FINAL DEPRAVITY - Thrash Metal for the next generation from the Ruhr Area, Germany. New album Thrash Is Just The Beginning out now via Nihilistic Empire Records / New Music Distribution. Listen to the entire album at http://finaldepravity.bandcamp.com/!

Thrash Is Just The Beginning has been produced by Sascha Risseler and mastered by Dennis Koehne (a.o. Sodom, Exumer, The Very End). 

The album artwork and band photography come from the renowned design studio Killustrations (www.killustrations.com, a.o. Dew-Scented, Nervecell, Hackneyed, The Very End), run by German artist Bjoern Goosses. 

Thrash Is Just The Beginning

Scar The Martyr Trinity Of Lies

The eleven sessions - Don't be a. sad lizard  (1.59x)

The lyrics are based on a true story how I got lost in a hood in a city with many stairs and walked 20K steps and gone up 40 floors. 
This happened two days after my medication doubled and I started to get disoriented. 
This is scary. You are afraid of yourself. You can't trust yourself. And this goes on and on without any improvement. 

*Please be cautious when taking any medications*

Lyrics:

You start your journey from your home
point A will end at B
You think that your ETA 
In minutes maximum 

IS

Fifteen

You start your trip to retrieve a package
The simplest mission that might be
But you don't know what kind of wreckage 
This path will give 
To your

SANITY

SANITY

You walk in circles pondering 
If this road will ever end
You're going up
You're going down
You're searching for the end
Going to
NOWHERE 

You start to cry, to cry for help
You don't know where you are
You want to leave 
To run away
You're starting to be getting
Pretty 
MAD

You went up forty floors
Walked 20 thousand steps
You're whimpering, your mind is lost
You dream of

RESTFUL

DEATH

A RESTFUL DEATH


And when you reach your destination 
You realize it all was wrong
You suffered for two hours only
to discover that
GPS IS GONE
IN-SANE

INSANE

AND MY LOCATION WAS ALWAYS 
IN-CORRECT 

INCORRECT 

LOCATION

GPS HAS GONE
INSANE

MY LEGS ARE GONE

GONE

IN MUSCLE DEATH

The lyrics are written by a human being, everything else is on AI 🙂 












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Goatwhore "Mankind Will Have No Mercy" from the album "Vengeful Ascension"

Vengeful Ascension

Goatwhore "Mankind Will Have No Mercy"

Goatwhore "Collapse in Eternal Worth" from the album "Blood for the Master"

Goatwhore "Collapse in Eternal Worth"

Antropomorphia "Psuchagogia" from the album "Evangelivm Nekromantia"

Antropomorphia "Psuchagogia"

King Diamond's new single "Masquerade of Madness"

Masquerade of Madness

King Diamond "Masquerade of Madness"

Taken from the album »Sermon« (Releasedate: 01.11.2019)

Sermon

Get the album here!

Une Misère - Sermon

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."

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