Staind frontman Aaron Lewis talks new album

Staind frontman Aaron Lewis told Billboard.com  the band is about "two-thirds of the way through" the recording of its seventh studio album, which is tentatively slated to come out in late 2011. Lewis described the record as "the heaviest record or collection of songs we have written in a long time. There's no 'Outsides,' no 'It's Been Awhiles,' no 'Right Heres,' anything like that. It's straightforward and heavy . . . the songs I used to bring on the mellower side will now be the embodiment of my solo career, and Staind can stick to doing the heavier things."