Beastmaker To Release Inside The Skull May 19 Via Rise Above Records; Artwork and Track Listing Revealed
On Tour With Zakk Sabbath This Spring
The glittering technological future we were all promised has turned into a dystopian nightmare.
If music must reflect the times, the hour has plainly come to reject the mainstream status quo and get down to the roots and rhythms of life's elemental heaviness.
That's where Beastmaker comes in. Purveyors of some of the most ecstatically thunderous and raw doom metal to emerge in decades, this three-man riffing machine from Fresno, California, are manifestly the real deal.
Their sound is instantly recognizable and yet thrillingly otherworldly, like all your favorite riffs fed through some perverse malevolent prism and reborn in fresh, overdriven grotesquery.
But while they may superficially appear to servants of a strict Sabbathian code, there is plenty of room for maneuver within the band's titanic sound.
But while they may superficially appear to servants of a strict Sabbathian code, there is plenty of room for maneuver within the band's titanic sound.
The result of this feverish desire to expand their sonic universe is new album "Inside The Skull," a bruising tour-de-force of sinister riffs, skewed blues and looming horror, it is simply one of the heaviest and most mesmerizing albums you will hear in 2017, replete with a special cameo or two.
"Inside The Skull" is set for release May 19 via Rise Above Records.
"Inside The Skull" is set for release May 19 via Rise Above Records.
The artwork and track listing have been revealed.
From the old school evangelism of opener Evil One and the warped psychedelia of Now Howls The Beast through to the twisted fury and fire of Psychic Visions and creepy closer Sick Sick Demon, "Inside The Skull" is not just a muscular hymn to the glory days of heavy metal's genesis and early prosperity: this is a vital, virile and venomous slab of wildly creative but spiritually pure doom devastation, designed to rescue us from the drab harshness of present day reality and transport us somewhere cooler, somewhere better and, in the best way possible, somewhere much heavier. Recorded and produced by the band themselves, in their own self-built studio, it's an album with great depths and a macabre heart.
While they may be reveling in Hitchcockian disquiet, Beastmaker will not be lurking anonymously in the shadows for long.
While they may be reveling in Hitchcockian disquiet, Beastmaker will not be lurking anonymously in the shadows for long.
Once "Inside The Skull" is released, the band will be hitting the road in the US with Zakk Wylde's Black Sabbath tribute act, Zakk Sabbath, before the band's campaign to draw the world into this unique maelstrom of pitch-black riffs and morbid tales begins in earnest. Erupting from the underground, this beast is alive and ready to howl.
Inside The Skull Track Listing:
- Evil One
- Heaven to Hell
- Now Howls The Beast
- Of God's Creation
- Give Me A Sign
- Nature of the Damned
- Psychic Visions
- Inside The Skull
- Night Bird
- Sick Sick Demon
BEASTMAKER W/ Zakk Sabbath:
5/17: Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant St*
5/18: New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
5/19: New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
5/20: Philadelphia, PA @ Voltage Theatre*
5/21: Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter*
5/22: Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall*
5/23: Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
5/24: New Orleans, LA @ Siberia Nola*
5/25: Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio
5/26: Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar N' Grill
5/28: St. Louis, MO @ Fubar
5/30: Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
5/31: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
6/2: Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
6/3: Indianapolis, IN @ Black Circle Brewing*
6/4: Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
6/6: Spokane, WA @ The Pin
6/7: Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
6/8: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
6/10: San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
6/17: Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater
*Denotes Headline Show
More About Beastmaker:
Bursting into the consciousness of the world's doom hordes with their debut EP You Must Sin in 2015 and debut album Lusus Naturae the following year (both via Rise Above Records), Beastmaker have already won over countless converts, not least with an extensive European Tour in 2016 with label mates Blood Ceremony, climaxing with a much-praised appearance at the hallowed Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland. Voted 'Best emerging metal band' by MetalAssault.com and among 2016's Top 10 doom releases by Cvltnation.com that same year, they hit the ground running and earned a formidable reputation as a crushing live act.
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