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Canadian metal legends ANVIL are about to enter the studio to begin recording their new LP. Earlier today (Monday, August 9), the band's guitarist/vocalist Steve "Lips" Kudlow tweeted: "Starting our recording of our 19th studio album in Germany tomorrow!! Nice to be back in Europe!!"
ANVIL released its latest album, "Legal At Last", in February 2020 via AFM Records as a digipak
Reunited San Francisco Bay Area thrashers VIO-LENCE debuted a new song, apparently titled "Upon Their Cross", during their concert this past Friday (August 6) at Strummer's in Fresno, California. The track will appear on the band's upcoming EP, "Let The World Burn", which is due in early 2022 via Metal Blade Records. The effort was recorded at Trident Studios in Pacheco, California with producer Juan Urteaga, who has previously worked with TESTAMENT, MACHINE HEAD and EXODUS
Dave Mustaine has shared a short video of him recording what he described as the "last vocal take" for the upcoming sixteenth MEGADETH studio album. He added in a caption: "Are ya ready?"
Last month, Mustaine confirmed that the new MEGADETH album will be titled "The Sick, The Dying And The Dead".
After some years of silence, Los Angeles thrashers Bonded By Blood have returned and announced a new lineup on their Facebook page. The band, who has not released an album since 2012's The Aftermath, now includes half of the original lineup (guitarists Alex Lee and Juan Juarez and vocalist Jose Barrales), who are joined by bassist Jerry Garcia and drummer Stephen Ramirez.
The band issued the following statement on their Facebook page:
Last couple of months, German thrashers Bonded (feat. ex-Sodom, Assassin, etc. members), were occupied with the new album recordings at the Rambado Recordings studio. Details will be unveiled in coming weeks.
Statement from the band: "Hello Bonded thrashers, after months at the Rambado Recordings studio, a great photosession with Sebastian "Konz" Konopka and an amazing new cover artwork
Ahead of tomorrow's official digital release of their Thunder Over London EP, thrashers Gama Bomb now present a brand new music video for the title track. The clip was directed and edited by Kiran Acharya.
About the song, vocalist Philly Byrne says: "Thunder Over London" is a song about the waste and evil of nuclear weapons. We live in a world where thousands of nukes are ready to launch any second, but nobody writes songs or makes movies about it any more.
U.K. thrash legends Solitary have revealed the new video "Spawn Of Hate," the fourth video to hail from their new album for Metalville Records, The Truth Behind The Lies. "Spawn Of Hate" is one of the fastest, most intense songs the band have ever recorded, and the raw performance footage captures that true thrash spirit that will take you crashing back to the '80s heydays.
DESTRUCTION frontman Schmier says that the band's founding guitarist Michael "Mike" Sifringer has "disconnected" from the rest of the group and is not featured on DESTRUCTION's just-completed new studio album.
Schmier addressed Sifringer's status with DESTRUCTION just a couple of weeks after the band performed without Mike at the Area 53 Festival in Leoben, Austria.
In a new interview with Finland's Janne Vuorela, DESTRUCTION frontman Schmier was asked if he and his bandmates have used the coronavirus pandemic to work on material for the follow-up to 2019's "Born To Perish" album. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "For a long time, I wasn't ready. And last year, I didn't even try to think about a new album.
In another Cameo video found below, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine commented on the band's forthcoming album, which he recently revealed is called The Sick, The Dying And The Dead.
Responding to a fan named Kevin, Mustaine said "The record is almost done, if you can believe that. I'm just listening to the last little bits right now. Kiko's (Loureiro / guitar stuff is all done. We should be turning this in any day now.