Biffy Clyro Start Work on New Album - Spinner

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Biffy Clyrohave started work on their sixth album, the follow-up toMercury Music Prize-nominated 'Only Revolutions.'

Currently finishing off the first leg of an American tour, frontman Simon Neil toldBBC 6 Music,"I love writing songs at home, so we've got about 15 or 16 songs that we did over New Year, as soon as we get off the road we'll get the album done."

As for what the new material will sound like, Neil explained,"We're always going to be a rock band, it's always going to be heavy, but hopefully just bring different elements, it's going to sound like Biffy, it's not going to be a reggae record put it that way."

The Scottish trio's last album, 'Only Revolutions,' helped propel the band into the mainstream, picking up a Mercury Music Prize nomination and a Best Live Band gong at theNME Awardsbut it was 'X Factor' winnerMatt Cardle's Christmas No. 1 cover of 'Many of Horror' which really boosted the band's profile -- something Neil still finds"surreal."

He explained,"We were in Australia when it happened, it seemed like a bit of a joke and it still feels a bit surreal so I don't really know how to take it at all. Thankfully we weren't in the UK, I think we might have thought about it a bit more but because we were in Australia we just thought, 'Sod it, it's funny.'"

Watch the Video for Biffy Clyro's 'Many of Horror'

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