VIO-LENCE Premiere ‘Let The World Burn’ Music Video
February 14th, 2022
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San Francisco, California-based thrash metal band Vio-Lence have filmed a music video for the title track of their forthcoming Let The World Burn EP. Directed by Robert Graves, the clip can be viewed below.
Speaking about the song, frontman Sean Killian said: “The memory of you will be forever forgotten when the extinction event arrives and fire becomes God. When the world burns and all is destroyed, all you know, all you believe will be forgotten forever. Let the world burn!”
Guitarist Phil Demmel added: “I hadn’t written a lot of thrash in the past 17 years or so, but being the main songwriter for the band over the years I wanted that sound, I wanted that mid-80s raw thing, but I also wanted to capture our signature notes and structures and stuff like that.”
Vio-Lence issue five-song EP Let The World Burn on March 4th, 2022 through Metal Blade Records. The outing will be made available in various formats and can be pre-ordered here.
Let The World Burn was recorded with producer Juan Urteaga at Trident Studios in Pacheco, California, while mixing duties fell to Tue Madsen at Antfarm Studios in Aabyhøj, Denmark.
Sean Killian commented: “For 34 years, a creation called Eternal Nightmare has been making memories for people around the world. Now, it is time to create some new memories in 2022. I am very proud of the new music we created, and we are fortunate to have worked with some very creative people. Nothing too polished here, unless fragments of glass and broken razor blades are what you consider polished. I love to create, and we hope your heads explode when you hear the new Vio-Lence!”
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The track listing is as follows:
01. ‘Flesh From Bone’
02. ‘Screaming Always’
03. ‘Upon Their Cross’
04. ‘Gato Negro’
05. ‘Let The World Burn’
Vio-Lence’s line-up is as follows:
Sean Killian (vocals)
Phil Demmel (guitar, ex-Torque / ex-Machine Head)
Christian Olde Wolbers (bass, ex-Fear Factory)
Perry Strickland (drums)
Bobby Gustafson (live guitar, Satans Taint / ex-Overkill)
An official lyric video was created for the song ‘Flesh From Bone’, which can also be viewed below.
Regarding the track, Phil Demmel stated: “This is the first Vio-Lence song I had written in close to 30 years. I wanted to keep some of those early Eternal Nightmare [1988 debut album] qualities intact but infuse a lot of what I’ve culled into my songwriting arsenal over the decades. ‘Flesh From Bone’ has the frenetic picking / fingering riffs and the solo trade-offs that are pretty old-school, and I’m also wearing my influences on my sleeve with a few Exodus and Slayer inspired riffs.”
Frontman Sean Killian added: “‘Flesh From Bone’ reflects on the true suffering of man during the dark ages of history. Laws and rules of people like Vlad The Impaler were not to be broken, if you did your sentence would be impalement, or worse. To die in battle was to suffer.”
Third studio record Nothing to Gain was released in November 1993 via Bleeding Hearts Records.
Promotional photograph by Gene Ambo.
