Defeated Sanity to do a split album with..themselves?

From their Facebook page:

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!!!ALBUM NEWS!!!

Hey everyone! It may seem we were a little less active this year but now we're back with some great news!

The writing process of our fifth album is to be completed very soon. Actually all music is written at this point and we have already made plans and decisions which we want to let you know today:

First comes the most important. We consider ourselves a progressive Brutal Death Metal band and that means we can't do the same thing over and over again. We love to play the nastiest brutalest Death Metal as much as we love to be musically challenged and advance into new territory. Normally we combine these two things into one sound which is what we became known for. Now for our next album we changed this concept and instead of mixing all ingriedients together into one progressive brutal stew, we will go in two seperate ways.
Which means...

YES, we will record a SPLIT album with ourselves!!
One side will be the most brutal, more simple, more caveman Brutal Death that we ever made - but don't worry it will NOT be boring!!

The other side will be everything else. Technical, oldschool, progressive - just like we love to hear it from our old Prog Thrash&Death heros but of course we do it in our own way!

The album will again be released by Willowtip Records. Our cooperation has been extended by a new two-album contract. They have been reliable and professional and we couldn't be happier with what they offered us.

We will record the album in two parts. We have scheduled the first recording session at the end of the year.
It is too early to give a release date yet but we are looking at summer 2015.

Share this around and get excited. We can't wait to nail this beast down, it's going to be a perfect fifth album for us!!!

Weird. If you are doing all the songs yourself why call it a split?

Splitting it up this way to appease the fans who only like one style or the other is kind of silly. It makes it seem like they are purposely writing songs to fit into a certain style, rather than just letting an album flow naturally.