The focus on performance echoes recent comments by bandmate Munky, who suggested the possibility of delivering DJ-style sets featuring sections of songs instead of full ones.

Head tells Puregrain Audio: "We're talking at the moment about taking a couple of months off and going in straight away as it will probably take the rest of the year for us to do the album."

Asked whether revisiting their self-titled 1994 debut has affected their thinking on material, the guitarist replies: "I'm hoping. We won't go back and do that record again, obviously - but I was telling Jonathan Davis that I wanted to do some more faster-tempo stuff again.