New Staind Album On The Way

New Staind album on the way? Even though Staind frontman Aaron Lewis may have gone a little bit country, he says don't worry, he's still a whole lot rock n roll. He's on tour through the summer promoting his solo c.d. "Town Line", but says Staind is at the forefront of his mind.

Aaron Lewis tells Gannett Media "The business model of Staind hasn't changed at all, and we're not going anywhere," Lewis told Gannett Media. "These solo shows are something I've just been doing year after year." As for Staind's next album, Lewis says the band is about "two-thirds of the way through it already."

“This is some of the heaviest stuff we’ve written in a long time,” he said. “Heavier than ‘Mudshovel.’”

Lewis says the album could be out as early as late summer or early fall. Staind will play their first show of 2011 at Rock on the Range in Columbus, Ohio, in May.