Falls Fest headliners Franz Ferdinand have revealed that their third album, tentatively titled Tonight, features percussion from an instrument that puts the entire – œdeath metal’ genre to shame – a human skeleton.

In an interview with MTV’s Chris Harris, frontman Alex Kapranos recalled that they used the skeleton for “a real dry, percussive sound”. The venture with the human remains soon became a whole band affair. ” Nick had the hands and was clapping the bones together. [Drummer] Paul [Thomson] was working with the pelvis bone and a femur. We put the teeth in a glass jar and rattled that about. We smacked the ribs together and we got this really weird, fucked-up kind of a sound that was wicked.”

Tonight is set for release in January, meaning that we get one of the first tastes of the band’s bone-rattling new songs. Only time will tell if their live show is just as spine-tingling.