METAL ALLEGIANCE – self-titled debut album out now

18th September 2015 Thomas Nielsen News 0

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release their self-titled debut album today

Heavy metal is more than a genre, more than an attitude and certainly more than whatever cheap epithets are dismissively thrown at it by clueless critics. At its best, metal is a lifestyle, a community, a tribe uniting people across cultural, economic and philosophical divides with the primal pulse of bombastic and majestic expression.

Never before has one entity encapsulated so many components of the heavy metal community’s continued vibrancy and dedication to the lifestyle than the collective fittingly called METAL ALLEGIANCE.
METAL ALLEGIANCE will release their self-titled debut album today via Nuclear Blast.
In support of this upcoming release, the band just revealed the music video for
‘Gift Of Pain’ (feat. Randy Blythe, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Gary Holt). Watch it here: : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2uj1N8GoQ

Some of the international media quotes:

“It’s all enough to make any true fan of the genre stand up and shout.”
REVOLVER (US)

“This album is both great on paper and on record, musically, sonically, lyrically and in general altogether. What Mark and the rest of the gang have done here is fantastic and I think represents metal very well. An allegiance to heavy metal.“
THE ROCKPIT (AUS)

“Probably the best all-star metal bands ever featuring the almighty metal heavyweight we could dream of.”  
METALLIAN (F)

Order your copy of METAL ALLEGIANCE’s self-titled debut album here:
http://nblast.de/MetalAllegianceNB

The album includes appearances by Philip H. Anselmo, Charlie Benante, Chuck Billy, Randy Blythe, Rex Brown, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, Phil Demmel, Alissa White-Gluz, Matt Heafy, Gary Holt, Jamey Jasta, Chris Jericho, Andreas Kisser, Misha Mansoor, Mark Osegueda, Tim “Ripper” Owens, Doug Pinnick, Troy Sanders, Cristina Scabbia, Steve “Zetro“ Souza and Ben Weinman, in addition to Ellefson, Menghi, Portnoy and Skolnick.

The album contains nine original songs, with the digipak edition including a cover of ‘We Rock’ as a tribute to the late and great Ronnie James Dio.

»METAL ALLEGIANCE« tracklist:
01. Gift Of Pain (feat. Randy Blythe, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Gary Holt)
02. Let Darkness Fall (feat. Troy Sanders, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Mark Menghi, Rex Brown, Randy Blythe)
03. Can’t Kill The Devil (feat. Chuck Billy, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Phil Demmel, Andreas Kisser)
04. Dying Song (feat. Phil Anselmo, Alex Skolnick, Mark Menghi, Mike Portnoy)
05. Scars (feat. Mark Osegueda, Cristina Scabbia, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy)
06. Destination: Nowhere (feat. Matthew K Heafy, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy)
07. Wait Until Tomorrow (feat. Doug Pinnick, Jamey Jasta, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy)
08. Triangulum (feat. Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Misha Mansoor, Ben Weinman, Charlie Benante, Phil Demmel, Matthew K. Heafy, Ron “Bumblefoot“ Thal)
09. Pledge Of Allegiance (feat. Mark Osegueda, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Charlie Benante, Gary Holt, Andreas Kisser)
Bonus track:
10. We Rock (feat. Mark Osegueda, Chris Jericho, Tim “Ripper“ Owens, Alissa White-Gluz, Chuck Billy, Steve “Zetro“ Souza, Alex Skolnick, David Ellefson, Mike Portnoy, Andreas Kisser, Phil Demmel, Gary Holt)

More on »METAL ALLEGIANCE«:
‘Dying Song’ official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7n4B9KHQnI
‘Can’t Kill The Devil’ official lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kn-yxpt1QM
Official album trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMgHSwqDDGk

Webisode #1 – ‘Gift Of Pain’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaICw2i7A7s
Webisode #2 – ‘Let Darkness Fall’:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47Zvy0q3Vs
Webisode #3 – ‘Dying Song’:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7kr4Zw4goc
Webisode #4 – ‘Can’t Kill The Devil’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzxH1WTBXNw
Webisode #5 – ‘Scars’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf0FNt5Jcyw
Webisode #6 – ‘Destination Nowhere’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HACgbQ_x1cA
Webisode #7 – ‘Wait Until Tomorrow’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7H32EJHriI
Webisode #8 – ‘Triangulum’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i5dVgSXT5s
Webisode #9 – ‘Pledge Of Allegiance’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3V5z59dwek

More info:
www.metalallegiance.com
www.facebook.com/metalallegiancetour
www.nuclearblast.de/metalallegiance

 

About Thomas Nielsen 1051 Articles
When my old buddy Kenn Jensen asked me if I wanted to contribute to the new site he had created, then called powermetal.dk, I didn't hesitate. My love for metal music was and is great. I wrote my first review during the summer of 2004 (Moonspell's 'Antidote' album). In 2015, I took over the editor-in-chief role.
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