Name: Amon Amarth "Masters Of War" by Metal Blade Records in orion
Duration: 4 min 34 s
Description: "Masters Of War" from "The Crusher" (Bonus Edition).

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Amon Amarth - As Loke Falls

Candlelight Records today confirms June 24th as the North American release date for IX, the new album from CORROSION OF CONFORMITY. Produced by the band and long-time comrade John Custer, the album and lead single “On Your Way” will be available for preorders via iTunes, Amazon, and other popular outlets beginning May 13th.

Blabbermouth has been reporting on the recording of the album since early January.  Video footage filmed at the recording studio, including vocalist Mike Dean and drummer Reed Mullin laying down vocal tracks, plus guitarist Woodroe Weatherman tracking some of the albums killer riffs, has been seen by fans around the globe. “The making of IX was drawn out because of us having to step away to do other projects,” comments Dean. “I think being forced to step away kept us hungry and then being back on the case with deadlines casting a shadow gave us a ‘failure is no option’ vibe and that really helped the final product.”

“This album is another step forward for us,” adds Weatherman.  “It seems like we keep heading more and more toward our rawer live sound with the studio recordings.”

Having recently returned from a successful European tour, the band is gearing up for the album’s release and a year full of nonstop touring. “CORROSION OF CONFORMITY are very much firing on all cylinders,” noted Terrorizer Magazine preceding the trio of English dates that were part of the larger Euro tour that had the band visiting ten countries for the first time in more than a year. “We had some good shows,” shares Dean. “To go back to Paris for the first time in years, without a new album, and have the type of response we had just shows me that there is new interest in the more creative heavier rock.  And that this younger group of people is actually checking us out is huge to me.”

The band surprised European audiences with some new material from IX. “We had ‘On Your Way’ in the set and people were jamming along,” notes Dean. “It’s up tempo but syncopated. I thought it fit right in even though technically we were still working it out.” “We did sneak in some new material on the European tour,” asserts Weatherman. “It’s great to see folks digging on stuff they have never heard before.”

Quiet for nearly five years after the release of 2005’s In The Arms Of God, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY regrouped in 2010.  These original jam sessions quickly gave way to the trio’s participation at late summer’s The Power Of The Riff Festival and later 2011’s Maryland Death Fest.  The band’s commitment to the stage, with hundreds of shows performed since 2010, is surely contributing to their chops in the studio. Without doubt, Dean, Weatherman, and Mullin have revitalized their sonic muse. And media and fans concur. “Corrosion of Conformity displays a command of style far beyond anything their 1985 selves could have imagined,” noted Decibel Magazine on review of 2012’s self-titled album. Added Pitchfork, “the trio sounds as commanding as it ever has.”

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY released their self-titled album via Candlelight Records to high praise late February 2012. It was the first new material by the North Carolina trio since 2005. “Corrosion Of Conformity is what you want out of a comeback record – not just a reclamation of lost vigor but a meaningful update on a vintage sound,” said Pitchfork. The album debuted on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart at position 157 and impacted CMJ’s Loud Rock chart at position 8 on its debut week before working its way up to position 1. It remained on the magazine’s popular radio chart Top 10 for eight consecutive weeks. The label reissued the band’s Eye For An Eye (including previously unavailable EP Six Song With Mike Singing) early November 2012. Blabbermouth called it “one of the hallmarks of street ‘core.’” It was followed by the free release of Scion A/V’s Megalodon EP. Writing for IX started in the early months of 2013 with demoing and recording starting by summer’s end. Completed in January, IX clocks in at nearly 45 minutes. Sludge, doom, punk… it’s all in the grooves that fans have come to expect from the band.

Preorders for both CD and vinyl formats will be available shortly via Candlelight’s official web stores.  Watch for special bundles via the band in the coming weeks.

IX Track Listing:
1. Brand New Sleep
2. Elphyn
3. Denmark Vesey
4. The Nectar
5. Interlude
6. On Your Way
7. Trucker
8. The Hanged Man
9. Tarquinius Superbus
10. Who You Need To Blame
11. The Nectar Revised

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY has confirmed a number of limited performances on the east coast this month beginning this Friday at The Pour House Music Hall in Raleigh.  The band will perform at Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn on April 26th, the Ottobar (with High on Fire and Eyehategod) in Baltimore on April 27th, and wrap the month up with a show at Café 611 in Frederick (MD) on April 28.

Formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1982, the Decibel Magazine Hall of Famers CORROSION OF CONFORMITY helped transform heavy music.  The band has influenced countless bands and today remains humble about their accomplishments.

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http://www.facebook.com/corrosionofconformity
http://candlelightrecordsusa.com

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - "ON YOUR WAY"

War Eternal

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"Violence" from the album 'Inked In Blood' available October 27, 2014 (NA) / October 24 (Ger/Benelux/Finland) / October 27 (UK/World) on CD/Deluxe CD/2xLP/Digital/Deluxe Digital via Relapse Records.

