THE Prodigy will journey through the unchartered underbelly of urban nightlife, where anger is an ever-present energy lurking beneath a surface of edgy calm, on their new album The Day Is My Enemy.

Released on March 30 on their own label Take Me To The Hospital in tandem with Cooking Vinyl, it will be backed up by a ten-date tour that includes one Yorkshire gig, at Bridlington Spa on May 5.

“I can’t tell you why this record came out so angry; I think it's just in-built in me,” says Liam Howlett, whose incendiary British electronic dance band are now in their 25th year.

“It’s more about what I like music to do. I’ve always seen music I like as a form of attack. That’s what I use music for, it’s an attack. I didn’t plan this album to sound violent; it’s just the sound that came out of the studio, a kind of build-up over the last four years. ‘Anger is an energy’ – that’s a lyric which always resonated with me. The tension is buried deep in the music right from the first drop. It’s all about the sound having that sense of danger. That’s what The Prodigy sound is about.”

If The Prodigy's 2009 album, Invaders Must Die, was the noise of the rusted urban sprawl decaying like an open wound in the British countryside, then The Day Is My Enemy depicts agitated humanity existing in the decay of the urban nightmare.

This is typified by first single Nasty, a ferocious statement of intent that will fire out of the cannons on February 9 and has been premiered this week as night-time DJ Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record in the World on BBC Radio 1.

The album portrays the city at night that talks through drones and chaos. The hidden city that lives in the shadows of the anaesthetised and over-stylised urban landscape. The night-time heart that pounds to the rush of different drums: a symphony of random noise soundtracking life at the edge of the night.

This is a place, say The Prodigy, where humanity lurks in darkened corners, hoods up, eyes down and communicating through clandestine gestures. Where the urban fox hunts in the darkness of the city’s suffocating ghost life, ransacking the daytime waste, taking what it wants, unafraid, unchallenged, untethered, untouchable, just like The Prodigy.

Advance reports suggest that Liam Howlett, Maxim and vocalist Keith Flint have made "probably the most British sounding album you’ll hear this year. Not British in the flag waving jingoistic sense, but in a way that understands that the night-time spaces of urban Britain are a multi-hued cacophony of cultures".

Fellow agitators Sleaford Mods, the Nottingham minimalist post-punk/hip hop duo, are guest contributors to the track Ibiza and among the 14 song titles are Rebel Radio, Destroy, Rok-Weiler, Beyond the Deathray, Rhythm Bomb, Get Your Fight On and Wall of Death; all so very Prodigy.

Tickets for May 5 go on sale tomorrow on 01262 678258 or at thespabridlington.com