Vio-Lence announce new EP ‘Let The World Burn’
VIO-LENCE have announced a new EP!
Titled Let The World Burn, the upcoming EP from the Bay-Area thrash metal band is their first original music for 29 years (since 1993’s Nothing To Gain), and is scheduled to be released in March this year, via Metal Blade Records.
Filling out the band‘s ranks on Let The World Burn alongside guitarist Phil Demmel and vocalist Sean Killian are original drummer Perry Strickland, former OVERKILL guitarist Bobby Gustafson and former FEAR FACTORY bassist Christian Olde Wolbers. Let The World Burn was recorded with Juan Urteaga at Trident Studios (TESTAMENT, MACHINE HEAD, EXODUS), with mixing handled by Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, MESHUGGAH) and Grammy Award winning engineer Ted Jensen (ALICE IN CHAINS, DEFTONES, PANTERA).
“For 34 years, a creation called Eternal Nightmare has been making memories for people around the world. Now, it is time to create some new memories in 2022,” laments Killian. “I am very proud of the new music we created, and we are fortunate to have worked with some very creative people. Nothing too polished here, unless fragments of glass and broken razor blades are what you consider polished. I love to create, and we hope your heads explode when you hear the new VIO-LENCE!”
Alongside the announcement of the new EP, the band have released the first song from the upcoming EP; Flesh From Bone. “This is the first VIO-LENCE song I had written in close to 30 years,” admits founding guitarist Phil Demmel. “I wanted to keep some of those early Eternal Nightmare (debut album, 1988) qualities intact but infuse a lot of what I‘ve culled into my songwriting arsenal over the decades. Flesh From Bone has the frenetic picking/fingering riffs and the solo trade-offs that are pretty old-school, and I‘m also wearing my influences on my sleeve with a few EXODUS and SLAYER inspired riffs.”
Frontman Sean Killian adds, “Flesh From Bone reflects on the true suffering of man during the dark ages of history. Laws and rules of people like Vlad the Impaler were not to be broken, if you did your sentence would be impalement, or worse. To die in battle was to suffer.”
Watch the official lyric video for Flesh From Bone here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new EP below:
Track List:
1. Flesh From Bone
2. Screaming Always
3. Upon Their Cross
4. Gato Negro
5. Let the World Burn
Let The World Burn is set for release on March 4th via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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