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WARBRINGER: World Premiere Song & Video for “Remain Violent”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 14, 2017
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The highly anticipated WARBRINGER album Woe to the Vanquished will be released on March 31st 2017 via Napalm Records.

Music Choice is set to air the exclusive world premiere of “Remain Violent”, the latest single and video from WARBRINGER. “Remain Violent” will appear exclusively on Music Choice On Demand in the Brand New This Week category and on the Music Choice App on the Metal Video Channel.   The song will also be in heavy rotation on the Music Choice Metal Music Channel. For more information on Music Choice log on to www.musicchoice.com or download the Music Choice app smarturl.it/musicchoiceapp.

Frontman John Kevill comments on the video:
“‘Remain Violent’ is a headbanging stomper of a track anchored around a really killer riff. Probably the most immediate and instantly memorable song off Woe to the Vanquished and sure to become a live favorite.The song deals with the increasingly militaristic behavior of the police in recent times, and the chorus line is a play on ‘You have the right to remain silent.’Crank it up and bang your fucking head! Remain Violent!”

Watch the music video premiere HERE!

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The band’s official video for the first single “Silhouettes” can be viewed HERE, and the second single from Woe to the Vanquished entitled “Shellfire” can be streamed HERE.

Want to get a look behind the scenes of the recording process of Woe to the Vanquished? The band has released a special extended making-of the album video. Check it out HERE.

Woe to the Vanquished was carefully crafted over a period of time, the album was produced and mixed by Mike Plottnikoff (Fear Factory, In Flames), mastered by Howie Weinberg (Slayer, Pantera) with cover art by the esteemed  Andreas Marschall (Sodom, Blind Guardian, Obituary).

Pre-order your copy of Woe to the Vanquished at the Napalm Records Webstore HERE.

Woe to the Vanquished will be available as
– Regular Jewel Case Edition
– 1LP Gatefold Edition (black and other coloured editions)
– Super Deluxe Wooden Box Warchest Edition (CD, exclusive 2 track 7” single, flag, band logo dog tags) only available via the Napalm Records webstores in the US and Europe – strictly limited to 500 copies!

WARBRINGER Release First Song & Music Video for Track “Silhouettes”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 20, 2017
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WARBRINGER definitely are one of the most aurally devastating bands in the scene today and make a triumphant step forward on their upcoming record, Woe to the Vanquished. On March 31st they deliver their monumental 5th full-length and Napalm Records debut.

To shorten the waiting time WARBRINGER unleashes the first ripping track from Woe to the Vanquished today! The band are more than proud to release the first song and music video, “Silhouettes”, directed by Orie McGinness (Enlighten Creative Studio) and produced by Shan Dan Horen (Shadow Born Group).

Check out the exclusive music video premiere HERE!

John Kevill gives a deeper insight into the first song “Silhouettes”:

This song, the album opener, is a blazing and intense number; we wanted the album to open with pure annihilation. I had the lyric in my head and the frantic riff under the verse since the beginning of 2014, and I am very pleased that it exists as a full song now.

The idea for the song came from a particularly chilling detail found at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; when the atomic bombs went off the shadows of people whose bodies were vaporized still remain burned onto the walls and the ground where they once stood. To me, this is goddamn horrifying. I thought – “What if the souls of those dead remain trapped in the shadows?” I wanted to have the song written from a future where civilization has failed, the Earth is in ruins and the few remaining survivors live a horrible existence. The untold millions of shadows from this future, burnt into stone, look back at us in the present time and judge us for bringing about the apocalypse that, though we saw it coming, we did nothing to avoid.

The way I see it, we continue funding weaponry that keeps getting more and more devastating (search “satan-2” if you think this issue is some relic), and leadership seems on a sharp downward trend as well. Not the ingredients for a positive outcome. Remember, it only takes one mistake, once, and everything everyone has ever built, written, painted, all music, all culture, every ounce of human achievement is gone, in a single blinding flash. Like it or not, this is the world we live in today, and entering 2017 the delicate balance tips and sways more and more.
So, Happy New Year. Enjoy the time we have left, and fucking thrash. Woe to the Vanquished.
We’re Ghosts!

Woe to the Vanquished has been carefully crafted over period of time, and the album was produced and mixed by Mike Plottnikoff (Fear Factory, In Flames), mastered by Howie Weinberg (Slayer, Pantera) with cover art by the esteemed  Andreas Marschall (Sodom, Blind Guardian, Obituary).

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The band has released a special extended making-of the album video. Watch it HERE!

Just in time for their album release March 31st, the band will be hitting the road all over Europe in Spring and Summer, including already confirmed festivals like Spain’s Resurrection Fest, Slovenia’s Metal Days and Devilstone in Lithuania, with more to be announced.

