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''The Betrayed'' is the fourth studio album by the Welsh alternative rock band Lostprophets, released through Visible Noise and Sony Music Entertainment on 13 January 2010. Although the band initially wished to record a quick follow-up to 2006's ''Liberation Transmission'', problems with labels and producers led to numerous delays. Consequently, tracks from the album were performed live as early as 2007, but recording was not completed until July 2009, following an entire album's worth of material being scrapped by the band. The singles include: "It's Not the End of the World, But I Can See It from Here", "Where We Belong" and "For He's a Jolly Good Felon". "A Better Nothing" was set to be the fourth single, but it was cancelled for unspecified reasons ==Writing and recording== Having started writing new tracks between tour dates in 2006 and 2007, Lostprophets debuted several new songs live in 2007, including "Next Stop Atro City", "The Dead", "Weapon" and "For He's a Jolly Good Felon". The band recorded demo tracks in then-drummer Ilan Rubin's garage in San Diego, and album sessions with producer John Feldmann in Foxy Studios, Bel Air. A demo of "Weapon" was played on BBC Radio 1's Rock Show in August 2007, and subsequently revealed by the band to have been rejected from the album. However, a different version of this track was later released as a hidden track on the band's fifth studio album, Weapons. In January 2008, Kerrang! magazine revealed six new song titles, including one ("Save Yourself"), which later appeared as a bonus track on ''Weapons'', and four ("Credible vs Incredible", "The Mourning Reign", "What Seems to Be the Problem Officer?" and "She's with the Banned") that have not been mentioned since. Although the band had recorded a full album's worth of material in LA, reportedly spending around $500,000, they felt that the resultant recordings were too "slick and shiny", featuring layers of Pro Tools and even trumpets.〔 Dissatisfied with this, the recordings were scrapped and the band approached Bob Rock (producer of ''Liberation Transmission'') to produce the album in March 2008. However, Rock's hectic and unpredictable schedule, coupled with his scepticism that the songs were good enough to work on full-time,〔 meant that they were not able to record with him until April〔 or June 2009. The band also left their US record label, Columbia, also unconvinced of the quality of the new material,〔 around this time, with Sony Music Entertainment taking over their actions in the American market.〔 Faced with such adversity, Lostprophets decided to take control of the record back, with bassist Stuart Richardson (who had produced the band's demo EPs in the late 90s〔 and the self-titled debut album for Attack! Attack! earlier in 2008) leading the production alongside Justin Hopfer for the album.〔〔 They continued writing in 2008, debuting eventual first single "It's Not the End of the World, But I Can See It from Here" (a title that had been mentioned since August 2007,〔 having been one of the first songs written for the new album in 2006) and "Streets of Nowhere" live, as well as a new version of "Next Stop Atro City". In November 2008, Lostprophets finally began the sessions for what would become ''The Betrayed''. Following pre-production in Alabama the band moved on to Sunset Sound, Kingsize Soundlabs and Richardson's home,〔 all in Los Angeles. The band enjoyed the freedom self-production gave them, feeling that the album is "totally representative" of them rather than being "diluted with someone else's vision".〔〔 Rubin was invited by Trent Reznor to join the touring band for Nine Inch Nails in November 2008, and so left Lostprophets but not before tracking all of the drums and helping pen some of the music for the album. Former Beat Union drummer Luke Johnson joined Lostprophets around June 2009,〔 has filmed the videos for the album's first two singles〔 (Luke Johnson shown as part of a series of pictures taken on the set of the two videos)〕 and has played live with the band since late August. The album recordings were announced to be completed via a MySpace blog on 31 March 2009, with interludes recorded around May. In August 2009, "If It Wasn't for Hate We'd Be Dead by Now" followed by "Dstryr/Dstryr" and "Where We Belong" were played live for the first time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Betrayed (Lostprophets album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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