Louder Than The Music

American alternative rock band Anberlin will release their sixth studio album, 'Vital' on 16th October 2012. The album was produced by Aaron Sprinkle (Deftones, Hawk Nelson, Jeremy Camp) who frontman Stephen Christian credits with helping to inject even more electronic elements into the mix.

"He was the interpreter, the grand translator of how to add that stuff and make it sound like Anberlin," Christian recalls. "It's just a plethora of different keyboard sounds."

Anberlin will be opening for legendary rock superstars Smashing Pumpkins throughout October, with twelve shows in Canada and the US. "This is an unimaginable tour opportunity for us, so we are super pumped!" said the band.

They will also be doing a run of headline shows around the Midwest and East Coast of the US in November, and have confirmed their eleven-date UK tour for January and February 2013 visiting cities including Bristol, Brighton, Manchester, Glasgow and London.

The quintet sorted through between 60-70 songs for 'Vital', about 40 of which came from guitarist Joey Milligan. Fifteen were recorded with 11 appearing on the final album.

A twelfth bonus track, called 'Unstable', is available on the iTunes version of the album, and fans can also get a second song, 'Self-Starter' ahead of the release before using the 'Complete My Album' option on iTunes on release day.

Anberlin's last album, 'Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place' in 2010 was the group's first top 10 entry on the Billboard 200 (No. 9), selling 95,000 copies according to SoundScan and launching the Top 5 Alternative Rock hit 'Impossible'.