The Butcher Babies’ news feed has spun into a frenzy lately, trying to build up some excitement to a mysterious offering. While we’re not sure it worked, the band have announced straight up now they will be releasing a new EP.

The new EP will be called ‘Uncovered‘, and features a cover that pays homage to Guns ‘n’ Roses album ‘Lies‘. The EP will contain 5 tracks of covers, including a very old Napoleon-era track ‘They’re Coming To Take Me Away‘.

Frontwoman Carla Harvey said about the new EP:

“It was a blast recording songs that we have been fans of our entire lives and putting our spin on them.”

“We all chose a song that had some significance to us. My pick was ‘They’re Coming To Take Me Away’ by NAPOLEAN XIV, because I have a vivid memory of my stepdad, who I considered completely insane, playing it over and over again on his car stereo when I was a pre-teen. The song is about being taken away to a mental institution. I can still see him tapping his fingers on his steering wheel to the beat…”

Other frontwoman Heidi Shepard had this to say about the opus:

“As an eight or nine-year-old little girl, I used to rummage through my parents’ albums and 8-tracks looking for some cool music. In hopes that my parents had at least a little bit of good taste, I would play every single song looking for something that I could latch on to. That’s when I came across ‘Crazy Horses’ by THE OSMONDS; it was the heaviest song I had heard at that age. I would play that song over and over and over again, I was addicted. To this date, it’s still one of my favorite songs and reminds me so much of growing up in Provo, Utah.”

It will be interesting to hear the Butcher Babies take on some of these tracks, as their debut effort ‘Goliath‘ showed the band didn’t have the most fantastic of musicianship perhaps they can really impress us with the rearranging of some these songs.