, they all spent a month in studio.

This is the 18th studio RUSH album after their last studio album in 2004 "Feedback"

Lifeson also mentions about the songs "It's awesome, but I say that about all our records at this point. With every new record, it's the most exciting thing you've ever done. But there's a quality about this record that's very expansive and musically lyrical. It's very melodic. I've written almost exclusively on acoustic guitar. When Geddy and I write, I'm playing acoustic and he's playing bass, so there's a different character to the way the writing is developing.

"To me, it seems so apparent immediately whether a piece of music works or not when it's written on acoustic. You're not fooled by some distorted sound or some effect you put on guitar or something like that. This is pure in its essence and you know right away whether this chorus works or whether this verse works.

"So I'm really excited about the way this is going to develop once we start recording it."

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