SKINLESS Premier “Skinless” Music Video
April 28, 2015, 9 years ago
Reactivated New York death metal sickos, Skinless, further traumatize the metal hordes with the new visual accompaniment to their namesake track, "Skinless”. The latest skull-crusher comes by way of the band's imminent new full-length, the fittingly-titled Only The Ruthless Remain.
The sadistic, seven-minute "Skinless" clip begins innocently enough before surging throat first into a horrific world of lethal injections, human flaying and general group-inflicted suffering as part of "some sort of Satanic cult ritual”. A delightful exercise in Skinless’ signature brand of butchering riffs and surgical precision, "Skinless" is punishing both sonically and visually.
Elaborates vocalist Sherwood Webber, "The “Skinless” video chronicles the sordid obsession of our accomplice, the Hudson Skinner. Captured by an equally ruthless Jim Brassard and his team, have a look into the sickened world of the Hudson Skinner set to song by your fiends in Skinless.”
Only The Ruthless Remain is the imminent new full-length from Skinless. Boasting their classic late '90s lineup of founding guitarist Noah Carpenter, vocalist Sherwood Webber, bassist Joe Keyser and drummer Bob Beaulac, with the recent addition of second guitar gun, Dave Matthews, Only The Ruthless Remain is an unrelenting, seven-track symphony of sonic sickness as only Skinless could compose.
Captured by Tom Case at Edie Road Studio and Doomsday Bunker Studio, both in upstate New York, with vocals tracked by Dave Otero (Cephalic Carnage, Primitive Man) at Flatline Audio in Denver, Colorado, and the entire monster mastered by Brad Boatright (Obituary, Nails, Integrity) at Audiosiege in Portland, Oregon, Skinless returns, triumphant and thirsty. Brandishing their signature fusion of punishing, war-waging grooves and, blast-laden mayhem delivered with surgical precision, Only The Ruthless Remain is cruel, sadistic, and poised to stand among the most addictive death metal offerings of the year.
Skinless recently unleashed the gut-wrenching sounds of opening psalm, "Serpenticide”, for public inebriation. Relays Webber, "[Illustrator] Ken Sarafin summed it up best when he said that upon listening to the new Skinless, his balls exploded and bigger ones grew in their place. That's how we felt when making it! “Serpenticide” was the song that got us into the flow of creating this album. This track has the grind, dirge, and vengeful bludgeoning that makes it a slicing cross cut of Only The Ruthless Remain. You've heard the live version; here is the final in all its ruthlessness. The countdown is on. Much more to come. As the old saying goes, it's time to stop the teasin' and start the pleasin', ha!"
Shatter some gonads with "Serpenticide”, now soiling the airwaves via SoundCloud below. Additionally, you can get up close and personal with Skinless in the studio with the first part of the "Making Of" Only The Ruthless Remain video series, below:
Only The Ruthless Remain includes artwork by Ken Sarafin and will be unleashed on CD, LP and digitally via Relapse Records on June 2nd in North America (June 1st in the UK/Europe and May 29th in Germany/Benelux/Finland). Limited Relapse 25 Anniversary editions of the CD and LP will also be available. For pre-order bundles, visit this location. Desirers of the digitals, go here.
Only The Ruthless Remain tracklisting:
“Serpenticide”“Only The Ruthless Remain”
“Skinless”
“Flamethrower”
“The Beast Smells Blood”
“Funeral Curse”
“Barbaric Proclivity”
"Serpenticide”:
Trailer:
In related Skinless developments, the band will levy their sonic brutality upon Baltimore this May as part of this year's Maryland Deathfest as well as Hellfest in France with further live conquests to be announced in the coming weeks.
Dates:
May
June
(Photo - Shaun MacMahon)
