Rumour is rife Radiohead are about to drop their highly anticipated ninth studio album, with the band deleting almost their entire internet presence.
Their Facebook and Twitter accounts have been purged clean, the entire history of posts deleted and banner images blank.
Lead singer Thom Yorke, who once released a solo album called The Eraser, has also stripped his Twitter page to nothing, and the band's website is empty, as is their Google+ page.
Thom Yorke's Twitter page this morning
Last week the band sent cryptic flyers to music journalists and fans, which read: 'Sing a song of sixpence that goes / burn the witch / we know where you live."
'Burn the Witch' is the name of a Radiohead song the band played live in the early 2000s, but never released.
Radiohead late last year registered a new company, which they also did before the releases of 2007's In Rainbows and 2011's The King of Limbs.
In March they announced a world tour and festival dates, and uploaded an image that some have speculated to be the album cover.
The band's official Instagram profile has been left alone, the image remaining the band's most recent post.
Now an independent band, for their last two records Radiohead adopted unusual methods of promotion and delivery. In Rainbows was released with little warning via the internet, the band letting fans choose to pay whatever they want, even nothing -- common now, but virtually unheard of in 2007.
For 2011's The King of Limbs they released a free newspaper and toured with two drummers. Despite its poor showing in stores, the band said direct sales through the internet made it their most profitable album to date.
Yorke's second solo album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, was released on the internet through file-sharing software.
Fans have been speculating on how the band might release their ninth record, with suggestions including "directly into my veins" and as an episode of Game of Thrones.
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