Cradle Of Filth will enter the studio in later this year to start work on the follow-up to 2008's Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder.
"Everything is at an embryonic stage at present," said frontman Dani Filth. "But with a full band contributing towards the writing process, our aim of being in the studio by November is not as far-fetched as it would at first seem."
The band's ninth studio effort will be released in spring 2010 through Roadrunner.