About Me
10/2008 - NAILED ON TERRORIZER CD, ALBUM TRACK GUIDE ONLINE
ANyone who has picked up this month's Terrorizer should have noticed we're on the Fear Candy 60 CD - the track Rupture Saviour to be precise. Pick it up if you haven't! Things are moving along swiftly, dates fo our UK tour in November are coming along and will be completed soon, and we have new merchandise on the way! I've posted a blog that goes through the album tracks to give you a rough idea of what you'll be sickened by!
08/2008 - RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCED
So we have just been informed that our release date for "Hatred, Failure & The Extinction of Mankind" will be NOVEMBER 3RD 2008 . The album will be available all over the known universe (according to our contract anyway) and will also be available in Leeds. Plastic Head are the distributors so if you want our CD in your shop, tell the staff to get onto them to get the CD ordered! Expect to see us in a venue near you soon.
08/2008 - NEW SONGS ONLINE
As you are probably hearing right now, there are new songs on our player. We've added "Rupture Saviour" from the new album, and also "Without Hope There Is No Fear" from "A Pure World Is A Dead World", mainly because people have been bugging us to do it and we had an empty player slot. Might as well rape all of Myspace's bandwidth that we can.
However, the songs from the new album are all the newly remixed and remastered versions, with new vocals, new bass and Jim's solo's on there. This version is the final sale version and not the one that has been reviewed. We feel that regardless of the material, the remastered slab of "Hatred, Failure & The Extinction of Mankind" would have at least quashed any comments about a 'thin' sounding production had the critics been privy to it. We will be announcing a release date SOON!
06/2008 - UK PRESS REVIEWS
As some of you may have read in this months UK based publications of extreme musical terror, "Terrorizer"and "Zero Tolerance" magazines, we have had reviews in them both. However due to the new album being pushed back the said CD review is not of the final product that has been submitted for release.
Due to artwork alterations and a re-mix/mastering process, the album is now sounding and looking better than its previous incarnation. Although the material is intact, new solos, bass and vocals have had to be re-recorded due to studio malfunctions,slowing the process up even more.
Live shows are to be kept to a minimum for the rest of the term, as we are currently half way through writing the next album, which hopefully will be recorded by the end of the year.The material is more punishing than ever before, and we are very proud of the way things are shaping up.
05/2008 - ALBUM RELEASE PUSHED BACK TILL SEPTEMBER
As you can see we have new artwork for the album currently being finalised and we are having the album remastered at Sterling Sound in New York. We also had the chance to re-record some parts to bring it in line with Nailed in it's 2008 form, and as such Jim's solos will now appear on the CD along with re-recorded vocals and bass, as well as a tighter overall mix thanks one again to Andy Giblin. An exact date will be announced soon.
(Courtesy of James Hoare)
Aside from pockets of resistance in the major cities, UK death metal is the sole domain of Myspace-dependent idiot bands who'll release two EP's in two months and break up still wondering who or what the subject of their Suffocation T-shirt is and why the guy they got it off Ebay from started crying when he saw them.
And were it not for Nailed, West Yorkshire would be no exception.
Forming in 2000 and culling members from similarly respectable bands In Dying Grace and Sweet Sorrow, the band's ties to their region's maudlin heritage of frilly-shirts-amid-the-gravestones Peaceville gloom began and then quickly ended with the addition of veteran guitarist Mass Firth whose previous bands Ebony Lake and Dominion later contributed members to local powerhouse My Dying Bride. Yet it can't all be rolling fog on isolated moors and Nailed are less the sweeping grandeur of bleak, rural splendour and more the concentrated rage born of urban neglect and industrial decline. Leeds may have wallpapered over the obvious signs of ill-health with glass-fronted 'renewal' and 'regeneration' but down the road, Wakefield still suffers with an endless parade of fast food outlets, pound shops and broken glass.
Having shed all but two of their early members - drummer Garth Wray & Mass Firth - by the release of their debut "A Pure World Is A Dead World", it was nevertheless a release deeply rooted in their past demos and a product, no matter how slight, of every musician to have played under the Nailed banner. Gaining a reputation for militant gigging and more importantly, for savagely stirring Floridian death metal chops in with a full-on NYDM slam and a pinch of dirty, early Carcass, they took to stages with Obituary, Entombed, Krisiun, Nile, Dying Fetus, Cancer, behemoth and many more across the UK and Europe, playing the chugarific Neurotic Deathfest in the Netherlands and the uber-filthy Obscene Extreme grind festival in the Czech Republic.
Long overdue second album "Hatred, Failure & The Extinction of Mankind" is on the verge of delivering a brutal wake up call to the cause of real death metal. No longer tied to their past material and earlier line-ups, or dogged by associations to bands with whom they share only their accents, Nailed are raising the colours for songwriting, brutality, old school values and a balance of the three in a scene where beatdowns and pinch harmonics are all that seem to matter.