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Obituary - Violence

Armored Saint "Win Hands Down" from the album "Win Hands Down"

Armored Saint "Win Hands Down"

Lyrics:

Endure The Pain


Verse 1

They wheel me in 
Lying flat on my  back
I am  Helpless 
In the event of attack

Scars map the journey 
The lines of my pain,
Counting the minutes
Like links in a chain.

Pre-chorus

I can’t breathe 
I can’t take the pain
You gotta help me
Or I will go insane

I said I can’t breathe
I can’t take this pain



Chorus 1

Endure the storm, face the fire,
One more night on the razor wire.
Steel cuts through my skin,
Broken, battered, stitched within,

Within….
Within….

Chorus 1 ending

Endure the night, embrace the pain,
Through the darkness, strength we gain

 








Verse 2

They saw through my bone
Blades cut into my flesh
Take out my beating heart
Who knows will it restart

They close me up
Mop my blood off the floor
“I wonder if he will live?”
I hear them say outside my door



Pre-chorus 2

I can’t breathe 
I can’t take the pain
You gotta help me
Or I will go insane

I can’t breathe 
I couldn’t take this pain
But you didn’t help me
And now I have gone insane


Chorus 2

Endure the storm, face the fire,
One more night on the razor wire.
Steel cuts through my skin,
Broken, battered, stitched within,
Blades of agony carve the night,
But I won’t lose the light
Endure the night, embrace the pain
Through the darkness, strength we gain.


Chorus 2 ending
Endure the storm, face the fire,
One more night on the razor wire.
  Endure the storm, face the fire,
One more night on the razor wire.


Outro

I am still here
I am back from hell
Stronger than before
Broken free from the spell

Endure The Pain

Avatar - Torn Apart

"American Way" from "Still Ignorant (1987-1997) Live".

Sacred Reich "American Way"

"The Pursuit Of Vikings" from the "Fate of Norns".

Amon Amarth "The Pursuit Of Vikings"

The title track from "Twilight Of The Thunder God".

Amon Amarth "Twilight Of The Thunder God"

"Masters Of War" from "The Crusher" (Bonus Edition).

Amon Amarth "Masters Of War"

In Flames - Colony

Amon Amarth-Runes To My Memory

ARCH ENEMY   The World Is Yours

Amon Amarth - The Hero

Metal Blade Records history by Dan Slessor:
Founded upon owner Brian Slagel's enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982 Metal Blade has brought wave after wave of powerful, innovative, and often genre-defining music to the ever-hungry metal masses. It is this ethos that has seen Metal Blade build up a stunning and diverse catalogue, weather the various storms facing any independent label, and in an age of declining record sales boast the most successful years of its existence as it strides into its fourth decade.

What perhaps makes this achievement all the more notable is the fact that Slagel never even intended to start a label. Working in an LA record store and writing for various publications, Slagel was acutely aware that many great bands in the local metal scene were being ignored, and he decided to release a compilation of tracks drawn from these ranks. "There were a lot of really good bands and I was just bummed out that nobody could hear them. It just seemed like I could help them out and have some fun at the same time, and that compilation was the first Metal Massacre," he states. Collating tracks from then unknown bands including Ratt, Bitch, Cirith Ungol, and Metallica amongst others, the compilation sold out immediately. "How important is Metal Blade to our career? They're only the reason we are enjoying the worldwide success we have today," states Metallica's James Hetfield. "Without Brian's openness to some raunchy teens with a crap sounding cassette tape we would be who knows where, and playing who knows what!" With the popularity of the tape spurring Slagel on, the first seeds of Metal Blade were sown. "After the success of those compilations I just started putting out records of bands that I was friends with, but without ever really intending it to be a label at all," he explains. "After I put out four or five releases I started to feel like something was happening, and I decided to quit the record store and quit college and see where it went."

Battling through the first few lean years, when the label consisted solely of Slagel working out of his mom's poorly ventilated garage in the San Fernando Valley, it gradually grew in both revenue and stature. Within a few years Metal Blade would go on to release the debuts of Slayer, Armored Saint, Trouble, and Corrosion Of Conformity amongst others, fanning the flames of the burgeoning metal scene and launching careers of bands that would go onto reap global success. "Without Metal Blade, there is a damn good chance we never would've made it out of L.A," says Slayer's Kerry King. "That was the one bit of luck we needed. You can be the most awesome band on the scene, and if no one notices you, you don't catch on. And Brian Slagel is still one of the biggest metalheads I know!" This genuine love and devotion to metal is central to the relationship many of the artists have with Metal Blade, and King Diamond credits much of its relevance and strength to this passion. "I refer to it as having 'boots on the ground'," the mighty Dane states. "It's not like a major label where some people might be into what you're doing but a lot of them just see it as a job – there's a genuine love for metal there. Through staying true to that and doing their own thing they've carved out a very specific niche that they control, and as an artist it's wonderful to be a part of that."over the years. Clearly without those people we couldn't do what we do, and to everyone out there who has helped us along by being a fan we are so very grateful to you."

Read more: http://www.metalblade.com/us/about-us/

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