"It's a good gateway into the record," singer Gavin Rossdale recently told USA Today. "The record gets a bit wider and probably a little darker. This is just the right way in."

Due October 21,, the band's sixth release was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters, Mastadon) at Studio 606, the Northridge, California-based studio owned by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl.

"I thought he would never let me get to sentimental, sonically or lyrically," Rossdale says of Raskulinecz. "I thought he would keep it muscular, live and animalistic, which is what I really wanted."