Saving Abel to Release Next Album by July

Saving Abel are currently on the road, but if you've only seen them during earlier tours, they're giving fans an additional reason to attend these shows -- you'll get to hear them try out new material that will probably end up on their sophomore album.

Speaking with Billboard, the band members mentioned several songs that they're previewing on this tour, including "Hell of a Ride," "Bloody Sunday" and "Tap Out." Drummer Blake Dixon says, "Basically right now we've got the album pretty much finished, and I think if we put it out right now people would love it. But we want to make sure we're completely ecstatic with it."

The record doesn't have a title yet, but from the band's comments, it appears that they want it to continue in the vein of their commercially successful 2008 debut, Saving Abel. They use words like "edgy" and "raunchy" in their description of the new songs, and those adjectives could certainly be used when discussing Saving Abel, which was boosted by the salacious slow-burn single "Addicted."

No exact release date has been set, but the band say they'll be putting out the album in the first half of 2010. But that doesn't mean they're done writing material for the record. "Hopefully [we'll] come up with just a few more tunes that are over the top," Dixon said, "kind of like how 'Addicted' was one of the last songs we recorded for [Saving Abel]. We want to take a little more time and put a little more into it and just come out with the best product we possibly can."

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