Artillery announce new album, ‘X’

ARTILLERY have announced a new album!

Titled X, the upcoming album from the veteran Danish thrash band is the follow-up to 2018’s The Face Of Fear and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Metal Blade Records.

X was tracked in Medley Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark with producer Søren Andersen, who the band have worked with on every record since 2009’s When Death Comes. As well as his production work, Andersen contributed some keyboards to The Ghost Of Me, also adding some effects to a few other songs, and the band recruited their drivers/merch men to contribute some backing vocals on four tracks.

“We wanted to have the typical ARTILLERY trademarks, like the riffs and hook lines in the usual combination together with aggression and melody. We always try to combine melodic thrash metal with elements from the heavy sounds of the 70s and the 80s, and this time with new elements in some of the songs,” says guitarist Michael Stützer. “We don’t have to push ourselves hard when we’re writing a record because we love what we’re doing.

It feels great and awesome to have been going for nearly forty years. I’m so glad, and I am so lucky that I can do what I love the most, making albums and touring for our awesome fans. If anyone had told me forty years ago that I would have made ten albums and played in over sixty different countries, I wouldn’t have believed it.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first song from the upcoming album; In Thrash We Trust.

Listen to In Thrash We Trust here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. The Devils Symphony
2. In Thrash We Trust
3. Turn up the Rage
4. Silver Cross
5. In Your Mind
6. The Ghost of Me
7. Force of Indifference
8. Varg I Veum
9. Mors Ontologica
10. Eternal Night
11. Beggars in Black Suits

X is set for release on May 7th via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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