KILL DEVIL HILL - the new band featuring Vinny Appice (HEAVEN & HELL, BLACK SABBATH, DIO) on drums, Rex Brown (DOWN, PANTERA) on bass, Mark Zavon (RATT, W.A.S.P., 40 CYCLE HUM) on guitar and Jason "Dewey" Bragg (PISSING RAZORS) on vocals - have confirmed a March 27th release date in North America for their self-tiled debut album, via SPV/Steamhammer. The album will be released in Europe on April 3rd.

Radio Metal has published a new interview Rex Brown. An excerpt follows:

Q: What initiated this collaboration with Vinny, Mark and Jason?

A: "Actually, they’d been working on this project for six months or a year before they called me. They were looking for a bass player who could fit the kind of stuff they were planning on. I’ve known Vinny for a long time from festivals, at the time of Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, even back in the Pantera days and with Down. We became good friends. We would often meet at the catering or something. When we were supporting his band, I would often take a joint behind the amps and watch Vinny play. So to get a call like that, saying: 'Look, we’re looking for a bass player'… I was kind of not satisfied with where I was going with the band I was in. He sent me the tracks and I said: 'Leave the bass tracks off, so I can get a feel for myself'. That’s the way it started off. About a year ago, I spent several days with the guys at a convention called NAMM in Los Angeles. We rehearsed, and there was some magic in the room. We started playing all these songs, and then days went by. I would go down once a month, we would rehearse and I would stay for a week or two. And it turned into this monster! We started scanning around for record deals, the whole thing. Then somebody came to me and said they wanted to check it out, because they’d heard that me and Vinny were playing together. But without the other two guys in the band, we would have been shit. Anyway, that’s the way it kinda came around. We played a date in April, five in August, and went right into the studio. Immediately following the studio, we went out on tour for about four or five weeks. We showed we were a band that could get out and play live. Without any product whatsoever or any publicity, we kind of succeeded in what we needed to do. It just got better and better every night. That’s where we are now. We’ve finished the record, it took us three times to mix the thing. It’s coming out it March. Very excited about this project. This is something that will be going on for a long time. We’re a band, we’re getting along great. It’s a very positive feeling."

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The Kill Devil Hill album will be available in a standard CD edition, iTunes digital download, and Double Gatefold LP. Details and track listings for each format can be viewed below.

CD:

'War Machine'

'Hangman'

'Voodoo Doll'

'Gates Of Hell'

'Rise From The Shadows'

'We're All Gonna Die'

'Time & Time Again'

'Old Man'

'Mysterious Ways'

'Up In Flames'

'Revenge'

Double Gatefold LP:

Side 1

'War Machine'

'Hangman'

'We're All Gonna Die'

'Time & Time Again'

Side 2

'Old Man'

'Mysterious Ways'

'Revenge'

Side 3

'Rise From The Shadows'

'Up In Flames'

Side 4

'Voodoo Doll'

'Gates Of Hell'

Bonus Track:

'Drawbridge'

iTunes Digital Download:

'War Machine'

Hangman'

'Voodoo Doll'

'Gates Of Hell'

'Rise From The Shadows'

'We're All Gonna Die'

'Time & Time Again'

'Old Man'

'Mysterious Ways'

'Up In Flames'

'Revenge'

Bonus Track:

'Strange'