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:

On the 3rd Feb 2012 at Octane @ Cafe Cocomo in San Francisco, Severed Fifth will be having their official CD release party to launch their new album ‘Liberate’, produced by Juan Urteaga (Machine Head, Testament, Exodus).

The night will feature a headline set by Severed Fifth, and they will be supported by Ulysses Siren and My Victim. Everyone who comes to the show will get a free copy of the new album on CD and will be entered into various prize draws.

Advance tickets are $10 (which includes the free CD) which you can BUY HERE. Tickets on the door are $12. We would like to encourage you to buy tickets in advance so we can get an idea of numbers before the show.

Just a quick announcement, folks. Unfortunately Severed Fifth will not be performing at the Friday 13th Metal Massacre show at the Oakland Metro in January. There is a flyer floating around with our logo on it, but we are going to be unable to do the show. We just wanted to let you all know.

We wish Insanity, The Venting Machine, Saint Vernon and the other bands an awesome show!

We have just added a stack of photos of Severed Fifth playing an awesome crop of gigs recently with some awesome bands. See the photos to see them!

Severed Fifth recently played Gary Holt’s wedding in Santa Clara supporting Exodus, Death Angel, Heathen, Attitude Adjustment and more, and we had a blast. Here is a video from the show:

Thanks to everyone who came to the show!

We are delighted that Severed Fifth will be supporting Exodus, Heathen, Attitude Adjustment and more at a gig in celebration of Gary Holt (w/Exodus) and Lisa Perticon’s wedding. It is on Sat 24th September 2011 at The Avalon in California and we hit the stage at 7pm. Be there!

Find out more here.

We wanted to remind you all that on June 17th 2011 Severed Fifth will be supporting Dublin Death Patrol complete with Kaos and Fog Of War at MADHOUSE at Club Cocomo in San Francisco. For full details see our live shows page.

This is going to be a special show for a number of reasons. Firstly, Dublin Death Patrol are a stunning Bay Area thrash super-group and we are excited to be playing with them, but we will also be playing our first show with our new drummer Jim Walls. We have all been busily rehearsing ready for the show, and we are making great progress ready to deliver a thumping Severed Fifth performance at MADHOUSE.

Tickets are $15 advance and $20 on the door, and it is sure to be an incredible night. Be sure to get along and join us!

One of the things that has been awesome as the Severed Fifth train keeps on chugging along around the world, is how people are using the music and their skills in different ways. In particular, we have seen a lot of videos hitting the net, some live videos, some tuition videos, and some other fun videos. Here are some of the latest…

Live Videos

First up, thanks to Wayna Marsala for putting together an awesome video of a live performance of Fallout when Severed Fifth played MADHOUSE in San Francisco a few weeks ago:

Next, thanks to John Ryus for videoing our live performance of Machines Of War on Saturday night at Chris’s Club in Vallejo

Fun Stuff

My father in law, Vance Smith, is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Vance works in real-estate and his company J. Rockcliff made a rather amusing video of a bunch of their team making a music video. Of course, Vance was representing Severed Fifth!

Street Team regular torontomario (author of most of the Severed Fifth Wallpapers) has been sharing his skills and using the Severed Fifth eagle as the source of this. Check out his Inkscape tuition video:

Next, check out Mountain Trail, a video of him playing Guild Wars, by Street Team regular Che:

Finally, it is always awesome to see Severed Fifth music in videos. Check out Drill Down on this Mudfest 2011 video:

Remember, folks, part of the reason why we are working to change the music industry to help create a culture in which it is awesome to take any music and share it in videos or elsewhere. \m/

On Saturday night we played the Fat Cat in Modesto and yesterday I added a report about the show, but we all know that pictures mean a thousand words, and moving pictures with sound mean even more! Today we some footage shot from the crowd by Siobhan Adams, and uploaded to the Severed Fifth YouTube Channel and we have them below here so you can go and check out the fun from the show!

As ever, don’t forget to subscribe to the Severed Fifth YouTube Channel, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace and be sure to share these videos with your friends and spread the word about Severed Fifth! Enjoy!

Foretold Revelation

Drill Down

Politicold

Fight Philosophy

Fallout

Yesterday started out by the full band congregating at our rehearsal studio in Oakland 12pm. We all got there and ran through our set, composed of Foretold Revelation, Drill Down, Politicold, Fight Philosophy and Fallout and ready to introduce two new songs, End Of Days and a cover of The Trooper by Iron Maiden. When we do shows we typically like to meet at the studio and run through the set without vocals (so I have plenty of oomph for the show, vocal wise), and iron out any last minute bits. We ran through the set and it sounded absolutely rocking, so we started packing up ready to head out.

We packed up the not insignificant amount of shit we need for a live Severed Fifth show; drums, five guitars, amps, cabs, racks, merch and more, loaded up Jim’s car and he headed off to pick up his wife and a friend. We then loaded up my car and Ron’s truck, and tarped down Ron’s epic Mesa/Boogie bass cab as we were expecting rain. All set, we got on the road and headed to Modesto.

Aside from a quick stop at In-N-Out Burger, we made pretty good progress, despite the rain, and got to the Fat Cat at about 5pm. We loaded in, met Mike Vanek, the promoter who was putting on the show, and met some of the guys in Crow who were headlining. Jim arrived a little later and we started setting up Ben’s drums ready for load-on when we were up.

There were five bands on the bill; Crow, Better Left Unsaid, Severed Fifth, This Times Brutal, One Less Enemy and Through The Threshold. All bands put on a stunning show, and despite some PA troubles affecting our friends in One Less Enemy they rocked it with the time they had available. In fact as part of their set, Shawn Bozarth (from One Less Enemy) and Jim Adams (from Severed Fifth) got up and played a Defiance song called The Fault. It sounded awesome. Earthquake! Earthquake!…

This was our third Severed Fifth show and we were third up in the line-up of bands; our first show not as an opener. By the time we got on stage the attendance had fattened up, and it was a great opportunity because the majority of people there had not heard us play – fresh ears! We kicked off the set with our atmospheric opener to Foretold Revelation and played through the song. The response was fantastic from the get go. Next up was Drill Down which felt great to play, and more people congregated in front of the stage.

At the Fat Cat it is a pretty unusual venue in that there is a stage with the monitors on it, and then an extra chunk of stage in front of that. Unfortunately the sound guys could not move the monitors to the extra bit of stage, so I was grounded in front of the monitors where the mic stand is, but when there were instrumental sections I would clamber over the monitors onto the front stage part and headbang with the crowd. Our third song was Politicold and there is quite a long instrumental section, so Jim and I stood on the front stage and headbanged together in unison. Even from our short gigging career so far, Politicold seems to be one of the most popular songs – we love playing it. I just love rocking out with my brothers to that tune.

Next up was Fight Philosophy and we saw more heads banging, and we were all set to roll in our debut of End Of Days next, but had to cut our set short a little due to all the PA problems earlier. As such, we decided to play Fallout and included some crowd participation to get the audience singing along with us. The audience were awesome and it was awesome to hear roars of “Fallout!” as the song continued.

After the show we packed up our gear as it torrentially rained on us, and then we hit the road back to Oakland to drop our gear off back at the rehearsal studio.

All in all we had a killer time in Modesto and we want to thank Mike Vanek for the show, all the other bands for being so cool, and everyone who showed up to support the local metal scene. We also want to say a huge thanks to everyone who got into our show and had a good time – we hope to see all you awesome people again soon.

Jono \m/

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