METAL ALLEGIANCE: ‘Gift Of Pain’ Video Featuring Randy Blythe Released

Heavy metal is more than a genre, more than an attitude and certainly more than whatever cheap epithets are dismissively thrown at it by clueless critics. At its best, metal is a lifestyle, a community, a tribe uniting people across cultural, economic and philosophical divides with the primal pulse of bombastic and majestic expression.

Never before has one entity encapsulated so many components of the heavy metal community’s continued vibrancy and dedication to the lifestyle than the collective fittingly called METAL ALLEGIANCE.

METAL ALLEGIANCE will release their self-titled debut album this Friday, September 18th via Nuclear Blast. In support of this upcoming release, the band has released the music video for ‘Gift Of Pain’ (feat. Randy Blythe, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Gary Holt). Check it out below:

“METAL ALLEGIANCE” tracklist:

Gift Of Pain (feat. Randy Blythe, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Gary Holt)
Let Darkness Fall (feat. Troy Sanders, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Mark Menghi, Rex Brown, Randy Blythe)
Can’t Kill The Devil (feat. Chuck Billy, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Phil Demmel, Andreas Kisser)
Dying Song (feat. Phil Anselmo, Alex Skolnick, Mark Menghi, Mike Portnoy)
Scars (feat. Mark Osegueda, Cristina Scabbia, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy)
Destination: Nowhere (feat. Matthew K Heafy, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy)
Wait Until Tomorrow (feat. Doug Pinnick, Jamey Jasta, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy)
Triangulum (feat. Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Misha Mansoor, Ben Weinman, Charlie Benante, Phil Demmel, Matthew K. Heafy, Ron “Bumblefoot“ Thal)
Pledge Of Allegiance (feat. Mark Osegueda, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Charlie Benante, Gary Holt, Andreas Kisser)
We Rock (feat. Mark Osegueda, Chris Jericho, Tim “Ripper“ Owens, Alissa White-Gluz, Chuck Billy, Steve “Zetro“ Souza, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Andreas Kisser, Phil Demmel, Gary Holt)