SKINLESS Share "Barbaric Proclivity"
May 18, 2015, 9 years ago
In just two weeks, reanimated New York death metal miscreants, Skinless, will lacerate ears with the sadistic grooves of Only The Ruthless Remain. 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 guitarist, Dave Matthews, Only The Ruthless Remain marks the band's first proper full-length offering in nearly a decade.
Only The Ruthless Remain was 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 slab of audio violence mastered by Brad Boatright (Obituary, Nails, Integrity) at Audiosiege in Portland, Oregon.
In celebration of its official detonation next month, the world-collapsing sounds of closing pounder, "Barbaric Proclivity", can be heard via the audio player below.
"It's the kind of song that I love for its raw intensity," relays Webber bluntly. "It's a true-to-form, knuckle-dragger. Fuck technicality; fuck beats-per-minute. If you want a raw, heavy, New York style skull crusher, this one is for you, and will beat the rest into submission."
Only The Ruthless Remain tracklisting:
“Serpenticide”“Only The Ruthless Remain”
“Skinless”
“Flamethrower”
“The Beast Smells Blood”
“Funeral Curse”
“Barbaric Proclivity”
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!"
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.
Skinless, further traumatize the metal hordes with the new visual accompaniment to their namesake track, "Skinless”. 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.”
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
(Band Photo - Shaun MacMahon)
