Black Breath - Slaves Beyond Death (25.09.15)

[Räudi]

Seattle's BLACK BREATH has completed their third LP, Slaves Beyond Death, and is preparing the album for worldwide release this September through Southern Lord Recordings. Additionally, the band has been confirmed to rage the West Coast US alongside Goatsnake, Battalion of Saints and Obliterations in September as part of a West Coast Southern Lord package tour.

Slaves Beyond Death arrives three years after BLACK BREATH's 2012-released Sentenced To Life, a revered album of morbid metal anthems laced with a deadly allure that few could resist. A foul den of thrashing potency, reanimated hardcore muscle and icy death metal, it's a record that partly sets the tone for this nefarious third chapter of the band, but it's safe to say that Slaves Beyond Deathrepresents a harder, bleaker BLACK BREATH than ever before.

Recorded in the Winter months of 2014 at GodCity studio in Salem, Massachusetts with Kurt Ballou (Converge),Slaves Beyond Death delivers the best part of an hour of stern, unforgiving death metal that resonates with the absolute classics of the genre. The Seattle five-piece is entirely relentless in their intensity, presenting innumerable ferocious riffs across the eight songs, with wicked inventiveness at the heart of its might. Galloping, triumphant melodies reminiscent of Sweden lead in to grueling slammers that unravel at a torturer's pace, while the rasping death-rattles from vocalist Neil McAdams paint a vivid picture of unending suffering in life and beyond the grave. Devoid of self-serving technicality and bombast, Slaves Beyond Death works torrents of scorn in to lively, undeniably entertaining songwriting, an enviable quality that has been present in all of BLACK BREATH's material, and is certainly still the case now. With all of the tracks breaching the five-minute mark at least, and a storming crusade of an instrumental closer, BLACK BREATH is taking big strides forward with this album, and it is sure to be one of the highlights of the musical underworld in 2015.

Slaves Beyond Death's artwork was painted by Italy's Paolo Girardi, who most recently created stunning covers for Inquisition, Manilla Road and Bell Witch, and Southern Lord is once again the proud record label behind this monumental release, which will be available on September 25th on digital, CD and LP formats.

Slaves Beyond Death Track Listing:
1. Pleasure, Pain, Disease
2. Slaves Beyond Death
3. Reaping Flesh
4. Seed Of Cain
5. Arc Of Violence
6. A Place Of Insane Brutality
7. Burning Hate
8. Chains Of The Afterlife

Cover gibts auch schon im Netz:



Ich würde soweit gehen, den Vorgänger als mein Lieblings-halbstündiges-Abrissalbum zu bezeichnen, gemeinsam mit Reign in Blood, Vorfreude

 

[Anon12]

Das wird ein Fest! 2015 ist unglaublich...

Hier mal mit Logo:

 

[SHEOLDAEMON]

Die "Heavy Breathing" ist für mich nach wie vor mit das Beste, was neuere Bands mit dem HM2 Sound rausgebracht haben. Der Nachfolger war auch gut, hat aber bei mir nicht mehr so gezündet. Bin aber trotzdem sehr gespannt auf die kommende Scheibe!

 

[kylie]

Oh, da freu ich mich. Meine Lieblings-nicht-schwedischen-Schweden.

 

[deleted_53]

Freu mich auch. Immer ne Bank, diese Band.

 

[bloodred]

Gestern auch gelesen, dass da wieder was kommt. Superband!

 

[Crystal Mountain]

Das Cover ist spitze. Wäre ohne Logo / Albumtitel aber noch besser gewesen.

Bin gespannt.

 

[Bongripper]

Das Cover ist klasse, musikalisch bin ich ob des Zweitwerkes sehr skeptisch.

 

[deleted_227]

Die "Heavy Breathing" ist für mich nach wie vor mit das Beste, was neuere Bands mit dem HM2 Sound rausgebracht haben. Der Nachfolger war auch gut, hat aber bei mir nicht mehr so gezündet. Bin aber trotzdem sehr gespannt auf die kommende Scheibe!

Da reihe ich mich mit ein. Ansonsten bis dahin einfach mal die neue Deathrite hören, da krachts auch ordentlich im Gebälk:

 

[deleted_53]

BLACK BREATH PREMIERES THE TITLE TRACK TO IMPENDING THIRD LP, SLAVES BEYOND DEATH;

WEST COAST USA SOUTHERN LORD TOUR LOOMS


The crushing title track to the mighty third LP by Seattle’s Black Breath, Slaves Beyond Death, has just been issued as the first single from the highly anticipated record through an exclusive premiere at Noisey, as the album nears release through Southern Lord 25th September.


