Chicago's Yakuza have begun demoing new material at Semifour Studios for their forthcoming new album which is tentatively titled Transmutations. The album is scheduled for a late 2007 release through Prosthetic Records. The band has chosen Sanford Parker (Pelican, Minsk, Rwake) to handle production duties when recording begins later this month. Parker made a guest appearance on the band's last release Samsara.

The band's frontman Bruce Lamont had this to say about the new album:

This time it's all about variety, each song has its own personality with the album covering a much broader spectrum. The extremes are really drastic: super schizoid-brutal to almost reflective and minimal. Just like with 'Samsara,' we're looking at this album as a whole. I don't want to say the album will be an 'experience' per-se because that sounds too hippie-ish, but it's gonna be one of those things that you have to listen to start to finish.