The manics are recording songs written by their missing bandmate.
Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers are recording new material, the band have announced.
In a statement on their website, the group revealed they are currently in the studio with Steve Albini and are putting together tracks featuring lyrics written by Richey Edwards.
Edwards, the fourth member of the band, disappeared on February 1st 1995 and has not been heard from since.
On their web page, the group said it was time to use the words left to them and revealed the new material will feature a mix of sounds.
"Musically, in many ways it feels like a follow-up to the Holy Bible but there is also an acoustic side - tender, romantic, nihilism, Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky-esque," they stated.
The band added the new album will be released in April or May next year, with two titles currently suggested - Journal for Plague Lovers and I Know I believe In Nothing But It Is My Nothing.
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