Take a look at all upcoming WARBRINGER tour dates listed below:

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01.04.17 UK – Edinburgh / Heavy Scotland Fest
02.04.17 UK –  Manchester / Rebellion
03.04.17 UK –  Birmingham / Mama Roux’s
04.04.17 UK –  London / Underworld
05.04.17 BE –  Hasselt / Muziekodroom
06.04.17 NL –  Tilburg / 013
07.04.17 DE –  Hamburg / Logo
08.04.17 DK –  Aarhus / Royal Metal Festival
09.04.17 SE –  Gothenburg / Sticky Fingers
11.04.17 FI –  Helsinki / Tavastia
13.04.17 SE –  Stockholm / Fryshuset Klubben
14.04.17 DK –  Copenhagen / Pumpehuset
15.04.17 DE –  Berlin / Cassiopeia
16.04.17 DE –  Markneukirchen / Framus & Warwick Concert Hall
17.04.17 DE –  Munich / Feierwerk
19.04.17 AT –  Vienna / Arena
20.04.17 SI –  Ljubljana / Orto Bar
21.04.17 IT –  Brescia / Circolo Colony
22.04.17 CH –  Pratteln / Z7
23.04.17 DE –  Saarbruecken / Garage
24.04.17 FR –  Nantes / Ferrailleur
26.04.17 ES –  Madrid / Caracol
27.04.17 ES –  Barcelona / Salamandra 1
28.04.17 FR –  Puget / Le Rats
29.04.17 FR –  Paris / Petit Bain
30.04.17 DE –  Essen / Turock

Woe to the Vanquished will be available as
– Regular Jewel Case Edition
– 1LP Gatefold Edition (black and other coloured editions)
– Super Deluxe Wooden Box Warchest Edition (CD, exclusive 2 track 7” single, flag, band logo dog tags) only available via the Napalm Records webstores in the US and Europe – strictly limited to 500 copies!
Full track listing:

1    Silhouettes
2    Woe to the Vanquished
3    Remain Violent
4    Shellfire
5    Descending Blade
6    Spectral Asylum
7    Divinity of Flesh
8    When the Guns Fell Silent

Bonus 7″ Single track listing:
1    Evil Dead (Death Cover featuring Chris Monroy of Skeletal Remains)
2    Arc Lite (Coroner Cover featuring Jadran ‘Conan’ Gonzalez of Exmortus)

WARBRINGER Unveil First Album Details Including Title, Album Artwork & Release Date

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 14, 2016
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WARBRINGER has continued to evolve throughout its four albums into the one of the most aurally devastating bands in the scene today. On March 31st via Napalm Records, they deliver their monumental 5th record entitled Woe to the Vanquished and make a triumphant step forward on this record–it’s an absolute must for ANYONE who’s into metal today.

WARBRINGER singer John Kevill describes the new album musically:
“For the music on this record we re-focused ourselves after a lot of the experiments on Empires Collapse, and decided we wanted to make a record that is start-to-finish more merciless, ruthless, and cruel, but also maintains some of the more melodic and progressive sense. What we ended up with is a record that has a lot of traits of classic thrash but also a lot of extreme metal, and a rather unique version of that blend. It’s overall faster and meaner than anything else we’ve put out, but also has our biggest and most ambitious song, the 11-minute “When the Guns Fell Silent” to close the record.”

Woe to the Vanquished has been carefully crafted over period of time, and the album was produced and mixed by Mike Plottnikoff (Fear Factory, In Flames), mastered by Howie Weinberg (Slayer, Pantera) with cover art by the esteemed  Andreas Marschall (Sodom, Blind Guardian, Obituary).

Kevill explains the stunning album artwork, “It is directly based on a photograph from the end of the First World War–a grim monument, a pyramid of 12,000 German spiked helmets, right in the middle of New York City. What struck me about the image is firstly how morbid it seems to be celebrating 12,000 dead men and calling it victory.”

Kevill, who is studying to be a history professor, comments on the title, Woe to the Vanquished and the story behind it: “The title “Woe to the Vanquished” comes from early Roman history–before they were the huge empire they became. In 390 BC, a host of Gauls led by a warlord called Brennus attacked Rome, and captured all the city except the Capitoline Hill. From this hill the defeated Romans made a bargain, they would pay 1,000 pounds of gold for the Gallic army to leave the city with no further bloodshed. The Romans bring the gold before Brennus, who uses his own scales to measure it. On the Gaul’s scales, the Roman’s thousand pounds of gold measured to be less, which led the Romans to complain that the scale was rigged (it probably was). Responding to this, Brennus speaks “Vae Victis” (Woe to the Vanquished) and throws his sword on the counterweight. Because the Romans lost, they have to pay the rigged sum of gold as well as the weight of the sword, to add insult to injury. The irony here is that vowing this type of humiliation would never happen again, Rome went on to become an ancient war machine conquering and subjugating most of the old world. On the record “Woe to the Vanquished” is spoken in an ironic, mocking tone–the defeated are trampled and time marches on, uncaring, and forgets they ever existed.”

“One of the great things about heavy metal as a genre is you can express tougher subject material than “I met a (boy/girl) and it was (happy/sad)”. I looked for the most monolithic evil I could find to write about with this destructive, intense music… and I did not have to look any further than reality.  Forget Satan, that’s a children’s story. Real evil is in the hearts of men.”

The band has released a special extended making-of the album video. Watch it HERE.

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Pre-Orders will be available shortly!

Hot on the heels for their album release, the band will be hitting the road all over Europe in Spring and Summer, including confirmed festivals like Spain’s Resurrection Fest, Slovenia’s Metal Days and Devilstone in Lithuania, with more to be announced.