Demiser | Metallic Blade Data

Like a lumbering, ferocious beast awoken from a centuries-long slumber, the steel behemoth generally known as Demiser emerged from the primordial ooze of the South Carolina steel scene in 2017. After a number of years working towards a sonic apocalypse and intent on inflicting untold havoc, Demiser is releasing its sophomore album and Metallic Blade debut, Slave to the Scythe,

The 9-song LP is a devastatingly intense slab of labor, an aural harbinger of hellish intent that sees the band mix ’80s thrash, first-wave black steel, dying steel and a wholesome dose of NWOBHM. Slave to the Scythe is the work of a band of males decided to destroy the whole lot of their path. Musically, in fact.

Their names are: Demiser the Demiser — occult liturgic blasphemy; Gravepisser — six-stringed satanic fukklord; Phallomancer — abysmal rhythm of dying; Defiler – dismal baritone curator; and Infestor — purveyor of percussive bile. They’re merely not right here to fuck round. Press reviews observe that Demiser is the proper selection for when “you’re within the temper for some soiled blackened thrash lengthy on enjoyable and quick on pretense.“

Slave to the Scythe was recorded in the summertime of 2023 with Chase McGuckin at Seaboard Recording Studio in West Columbia, South Carolina. “We file one after the other with scratch tracks and clicks and all. We recorded with minimal AC so it was sizzling as fucking shit.” Demiser see Slave to the Scythe as the proper follow-up to By the Gate Everlasting. “We really feel prefer it’s a continuation of our first album and upholds the identical ripping sound,” they are saying.

The band will probably be releasing three singles from the brand new opus, staring with the face-ripping “Infernal Bust” – a form of Rosemary’s Child for a gore-loving viewers that features the lyrics, “Rot your womb, unfold the seed that devil seeps; Flesh grows pale, fruit of man wilts.”

“We wrote the music for this one in a single apply, it got here collectively fairly rapidly,” they are saying. “Then Demiser the Demiser’s dumb ass determined to name it ‘Whores and Hearth’ and we instructed him to close the fuck up and name it one thing cooler. We nonetheless failed. The lyrics are concerning the downfall of man via a very evil cumshot.”

“I actually needed a swingy track to discover some triplet fills and had probably the most enjoyable penning this one for certain,” elaborates Infestor. “After we play it dwell I improvise half the fills simply to maintain it enjoyable and recent.”

“Hell is Filled with Hearth” is an epic story of a demonic warfare, that includes the strains, “Name within the hordes, put together for victory; The vermin Christ and his servants; Will quickly plead as their blood spills; By the desire of my metal.” “This was one which began with a riff Phallomancer dropped at apply and all of us jumped in and received it fleshed out,” they are saying. “Lyrically, we had been making up dumb track titles we thought Demiser the Demiser would write and in some way he dropped this gem out of his ass. We ran with it. We nonetheless remorse it.”

The ultimate single will probably be “Carbureted Velocity,” an adrenaline junkie’s anthem with the strains, “Recent air, you possibly can preserve it, give me that Florida snow; Blowin rails n gator tails, bumpin’ as I’m going; The devils headlock has me in its grip; Snowblind and out of time my thoughts begins to slide.” “Gravepisser wrote most of this one musically and we received it totally completed throughout apply.” they are saying. “The lyrics are about doing cocaine and driving choppers.”

For the uninitiated, Demiser shaped in 2017 with the mission of “getting sufficiently big to get a free bar tab,” they are saying, with no hint of irony. The 5 males wish to drink and play brutally heavy music. They describe the Demiser sound as, “Quick-ripping black thrash with some soiled rock ‘n’ roll affect at instances. As we’ve continued writing, we’ve come extra into what Demiser’s sound is somewhat than getting down to sound like a particular style.”

The band’s influences embody the likes of Venom, Bathory, Slayer, Motorhead, and Destroyer 666, plus motion pictures like Terminator 2, Commando, and Predator (“just about something Schwarzenegger actually”).The overarching themes on Slave to the Scythe are basically “hell, fireplace and hellfire.” There aren’t any ballads, no love songs – that is devilish music for devilish those who was largely written on the highway.

“We wrote it over the course of some years between touring with the legendary Bulldozer and different reveals right here and there,” they are saying. “All people within the band usually brings one thing to the writing room (apart from Demiser the Demiser) and all of us workshop it till now we have a track. Then we do it a bunch extra instances.”

But Slave to the Scythe is greater than a group of particular person songs, it’s a full physique of sledgehammer-heavy ferocity. Every track gives a unique shade to the Demiser palette. “I’m pleased with the entire album general, however the bridge riff from ‘Phallomancer the Phallomancer’ was one thing I kicked in and Infestor wrote that solo over, it so it’s cool that the rhythm part received to contribute to the guitars,” says Defiler.

“This album is extra of a mix of my lyrics and contributions from different members,” says Demiser the Demiser. “The standout observe for me is ‘Complete Demise’ which is lyrically half and half written by me and Gravepisser, however general I’m pleased with the sound.”

And the look: The duvet artwork, that includes a demonic wanting creature (maybe the Lord of the Flies himself?), matches that theme too.”We got here to Lucas Ruggieri with lyrics to some of the songs and let him run with it,” the band says concerning the artist. “We’re actually pleased with the way it turned out – he crushed it as all the time.”

Decibel has raved about Demiser: “All of the aggression and pace of black-thrash with heavy steel melodies, Demiser take the very best of each worlds.” Memorable, evil and inconceivable to disclaim, Slave to the Scythe represents the sound of a band on the rise, momentum firmly of their favor, waving the steel flag with delight and fury.