Artist: VIO-LENCE
Album: LET THE WORLD BURN EP (DIGI)

Release date: 04.03.2022
EAN/UPS: 39841582529
Media type: CD

Formed in 1985, Oakland thrashers Vio-Lence helped define and refine what came to be known as the Bay Area sound, dropping three seminal albums before splitting in 1993. Leaving behind a heady legacy, they reformed briefly a couple of times in the intervening years before becoming a full-time going concern once more in 2019. After playing a string of successful shows, the quintet started to think about new music and in 2022 they deliver Let The World Burn, a five-song EP showcasing their first new material in 29 years, which delivers on the classic Vio-Lence sound. “That came very naturally,” states founding guitarist Phil Demmel. “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.”

TRACKLIST CD/ LP:

1) Flesh from Bone
2) Screaming Always
3) Upon Their Cross
4) Gato Negro
5) Let the World Burn

LINE-UP:

Sean Killian - Vocals
Phil Demmel - Guitars
Perry Strickland - Drums
Bobby Gustafson - Guitars
Christian Olde-Wolbers - Bass