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News : Beastwars To Release New Album ‘The Death of All Things’ This April

By on February 4, 2016
Beastwars 2016

Photo Credit: Damian McDonnell

New Zealand’s sludge kings, Beastwars, have announced that they are to release their anticipated third studio album this April. Entitled ‘The Death of All Things’, it sees the further evolution of the band’s music in the realm of psychedelic, sludge-infused rocking doom metal.

The album was produced by the band and James Goldsmith in their hometown of Wellington, New Zealand. It was mixed by Andrew Schneider (Unsane, Big Business) and mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Windhand). It will be the third and final part in their post-apocalyptic trilogy.

‘The Death of All Things’ will be released worldwide on April 22 this year via Destroy Records. March 11 will see pre-orders go live for a limited edition vinyl copy of the record, available via www.obeytheriff.com. In the meantime, you can stream the band’s new single “Call To The Mountain” through YouTube and Soundcloud.

Obey The Riff… As far as aphorisms go few hit harder than Beastwars’ heavy metal mantra.

Returning in 2016 with what will undoubtedly become one of this year’s most revelatory releases, Beastwars are a band so heavy, and heavily admired by fans in the Southern Hemisphere, they practically weigh the world in place and stop it spinning wildly off its axis.

The Death Of All Things… An album that signals the arrival of one of metal’s best-kept secrets out from under; primed to take on the world full tilt.

In 2011, Beastwars released their self-titled debut to critical acclaim and in doing so transformed New Zealand’s metal landscape. Reviewers celebrated the album’s, “slow- burning furnace of bass-trawling riffage,” (The Sleeping Shaman) as well as its distinctive blend of lysergic and premonitory metal that compared the band to Kyuss, Neurosis and Godflesh, while hinting at influences as distinctive as The Jesus Lizard, Black Sabbath, and in Hyde’s ‘avant-grunt’, Celtic Frost. Music that at its very core channels a colossal mood filtered to a point where, “every wail, every riff, every bass thump and every cymbal crash serves to remind you that this is enigmatic and darkened metal, straight from the murky heart of the Antipodes.” (Sixnoises)

Two years on from their internationally acclaimed debut, Beastwars returned in 2013 with Blood Becomes Fire which landed at #2 in the nations music charts. The album delivered ten songs retaining all the strength and psychedelic fire of their first while presenting a powerful evolution in vision.

Don’t miss Beastwars when they hit Sydney and Melbourne (supporting The Sword), alongside Auckland near the end of this month.

20th February – Frankie’s Pizza, Sydney
21st February – Coburg Hall w/ THE SWORD, Melbourne
27th February – The Studio w/ THE SWORD, Auckland

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Jonathon is an aspiring fantasy/sci-fi novelist and music journalist. Thanks to the influence of the music he grew up with, he has always possessed a keen interest in metal and rock. He is also a huge fan of mythology, legend, and folklore from all across the world. You should follow him on Twitter.