Severed Fifth

The new Severed Fifth album Liberate is now available for purchase from here on CD as well as download from here. The album features 11 tracks recorded with Juan Urteaga (Machine Head, Testament, Exodus) at Trident Studios and features the following songs:

• End Of Days
• Machines Of War
• Fight Philosophy
• They Prey
• Fallout
• Blackening
• Forgotten Heroes
• Foretold Revelation
• Repent
• Drill Down
• Politicold

The CD comes in a full digipack with liner notes, band member photos and lyrics.

Go and buy or download Liberate now!

Be sure to join us tonight in San Francisco for our release party for the new album too:

This is another video in our series this week in which we are releasing a new sneak peek every day from the forthcoming Severed Fifth album ‘Nightmares By Design‘. The eleven track dose of Severed Fifth is released on 11th October 2010 and available free and in full from severedfifth.com. Today we are featuring Politicold, a song that is increasingly becoming a fan favorite for people who have heard ‘Nightmares By Design‘ before it’s release.

Politicold is a song written about the mis-informed obsession with picking sides in politics, and how instead of uniting a people, this partisan nonsense divides the people. The song begins with firm and rhythmic groove before kicking in the verse and then pulls it back a little to groove even more for the chorus. The song then ratchets itself down a notch and transforms into a solid Severed Fifth jam, driving forward and then topping it off with us trading guitar solos and ending the song with melodic and heavy outro.

Check out a sneak peek of Politicold below:

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Over the last few months I have been working with Sonia Bass, an awesome artist and illustrator from New Zealand, to put together a concept for the new Nightmares By Design album cover. I sent over Sonia a bunch of themes that I wanted to see, and she sent back some ideas and we started iterating on it. Sonia did the art for my previous band Seraphidian‘s album ‘Caged’, so I knew she could knock out something stunning.

Well, she did, and here it is – the official Nightmares By Design album cover:

The album will feature eleven tracks that weigh in at around 54minutes of music:

• Foretold Revelation
• Drill Down
• Politicold
• Fight Philosophy
• Fallout
• Forgotten Heroes
• The Blackening
• They Prey
• End Of Days
• Machines Of War
• Repent

We are getting close, and remember, you will be able to download the full album and share it with your friends freely. Rock and roll! \m/

I am pleased to announce that the new Severed Fifth album due for release in Fall 2010 is called Nightmares By Design. It has been about five months in the works, and I am really pleased with it. I think it is a good album, a progression from Denied By Reign, and having jammed it with the new live band, the material is going to absolutely rip live.

We are all hugely excited about getting out there any taking these songs on the road, I can’t wait for you folks to check these songs out live.

The album packs in eleven tracks. They are:

• Drill Down
• Politicold
• Fallout
• Fight Philosophy
• They Prey
• Foretold Revelation
• Machines Of War
• Forgotton Heroes
• End Of Days
• The Blackening
• Repent

There is a real mix of some fast tunes, some mid-paced chunky grooves, some bay area thrash mixed with more British metal, and an acoustic song to provide some more texture.

Don’t forget, this week I am streaming the live recording of the album online:

• WHEN: 11th – 15th August 2010 (first part of Sat 14th no recording as I will be at a band rehearsal)
• TIMES: 10am – 6pm Pacific
• WHERE: Get connected here!

Be sure to check in!