BAT announce new album ‘Under The Crooked Claw’
BAT have announced a new album!
Titled Under The Crooked Claw, the upcoming album from the Richmond, Virginia-based metal and punk trio is the long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s Wings Of Chains, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via their new home at Nuclear Blast Records.
The band decamped to Philadelphia in June 2021 where Arthur Rizk recorded the basic tracks for Under The Crooked Claw. Yavé Rust tracked lead guitars and vocals later when the band was back in Richmond, ultimately to be mixed by Rizk and mastered by Joel Grind. The artwork for the album was inked by Brandon Holt and colored by Margaret Rolicki.
Alongside the announcement of the new album, BAT have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Rite Of Exorcism.
Speaking about the upcoming album, and the new song, bassist Ryan Waste says, “this record came together during dark times and its aggression is surely a reflection of that. Nick, Chris, and I hammered out song after song in a grimy, mold-ridden warehouse, turning our anger at the state of the world into what became Under The Crooked Claw. To set the tone for the album, I called upon legendary Italian horror maestro Fabio Frizzi to compose an intro, just before BAT’s raw force assaults your ears. While simultaneously working on a heavy metal horror script with Norman Cabrera, I shared some of the new BAT songs with him. With our shared taste in film and vision, we devised two video concepts for the upcoming record based on my lyrics. The first offering is our twist on a tale of an exorcism gone awry, that Norman completely nailed to the cross.”
Watch the official music video for Rite For Exorcism here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Una Torcia Illumina Il Cielo (Fabio Frizzi)
2. Vampyre Lore
3. Rite For Exorcism
4. Streetbanger
5. Just Buried
6. Warshock
7. Horror Vision
8. Battered
9. Revenge of the Wolf
10. Marauders of Doom
11. Electric Warning
12. Bastardized Force
13. Final Strike
Under The Crooked Claw is set for release on May 17th via Nuclear Blast Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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