WHIPLASH Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records
July 18th, 2018
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Passaic, New Jersey-based thrash metal band Whiplash have signed an album contract with Metal Blade Records, confirming this development on July 18th, 2018.
Whiplash mainman Tony Portaro commented: “My main influences were the West Coast thrash bands that Brian Slagel brought into the limelight in the early 80s. Without them attracting my attention in the first place, I never would have written Power And Pain [1986]. And the fact that Metal Blade is still promoting old school thrash and believing in me, gives me the inspiration to continue creating my East Coast style of metal.”
The bands as-yet-untitled eighth full-length studio album is scheduled for an early 2019 release.
Whiplash’s line-up is as follows:
Tony Portaro (vocals and guitar)
Dank DeLong (bass)
Ron Lipnicki (drums, ex-Hades / ex-Overkill)
Seventh studio record Unborn Again was released in September 2009 via Pulverised Records.
Promotional photograph by DM Jones.
