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This Is Hell - New Album Details, New Song Online


Black Mass, the new upcoming album from Long Island-based hardcore veterans This Is Hell will be released on October 11 via Rise Records.

The follow-up to 2010's Weight Of The World was recorded earlier this summer at Killingsworth Studio in Valley Village, California with producer Tomas Costanza.

One of the new tracks, called "Black Mass" has been made available for streaming over at Soundcloud.




Commented This Is Hell guitarist Rick Jimenez: "The new album takes the crossover and metal influences from last album to much greater extremes and the end product was Black Mass, by far the heaviest and thrashiest songs we've written and recorded.

Lyrically, this album touches on issues we haven't dove into before. Social injustice as a whole is a recurring theme. Persistence and empowerment are familiar themes with us that I've revisited, but with an even more aggressive outlook than before."

He added: "The artwork was done by Will Blood, an amazing English illustrator/artist that we've worked with on shirts and designs before. The concept came from some lyrics and underlying themes from the album and Will really took the ball and ran with it. Whether someone takes the art at sheer superficial face value, or really absorbs the details and subtleties of it, it's an extremely powerful piece of artwork. I feel the same way about the music and especially the lyrics on this new record."




Black Mass tracklisting:

01. Acid Rain
02. Black History
03. Salt the Earth
04. Black Mass
05. The Wars: Part I
06. Mi Nombre
07. The Last Outlaw
08. Demons
09. The Reckoning
10. The Wars: Part II

Source: allrisefortheblackmass.com
Posted: 04.09.2011 by Cynic Metalhead



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