California rock Thrice is getting ready to release their seventh studio album “Major/Minor”. The album will be released September 20, 2011. The band has also released their fourth behind-the-scenes video of their creative process on their website, THRICE.net.

The band began recording “Major/Minor” began May 2 in Santa Monica, CA at Red Bull Studios with Dave Schiffman, who mixed “Beggars” and engineered “Vheissu.”

“It’s definitely the most natural progression from record to record that we’ve had in a while. We did The Alchemy Index, which was totally different [from Vheissu],” said lead singer Dustin Kensrue. “Then Beggars was kind of the reaction against that. This kind of makes sense coming out of Beggars, but it’s definitely a different record.”

Thrice, a four-piece band, formed in 1998 in Irvine, California and made their mark on the modern rock and heavy music scenes with their 2001 full-length debut, “Identity Crisis”. Their next releases after “Identity Crisis” were “The Illusion of Safety” (2002) and “The Artist In The Ambulance” (2003). Their most recent release was “Vheissu” (2005).

You can learn more about the band and their music at their official website (linked above) or their official Twitter and Facebook pages. You can also read more about their album in an interview they had with Alt Press.

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