Influential metal quintet UNEARTH has begun work on its new album.
The follow up to the band’s acclaimed 2006 release III: In the Eyes of Fire
is scheduled to drop this October via Metal Blade Records.
UNEARTH is currently recording at MA’s System Recording Studios with
producer Adam Dutkiewicz, while the album’s drum tracks are being laid to
tape by drummer Derek Kerswill (Kingdom of Sorrow, Seemless) at Zing
Studios. The as-yet-untitled record is said to feature the band’s “most
dynamic material to date,” combining strong tension and release, abundant
guitar solos and a bulldozing power-groove.
“
HEAVY METAL SHRED MAYHEM!
NOW WITH 50%
MORE GUITAR SOLOS!! If the
new Unearth songs were laundry detergent, then this is what it would say on
the box,” dishes
UNEARTH lead guitarist Buz McGrath. “Fortunately for all
you metal maniacs, it’s not laundry soap but a mind-blowing journey
consisting of epic mosh and shred, so we had to call in the one man who
could wrangle such a massive beast – Adam Dutkiewicz. We are very excited
to be working with him again and between 40 oz. chugging and doing burn-outs
in Ken’s ’82 Corvette, we are recording what will definitely be the best
album of our career.”
A “teaser” look at
UNEARTH working in the studio can be accessed via
the band’s MySpace page at this location .
Additional looks at the recording of the album, including fly-on-the-wall
video footage, riffs and excerpts of new music will be made available in the
coming weeks.
UNEARTH formed in 1998 and in the decade since, has become one of the
U.S.’ most proven metal bands, shifting over 400,000 units over the course
of its career. The group’s tireless touring schedule has seen it perform
alongside some of the genre’s most revered names (including tours with Black
Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne as part of Ozzfest [2004 and 2006] and a 2007 U.S.
tour as hand-picked direct support for thrash titans Slayer), and also
headline venues the world over, consistently helping give rise to some of
extreme music’s fresh blood in the process. In 2007,
UNEARTH contributed a
song, titled “The Chosen”, to the popular film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon
Movie Film for Theaters, appearing on the movie’s standout soundtrack amidst
contributions from Andrew W.K., Mastodon, The Hold Steady and more.
On August 1,
UNEARTH will make a special main stage appearance at the
2008 Wacken Open Air Festival. “Wacken” is the largest exclusively metal
music festival in the world and will see
UNEARTH share the stage with Iron
Maiden, At the Gates, Carcass and more.