Arriving three years after the band’s 2012-released Sentenced To Life, a revered album of morbid metal anthems laced with a deadly allure that few could resist, it’s safe to say that Slaves Beyond Death represents a harder, bleaker Black Breaththan ever before. With every track on the record surpassing the five-minute mark, and several of them close to eight minutes in length, the five members deliver eight odes of tribulation. The title track “Slaves Beyond Death,” is a prime, gruelling example of the album's merciless nature. As Noisey remark, “While none of us are truly beyond death’s grip, Black Breath‘s lethal cocktail of ripping thrash, fetid death metal, and bloody hardcore would make an excellent soundtrack for whatever fucked-up activity eventually lands you in the morgue—and whatever hellish afterlife you may skid down into next.”


ENDURE THE SAVAGERY OF BLACK BREATH’S “SLAVES BEYOND DEATH”


Also responsible for the release of the band’s prior albums, Southern Lord is once again the label behind the impending release of Slaves Beyond Death, which will be issued worldwide on CD, and digital formats on September 25th. The vinyl version coming late October. Preorders will be released in the coming days.


Black Breath will return to the road heavily in support of the new LP, beginning with a Southern Lord West Coast US tour package also including Goatsnake, Battalion of Saints and Obliterations in September, which includes a hometown Seattle record release show for Slaves Beyond Death on September 26th. Stand by for a deluge of additional upcoming tour dates from the band through the remainder of the year and into next.


Black Breath on Southern Lord Tour w/ Goatsnake, Battalion Of Saints, Obliterations:

9/16/2015 Mystery Box - Los Angeles, CA [info]

9/17/2015 Alexs’ Bar - Long Beach, CA [info]

9/18/2015 The Garage - Ventura, CA [*no Goatsnake] [info]

9/19/2015 Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA [info]

9/20/2015 Club Red - Mesa, AZ [info]

9/22/2015 Elbo Room - San Francisco, CA [info]

9/23/2015 Boardwalk - Sacramento, CA [info]

9/24/2015 Catalyst Atrium - Santa Cruz, CA [info]

9/26/2015 Highline - Seattle, WA **BLACK BREATH record release show [info]

9/27/2015 Hawthorne Theater - Portland, OR [info]


Recorded in the Winter months of 2014 at GodCity studio in Salem, Massachusetts with Kurt Ballou (Converge), Slaves Beyond Death delivers the best part of an hour of stern, unforgiving death metal that resonates with the absolute classics of the genre. The Seattle five-piece is entirely relentless in their intensity, presenting innumerable ferocious riffs across the eight songs, with wicked inventiveness at the heart of its might. Galloping, triumphant melodies reminiscent of Sweden lead in to gruelling slammers that unravel at a torturer’s pace, while the rasping death-rattles from vocalist Neil McAdams paint a vivid picture of unending suffering in life and beyond the grave. Devoid of self-serving technicality and bombast, Slaves Beyond Death works torrents of scorn in to lively, undeniably entertaining songwriting, an enviable quality that has been present in the band’s earlier material, and is certainly still the case now. Completed with a mastering job by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege and paintings by Italy’s Paolo Girardi, Black Breath is taking big strides forward with this album, and it is sure to be one of the highlights of the musical underworld in 2015.



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[Sulfura]

Hui, guter Song

 

[TheSchubert666]

Ach ja, Black Breath.
"Heavy Breathing" und "Sentenced for Life" waren schon ein paar großartige Krachplatten, v.a. die zweite Scheibe ("Endless Corpse" killt sowas von...).
Ich bin gespannt.

 

[Crystal Mountain]

Guter Track. Und ja, die Deathrite ist auch fein. Könnte nen bissl abwechslungsreicher sein, macht aber trotzdem Spaß.

 

[SHEOLDAEMON]

Der Song macht Bock!

 

[Deathscent]

Die Truppe hab ich im April 2012 live im FZW gesehen. Waren erschreckend wenig Leute da aber die Jungs haben trotzdem unglaublich Gas gegeben.
Ich find die töfte. Platte wird verhaftet, da gibt es garkeine diskutieren.

So nah dran an dem was Dismember mit "Dreaming in Red " geschaffen haben, war bislang keine zweite Band ausser Black Breath mit diesem ähnlich gestrickten Song.

 

[SHEOLDAEMON]

Der Song ist der Oberburner! Dieses Riff! Wahn!!!

 

[Thrayus]

Sehr cooles Artwork. Wenn ich mich irre ist Black Breath Black-Crust, nicht wahr?

 

[bloodred]

Du irrst

 

[Thrayus]

Okay, stimmt Metal Archives sagt Death/Thrash/Crossover/Crust. Naja, fast.

 

[deleted_53]

Sehr cooles Artwork. Wenn ich mich irre ist Black Breath Black-Crust, nicht wahr?

Nope, nicht ganz. Schwedisch beeinflußter Death Metal mit leichter HC-Schlagseite (heuer weniger ausgeprägt).