March 18 [7:55 EST] -- Collective Soul has a new album out, "Disciplined Breakdown," which is the product of a lengthy stay in a rural shack in the band's hometown of Stockbridge, Georgia.

The group retreated to the cabin for nine months after returning from the road to find itself embroiled in a lawsuit with its ex-manager.

That legal wrangle has since been resolved, but as singer Ed Roland explained to us recently, it left traces on some of the songs.

"It was a place when we got off tour, we literally had to move back home with our parents," Roland explained. "We were in a legal law suit with our ex-manager, and it kinda' just put the machine in halt. Everything just came to a halt. So what we did, we rented a cabin where we were going to store the equipment. During the nine months that we were going through the legal, um, hassles, we continued playing. It was therapy for us to sit around together as a

band and perform."

Collective soul will start a U.S. tour in Columbus, Ohio on April 26.