THE EXALTED PILEDRIVER frontman says first new album in 22 years "worth the weight"

Canadian heavy metal cult band The Exalted Piledriver are getting ready to deliver some massive metal to the masses once again this Halloween with the release of Metal Manifesto (via Northern Storm Records), their first album in 22 years.

The band's earlier recordings - Metal Inquisition (1985) and Stay Ugly (1986) -- are considered cult heavy metal albums, and have together have globally sold nearly 500,000 copies to date.

In an update that only The Exalted Piledriver himself could deliver, he bellows: "'Metal Manifesto'... this album is really the simplest, most direct injection of metal I've ever had the illicit pleasure to produce! It is worth the weight, trust me! It's either our crowning glory or my scorched swan-song. No click-track, no kbds, no autotune, no gratuitous octupled guitars or vocals, no cutting out all the mistakes... (ok, I admit, we did tune the guitars, but that was after much gunplay). It's as warts n' all and as in-yer-face as I could get it, and it phreakin' ROCKS me! All that I can ask of an album is that the songs and musicians are strong, that the sound is unique, and most importantly that it sounds to me what my favorite album would sound like. As far as reference to past Pile issue, musically, I would think that this album sounds like it belongs smack between Inquisition and Ugly, but done with today's gear. A few of the songs, 'Battle Axe' and 'Road Pigs' were even written back in '86 and '87. More importantly, it sounds as totally different and fresh as it sounds familiarly old-school and Pile-icious... after it's release on Halloween the fans will no doubt let us know loud and clear what this album is and where it fits, then we'll all know, hyaaar!! The bottom line is I'm quite pleased with it, it rocks my face off, so the fans should like it too! After all, as the Exalted High Priest of The Metal Inquisition, could I really do other than bang my head, thrash it out, and speak the words that thou wouldst not??? Of course not! That wouldn't be living to the word of my Metal Manifesto!"

The Exalted Piledriver is playing a rare live show on October 13thth at The Opera House in Toronto in support of thrash veterans OVERKILL. More info on the show, tickets, etc please go here.

The Exalted Piledriver sent BW&BK; the official Metal Manifesto tracklisting

'From Ashes Arise (intro)', 'Blood Bath', 'I'm The One', 'Metal Manifesto', 'Last Day Of The Weak', 'Volatile', 'When I Saw Your Face', 'Battle Axe', 'God You're Stupid II', 'Unsuck My C*ck', 'The Things I Give', 'Road Pigs'.