The band
When a band makes up its name from “Company of Maniacs”, this can be seen as a promise to the listener. Since the formation of their band in 2012, the four Swiss of Comaniac have repeatedly proven what this means in their case: They celebrate metal-mania in the best sense. After two praised demo tapes in their founding year, the debut album “Return To The Wasteland” was labeled “THE thrash highlight of 2015” (powermetal.de, 9.5/10) by the press. As support for bands like Exodus or Kreator and with an impressive performance at the MetalDays festival in 2016, the four established their reputation as an amazing live band. The second edition of their debut album was soon sold out due to enormous demand.
The album
Not less than that can be expected from the Swiss’ new album that is to be released via SAOL on April 7, 2017. The title “Instruction For Destruction” states what Comaniac stands for: destructive thrash metal at its best. With “Coal” as the perfect opener to show the band’s musical development, it is not hard to predict what this will lead to – Comaniac are Switzerland’s promise for the future of metal. Songs like “Bow Low” or the title track “Instruction for Destruction” have that high recognition value many young thrash metal bands can’t provide. It makes the listener hope that the four will keep following their own instructions – because destruction hardly ever sounded so good. And Comaniac’s destruction can’t be stopped.
The first song “Bow Low”
The song “Bow Low” (http://bit.ly/2iZFmyi) serves as the album’s first wrecking ball. Besides musical intransigence what the listener can expect is profundity with regards to content as the band states about their first – thematically highly explosive – taster: “The Song “Bow Low“ is about the development of an authority that positions itself alternately between ‘good and bad’ and, analogous to the course of the song, grows into its manic middle section. Here, the totalitarian aspect of might breaks through and leads to its abuse and an incitement to destruction. The lyrical theme of “Bow Low“ does symbolically represent the album’s title “Instruction For Destruction“. And it doesn’t respectively refer to the social perspective of authority, but also to the current political situation all over the world – for this also is about authority represented by the state, by religion or ethical principles.”
Tracklist
1. Coal
2. Suborned
3. Bow Low
4. Guarding Ruins
5. How To End It All
6. Self Control
7. Shattered
8. Heart Of Stone
9. Forever More
10. Instruction For Destruction
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