‘Where We Belong’ is the brand new single from Lostprophets released 4th January 2010. The single is the second track to be taken from the bands forthcoming fourth album ‘The Betrayed’ out 18th January and they head out on tour throughout February.

The Pontypridd group wrote the track “after spending too much time in a studio in LA, we went back to Wales and our roots to start the second version of this album … this is our love letter to being home.” The single will be released on limited edition 7”, CD and digitally with an exclusive new track ‘Sunshine’ – the band described it as “too good to be a b-side but the album was full, sorry no more passengers…close the doors.”

Never let it be said that Lostprophets are a band that does things by halves.   Never let it be said that they won’t travel to the ends of the earth in pursuit of what they want.   Never let it be said that this is a group that is unwilling to put its money where its guitars are.

In January the Welsh sextet will release ‘The Betrayed’, their fourth studio album. The successor to 2006’s blockbusting Number One ‘Liberation Transmission’ – a set which propelled Lostprophets onto the stages of Britain’s largest indoor arenas – this forthcoming LP sees its creators prove the maxim that if a job is worth doing it is worth doing properly.  Truly, making ‘The Betrayed’ cost the band a great deal.   For one thing, it cost them almost three-quarters of a million dollars.   For another, it cost them two years of their lives.

Was it worth it?

“It was absolutely worth it,” says Ian Watkins, the band’s follically inventive frontman. “This is the best album we’ve made, by a mile.”

Lostprophets, though, were better equipped than most bands to deal with any troubles fate happened to throw their way.   After all, this is a band whose members have known each other since their school days in Pontypridd, South Wales, a group that were friends long before they became bandmates and colleagues.   Through three previous albums – 2000’s ‘fakesoundofprogress’, 2004’s ‘Start Something’ and ‘Liberation Transmission’ in 2006 – the sextet have risen from the clubs of England to the stage of Wembley Arena and the Manchester Evening News Arena.

In the United States, ‘Start Something’ sold more than 700,000 copies, earning its creators a gold disc.   And just this summer, the band headlined the main tent at the Leeds and Reading festivals.    Almost by stealth, the band have grown through the years, both in songwriting skills and success, stacking up a dozen or so top 40 singles and selling 2 million albums over the years.   They have arguably become one of the UK’s biggest rock bands without compromise or flirting with musical fashions, instead sticking to what they believe in and constantly striving to do better – whether writing or playing live.

And now it is time for a new album.   Comprising 11 songs, ‘The Betrayed’ is both Lostprophets rawest and most memorable release to date.   From the apocalyptic groove of opening track ‘If It Wasn’t For Hate We’d Be Dead By Now’, through the pop-tastic jump of ‘For He’s A Jolly Good Felon’, all the way to the rising glory of closing song ‘The Light That Burns Twice As Bright’, this is an album that takes everything the Lostprophets have learned in their decade together and harnesses it in one tightly coiled, whip-cracking package.

“This is what our band should sound like,” says bassist Stuart Richardson, who also produced the album (we’ll get to that).   “No bullshit, no tricks; raw, pissed-off and catchy as fuck.”