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Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal, CD kiadvány, 2025-ös album.
Canadian thrash metal veterans SACRIFICE return in 2025 with their first new album in more than sixteen years. Volume Six, the band’s sixth album overall and second since reforming in 2006, features ten new originals and a cover paying homage to the Toronto scene from which they originally emerged. Working once again with engineer Darius Szczepaniak – who was also at the helm for SACRIFICE’s 2009 effort The Ones I Condemn – Volume Six was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Phase One Studios in Scarborough, Ontario.
Tracked over a period of sessions between September 2023 and May 2024, the eleven-song offering was produced by vocalist/guitarist Rob Urbinati and features the band’s original lineup, with lead guitarist Joe Rico, bassist Scott Watts, and drummer Gus Pynn as well as Urbinati. They are one of, if not the only, 1980s thrash band that still has its original lineup intact and playing together, and on Volume Six, the band hits it out of the park.
The songs on Volume Six run the gamut from speedy, breakneck thrash (“Comatose,” “Explode,” “We Will Not Survive”) to more nuanced, layered, metallic compositions (“Underneath Millenia,” “Your Hunger For War”). Two instrumental tracks on the album show yet another side of the band’s songwriting while still clearly being SACRIFICE songs: “Lunar Eclipse” is a showcase for Rico and Urbinati’s excellent twin guitar leads, while “Black Hashish” is SACRIFICE at their most psychedelic.
The album’s final track, “Trapped In A World,” is a cover of ‘80s Toronto hardcore band Direct Action, a group that had a massive influence on the members of SACRIFICE during their formative years. The song features guest vocals by Youth Youth Youth vocalist and Toronto music legend Brian Taylor, who operated the Diabolic Force label in the eighties and produced the band’s first three albums, bringing everything full-circle three decades later with his appearance here.
SACRIFICE played a prominent role in the 1980s underground metal scene in Toronto, and along with Voivod, Razor, and Annihilator, is considered one of the „Big 4” of Canadian thrash metal. The band released four studio albums on Diabolic Force in Canada, Metal Blade Records in the US, and Roadrunner Records in Europe before parting ways in 1993. After coming back together to play a reunion concert in 2006, the quartet released their fifth studio album, The Ones I Condemn, in 2009. Since reforming, SACRIFICE has played major international festivals, including Belgium’s Alcatraz Festival, Germany’s Keep it True, Peru’s Ai-apaec, Maryland Deathfest and California Deathfest in the United States, and both the 2012 and 2018 editions of Japan’s True Thrash Festival, amongst others.
YouTube video:
„Missile”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq0WtMSz-80
OFFICIAL: https://www.youtube.com/@SacrificeOfficial/videos
Felvételek:
1. Comatose 03:21
2. Antidote Of Poison 04:08
3. Missile 03:26
4. Underneath Millennia 04:26
5. Your Hunger For War 05:03
6. Incoming Mass Extinction 02:01
7. Lunar Eclipse 02:02
8. Explode 03:50
9. Black Hashish 06:33
10. We Will Not Survive 03:54
11. Trapped In A World (feat. Brian Taylor) 02:09
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