Metal Shock Finland (World Assault )

Thrash metal fans, pay attention. February 7, 2025 is the day. That is the day when “Gods And Creators”, the new album by the Swiss band KLAW, will be released. The brand new work, produced by V.O. Pulver and the band themselves in the Little Creek Studios, will be released via El Puerto Records. KLAW is currently presenting us with a great playthrough video of the track “Press Start”, which can already be seen and heard in its album version.

Order the album here: El Puerto Records Shop KLAW – Gods And Creators

You can follow KLAW’s guitar work here:

At the beginning of the year, KLAW presented a second hit from the new album, “Carousel Of Flames”. Watch the video here:

• Video “Carousel Of Flames”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wWTSRJ67lg
• Streaming “Carousel Of Flames”: save-it.cc/epr/carousel-of-flames

Guitarist Pat on the music: “Carousel of Flames” was written just before the studio recordings and it is the only song that had never been played together within the band before. My basic idea was to write a catchy, simply structured track alongside the otherwise rather complex songs. A good melody in the chorus, a pumping straight forward verse riff, held together by a Swedish metal riff. The formula “less is sometimes more” worked and the song quickly developed into one of the most popular tracks within the band.

Singer Jonas on the lyrics: The soul of a child… So pure, so naive, so fragile…The song addresses the impressionability of children and the danger that arises from this.

Technically sophisticated, melodic, with groove, tempo, fat riffs and aggressive vocals – that’s what KLAW stands for with their new album “Gods And Creators”.

Streaming “Press Start”: save-it.cc/epr/press-start

Guitarist Chasper says about the track: For me, “Press Start” was like creating a “melodic Slayer track.” My songwriting typically features switches between double-time and half-time, various key changes, and twin lead sections between the solos.

Singer Jonas comments on the lyrics:”Press Start” tells a story about a young boy left by his father… He grows up scared by the fact that his father never wanted to know him… In the end as an adult he becomes just like his father, leaving his sick wife and his child behind. It‘s about the question if children are meant to grow up becoming their parents and the fact, that children who are raised by a parent that has suffered from trauma have a much higher chance to also suffer from trauma often even directly because of this parent.

“Gods And Creators” tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Press Start
3. Gods And Creators
4. Carousel Of Flames
5. Swell
6. Pictures Of My Past
7. Senseless
8. Walk The Line
9. Fearbreeder
10. Curse Of The Blessed
11. Stay Sit Roll Fetch
12. Alcoholic

The band says about the new album: “Gods And Creators” is the result of many years of collaboration between the new line-up of KLAW. With the line-up changes on vocals and guitar, 11 songs have materialized in a forge of various influences from the five members… a new chapter in the history of KLAW: “Gods and Creators!”

Bay Area meets Alpenland – The Swiss KLAW have sharpened their claws and deliver a whole dozen timeless hymns on their second album, which were forged in the Little Creek Studio and which have what it takes to absolutely enrich the new generation of thrash metal albums.

KLAW is a metal machine from Switzerland that plays modern thrash at a high level. Technically sophisticated, melodic, with groove, tempo, fat riffs and aggressive vocals. The band consists of five experienced and first-class musicians who show the world a new dimension of thrash metal! Aggressive, complex and yet catchy, dark and profound and at the same time full of adrenaline – KLAW inspires with energetic live performances and gets the mosh pit boiling and everyone headbanging!

Line-up:
Pat Müller – Guitars, Backgrounds Vocals
Chasper Wanner – Guitars
Jonas Friedli – Vocals
Reto Bachmann – Drums
Dani Bürkli – Bass, Backgrounds Vocals