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On March 1, 2010, an update on the Symphony X official website announced, that the band had recorded most of their next album and that Romeo and Allen were working on lyrics ; Romeo was getting ready to start doing tracking for the album.

The album's name and lyrical concept were revealed on January 29, 2011 in an interview by DJ JC Green of Metal Messiah Radio's " Heavy Metal Thunder " show with Russell Allen: the follow-up to Paradise Lost will be titled Iconoclast and will have its lyrics centered around " machines taking over everything and all this technology we put our society into pretty much being our demise.

" When asked about a release date, Allen said, " We are in post-production, so the album is pretty much almost done.

At this point, mixes are being wrapped up and finalized and it's off to mastering and should be ready for release in a few months, definitely first quarter of 2011.

We've got the artworks all done, we're taking pictures next week ... all that good stuff.

So everything's on track for release pretty soon.

Allen also commented that " Sonically, it's in the realm of Lost in a way, in terms of the sound of things ; the guitar sound is a little different.

Basically, the album is pretty intense, probably the most intense record we've ever done ... " This album will contain a good body of work that harkens back to a lot of early metal, some early metal, and a lot of Symphony X standards that you guys know already, and a little bit of a newer sound too, here and there, just a newer direction.