Bay Area natives and thrash metal band Hatchet are set to release their third studio album, Fear Beyond Lunacy, on October 30th via The End Records/ADA. Check out a new lyric video for the album track, “Living In Extinction”:

The follow-up to 2013's Dawn Of The End will debut the new Hatchet lineup behind founding member, vocalist, and lead guitarist, Julz Ramos: Clayton Cagle on guitar, Kody Barba on bass, and Ben Smith on drums. The new members have injected the band with a surge of raw energy, and fans of Hatchet will be overly satisfied with this revived enthusiasm laid into the recordings.

Says Ramos, “We felt “The World Beyond” (streaming below) was a good all around track to introduce fans to the new album. It has a good mixture of both fast and mid-tempo pacing with some cool gang chants in the verse. It isn't the fastest or the most melodic on the album either so we wanted people to get a taste but not give away the whole brewery up front. It only leads to good things from here!"

When discussing the album artwork for Fear Beyond Lunacy Ramos adds, “We're excited to finally be revealing our cover art for our third studio album. The artwork was done by Andrej Bartulovic from All Things Rotten who also did our previous album cover for Dawn Of The End. The artwork depicts what I see us becoming as a modern society. A society of fear engrossed, media addicted slaves. We are constantly hooked on what our media and TVs are feeding us to believe to be true and what we should be afraid of today, tomorrow, next month/year etc.. I feel this is particularly true with Americans. There is always some big conspiracy happening or natural disaster predicted by someone hundreds of years ago that everyone in some form or another seems to live their lives in fear of. It's getting out of hand and that's what this picture represents; someone who is ultimately driven insane by this and where we can all be heading if we are not careful."

Fear Beyond Lunacy tracklisting:

“Where Time Cannot Exist”
“Living In Extinction”
“Lethal Injustice”
“In Fear We Trust”
“Killing Indulgence”
“Dead And Gone”
“Tearing Into Hell”
“Prophet Of Delusion”
“The World Beyond”
“Frozen Hell” (bonus track)
“Awaiting Evil (bonus track, only available on vinyl edition)

“The World Beyond”:

Pre-order the album at The Omega Order.

Hatchet are preparing to hit the road September 22nd for a six-week tour with Doyle, the namesake band of Doyle Von Frankenstein (formerly of The Misfits), alongside supporting acts The Family Ruin and Calabrese, with select dates featuring Hatchet with Lich King.

Says Julz Ramos: "We definitely learned a lot from Kobra and that tour's diverse metal bill, who all had their stuff dialled in tight. Now we are proud to announce our next tour supporting Doyle. Being a thrash band you always have that hardcore punk influence somewhere in your sound and it will be exciting to play to more of that crowd. We will be hitting some new territories this time around as well. Look forward to seeing the Hatchet Legions in full force!"

Tour dates:

September
22 - Saint Vitus - New York, NY *
23 - Championship Bar & Grill - Trenton, NJ *
24 - 1150 Live Oaks Bar - Cranston, RI **
25 - The Chance - Poughkeepsie, NY
26 - Reverb [with Life Of Agony] - Reading, PA
27 - Muncheez - Beckley, WV
30 - Vega - Lincoln, NE

October
1 - Sunshine Studios - Colorado Springs, CO
2 - Area 51 - Salt Lake City, UT
3 - DB's Brew & Steak House - Idaho Falls, ID
4 - Faultline North - Bozeman, MT
5 - TBA - Billings, MT
9 - POV's - Minneapolis, MT
10 - 7 Flag Events Center - Des Moines, IA
11 - Spicoli's - Waterloo, IA
13 - The Token Lounge - Westland, MI
15 - Stanhope House - Stanhope, NJ
17 - Rock And Shock - Worcester, MA
18 - Revolution Bar - Amityville, NY
23 - Korova - San Antonio, TX
24 - Del Rio Civic Center - Del Rio, TX ***
25 - Cine El Rey - McAllen, TX ***
28 - Jake's - Lubbock, TX ***
29 - Trees - Dallas, TX ***
30 - 18th St. - San Leon, TX ***

November
2 - Blue Max - Midland, TX ***
3 - Mesa Music Hall - El Paso, TX ***

* Lich King only
** Solo show
*** With Calabrese