It’s been six years since Massive Attack delivered their 100th Window album, although various side projects and compilations have been released since then. In October this year the band is set to reveal its fifth album, which is yet to bear a title, and are promising an extensive world tour.

"We'll do the U.K., Europe, then take Christmas off, and then go to Asia, into America and then we'll roll out to the festivals,” says founding member Robert Del Naja. “When you get on a roll it's such a laugh. For Meltdown last year we ended up doing about 40 shows all around eastern and southern Europe, it was really good fun. So I can imagine for this we'll end up doing maybe 150 gigs."

A proposed title for the album, Weather Underground, may or may not be used, with the band still caught up in discussions. “We had a stage name for it, and we've given up on it, we've gone back," Del Naja says. "We always think of the name at the last minute, that way you haven't got to think about it or live with it."

[Billboard]