IHATE:
Chris Barnes Launches Vicious New Death Metal Project; Preview Track Posted +
Special Pledge Music Preorder Packages Now Available
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Six Feet Under founding
throat/death metal icon, Chris Barnes, is pleased to bring fans his latest
work of sonic deviance in the form of the fittingly christened, IHATE. A venture
inadvertently launched between Barnes and multi-instrumentalist/fellow horror
enthusiast Bob Taggett, their as-yet-untitled debut promises to deliver eight
violent tracks of raw, unrepentant, death metal brutality and lyrical
depravity.
Relays Barnes of the project's formation, "Early last year
I got a message via Facebook from someone named Bob and Bob said to me, as a
lot of people do, 'I have some songs and I'd like you to sing on them. Can I
send you a song so you could check it out?' I get a lot of these requests and
didn't think too much of it, but since I was just fresh back from a tour and
a little bored, I decided to entertain the idea of listening to a song from
Bob. After receiving an email with the first track that was attached to a
video which more or less mapped out a murder storyline, I thought it was
really different, and definitely creepy visually. And there was something
very primitive and energetic to the attack of the music. It was very driven.
I could feel it instantly. I knew this wasn't a joke and wasn't done
half-assed. The music I was listening to was aggressive as a knife carving
chunks of flesh off a body. Putting the music to a video caught my attention,
immediately, as to Bob's focus. I found it all really interesting. I have
almost always worked from a storyline in my head for my lyrical inspiration
and my own imagination, but never have started from the standpoint of
lyrically scoring a storyline already laid out on video first, like scoring a
film. That seemed really exciting to me as a writer as well as a vocalist. I
emailed Bob back and told him I would love to be involved with making this
album with him. So one thing led to another and we began writing and
recording. We are very close to finishing the album and have enlisted the
good people at Pledge Music to help us reach out to all of the fans who we
hope will help us make this album a reality."
As for what true death metal
miscreants can expect from the IHATE end product? "To me, it
really is a masterpiece of brutal, violent death metal," says Barnes,
"I'm really stoked that if got to work on this album. The fans know that
I'm no stranger to writing some sick lyrics, but the stuff I have come up
with this time is entirely over-the-top even by my standards. I really want
the fans to hear this album and dig into the storylines of the songs. This is
the first time I've used crowd-funding to make and release an album. And it's
been a very challenging, interesting learning experience along the way. And
an eye-opener as well. We are really hoping the fans of death metal will make
a pledge and preorder our new album. It's really important to us that this
album gets released. This is brutal as fuck."
Check out more from
Barnes as well as a preview of the track "Seeing Red" at THIS LOCATION.
Several IHATE preorder
packages, which include autographed posters and CDs as well as a chance to
have a personal listening session with Barnes himself, are available via
Pledge Music. For more info, point your browser HERE. Further IHATE info to be
announced shortly.
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