Thanks to the Offical Mission website for this update.

"It's been a while since we mentioned anything about the new Mission album so we thought we'd update you on how things are going!

The album itself has a working title of "Moist", which is subject to change of course, and the band have around 20 tracks in various stages of completion. Some of the titles to look out for are 'To Love And To Kill With The Very Same Hand', 'Headshrinker', 'Chinese Burn', 'Belladonna', 'God Is A Bullet', & 'Aquarius & Gemini'.

With so many tracks, obviously not all will appear on the album so there is much debate going on at the moment as to which songs will make it onto the finished article as there are so many strong contenders. Be assured though that any tracks left off thealbum will more than likely feature somewhere sometime....... Over the coming weeks the band will be in a recording studio in the UK putting the finishing touches to the basic recordings. Although we can't confirm at the time of writing, we do plan to have several special guests appearing on the album – some of which may be a (very pleasant) surprise to some of you.
Preceding that though, Wayne's solo tour around Europe will take place and we have it on good authority that Wayne may actually debut some of these songs at his shows. Once the recordings are completed in the UK the rest of the year will be taken up with final overdubs, mixing and mastering the album. At this time there is no fixed release date although we are hoping for early 2007.

We're all very excited about the new album – this is the first album to feature tracks where Wayne, Mark, Rich and Steve have all collaborated and, although the tracks retain the Mission "feel", they're something different again from previous albums. We've got more plans to reveal over time but for now .... spread the word and Keep the Faith.
Paul, MWIS

P.S. Also one other thing we should mention is that in the September issue (on sale at the end of August) of the French alternative magazine, D-Side, there is a 4 page interview/feature with Wayne. And, with this issue, as with every issue of D-Side, there is a free CD. And on this particular CD is a new track written and recorded exclusively for this release by Wayne. It actually appears under the name of Wayne Hussey rather than The Mission, and this represents Wayne's first solo release, in name at least, since 1980. The song is called 'One Thing Leads To Another' and is a beauty......."

Not only was it a surprise to see the Mission back on the road in 1999, it was a real shock to see them releasing new and reworked material. For his next trick, Wayne Hussey proves his new staying power with a document of 1999's Resurrection tour. A mostly live album, Ever After proves that the Mission were no hacks when it came to performances. Their power on this disc is obvious at the outset with the "rock god" chord that takes you out of the intro and into a hyped-up version of "Beyond the Pale." Unfortunately for this collection, which musically is the best the Mission have sounded in a decade, the quality of the mix is hard to get through. It sounds muddy, and there is far too much background noise. All faults aside, of which there are but few, this live collection is well worth the buy. The band swaggers through the best of the past, with tracks like "Sacrilege" and "Deliverance" maintaining their original power. Tacked on at the end is a studio cover of the Osmonds' "Crazy Horses," which is just as heavy and rocking as the rest of the album. Mission fans will not want to miss this.

Tracklisting

01. Keep It In The Family ( Radio Edit )

02. Whether Man ( Non-Album Track )

03. Refugee ( Non-Album Track )

04. It Don't Matter Anymore Anyhow ( Non-Album Track )

There is a happy land where the Mission never went off the boil, where the desperate maneuverings of Masque and Neverland never sent them spiraling away from what they did best, and where the upheavals and evils of the past ten years never once impacted the gorgeous gleam of post-Zep atmosphere and pre-Hollywood Tolkien-esque fantasy that was the hallmark of their best (first two) albums. It is a land that has been on regular display on-stage since the band's late-'90s reformation, but Aura, a U.K. release in 2001 that finally reached America 12 months later, was its first studio manifestation -- and what a joy it is. With the spirit of "Serpent's Kiss" playing around its intro guitars, and an anthemic quality that cannot be ignored, the opening "Evangeline" insists from the outset that the reborn Mission are not here to simply make up the numbers. True, its S&M theme isn't exactly the most inspired lyric Wayne Hussey has ever come up with (the title rhymes with "whiplash queen" -- ouch), but ignore the words and the music washes you clean of every year that's elapsed since the golden age of "Severina," "Wasteland," and "Garden of Delight." Neither is it a one-off. Across 14 tracks (an untitled ballad is secreted at the end), Aura sounds like the greatest-hits album that never was, a succession of brilliantly conceived ghosts that reassemble all the Mission's proudest moments, then fashion something dynamically new and pure from them. True, "Cocoon" does glance in the direction of the Cure for its bassline, and "(Slave To) Love" wallows in that same discomfortingly sexually implicit trough as Masque's "Heaven Sends You." But who else than the Mission could even wonder what would happen if you conjoined Radiohead and Uriah Heep ("In Denial")? Who but they could conjure something so undeniably sappy, but achingly pristine as "Dragonfly"? And who but they would dare marry a mock-Morrissey lyric to a proto-Prodigy rhythm, and then cut it off after little more than a minute ("To Die By Your Hand")? From start to finish, it's the Mission back at the starting post, and straining to start the sprint. And, if Aura truly is the rebirth it appears to be, this time they might complete it.