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Ash say their fifth album, due for release in late spring, will be heavier than anything they have ever done.

The band have recorded the album in Hollywood and say they were keen to work with a US producer, reports Rolling Stone.

Tim Wheeler said: "We wanted to work with an American producer. One who knew the kind of sounds we wanted to make."

They were inspired by albums like Nirvana's Nevermind, and Guns n' Roses' Appetite for Destruction and made the album with Foo Fighters producer Nick Raskulinecz.

Wheeler singles out the track Clones as "heavier than anything we've ever done before". Other tracks include Evil Eye, Meltdown, Oprheus and Detonator.

Both the singer and bassist Mark Hamilton credit drummer Rick McMurray's increasingly aggressive style with helping spark the band's higher octane sound.

"Bands complain that they get pigeonholed," says McMurray. "I think we've had the opposite problem. People have a hard time figuring out what we're on about. We wanted to make a more cohesive album."