Linkin Park to release unheard One More Light-era track with Chester’s vocals

Linkin Park to release unheard One More Light-era track with Chester’s vocals

Hear a 30-second teaser of Linkin Park’s previously-unreleased song Friendly Fire, featuring Chester Bennington’s vocals.

February 20, 2024
Words:Emily Carter
Photo:James Minchin


Linkin Park have announced that they will be releasing a previously unheard track called Friendly Fire.

The song features vocals from late frontman Chester Bennington, and was recorded for 2017 album One More Light – the band’s final full-length to date.

According to Genius, Friendly Fire was written by Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and songwriter/producer Jon Green, and its epic, poppy chorus hears Chester singing, ‘We’re pulling apart for no reason / We’re pulling a trigger in the useless war / And if we come back and go into the black / What are we fighting for? / What are we fighting / It’s just friendly fire, fire, fire.’











Speaking to Kerrang! around the time of One More Light’s release, Mike reflected positively of the mixed reactions that the album was receiving. “I love the fact that you’ll find comments pretty regularly that say things like, ‘The heavy stuff is my thing, but I can get into this,’ or, ‘I’m going to skip this one,’” he said. “Both are fine with us.”

“I find it so cute that some of our fans still haven’t figured out what we’re about,” added Chester. “It doesn’t surprise me – I expected it as we do throw some pretty big curveballs.”

Read this: The 20 greatest Linkin Park songs – ranked

DOOM METALFEATURESGROOVE METALINTRODUCINGPOST-HARDCORESLUDGE METAL INTRODUCING

Highly skilled and focused, James Isaac, more commonly known as Jimbob, has worked for many years in the world of art and music. With a background in bands like HARK and TAINT, while also creating pieces for bands like MASTODON, he’s no stranger to the extreme side of music and all the colour and textures you can produce within it. We caught up about his lockdown project SILVERBURN and how it’s evolved into a full fledged live band.



Having written all the music and preformed it himself for the album, the fact that SILVERBURN has now blossomed into several members was something of a shock to Jimbob. “I probably wrote at least one or two of the songs, if not more, before I even thought it would a get recorded [or] get performed by me or a live band,” he recalls. “It was totally just for myself, zero fucks. I didn’t even think that anyone would end up physically playing it as a band. At that point, I had no idea I would end up recording it as a proper album with myself playing the drums!”

The idea to produce something for the discipline of it is quite something, then to be stuck with a pandemic that gives you the time to dedicate to a huge project, it almost seems inevitable that SILVERBURN would be something more than just a small set of ideas. “[Initially I figured] I’m just gonna make this as like a home-made digital album, you know, put it out on Bandcamp and don’t make too much of a fuss about it,” Jimbob explains about the evolution of the project in the early days. “Early on, I thought, ‘okay, I’m gonna write eight songs. This is my challenge. And I’m going to do it within twelve months’. And I did it; I demoed all of the songs with all of the drums and everything digitally, all within twelve months. And then it was the following twelve months where I trained myself on the physical drumming, to be able to then record it after a total of two years at that point. The self-challenging was a huge motivation behind it.”

The songs on Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation, are bombastic and both broad sweeps brutal, while also inflecting many subtleties within that tumult. “A song tells you what it needs; it decides,” Jimbob muses when queried on when to know when to let the song be ‘finished’. “So you don’t really decide about what stays and what goes. [It removes] a selfish perspective of keeping things just because like, I wrote that part. That’s not really how it works, at least not for me anyway. Whether it’s one person channelling it or a group of people channelling it, that’s how I see it working. So yeah, just let the song write itself and you’ll know when it’s done.”

With the band initially being just Jimbob being in control, and with no outside pressures from anyone to even write this music, for many, that open-ended can be a hindrance. Jimbob, however has been very disciplined. “I’ve always liked self-imposed deadlines anyway, because they dictate your timetable. You just sort of work backwards from it.” Jimbob explains. “I find it easier to write on my own. And fundamentally I see it all songwriting as coming from a whole perspective anyway, like a holistic perspective.”


“So even in my previous bands, the majority of the material I wrote. And all of my riffs come from a rhythmical standpoint anyway, so it’s almost like so I would always be suggesting to previous drummers that I’ve worked with, I would always be suggesting beats and grooves and tempos to them. So it was just a case for me to up my drumming game, which is, again, another motivational part of this is to want to be able to do that. I kind of feel like it’s almost in a way easier for me to just do it on my own even if certain aspects of it can become more time consuming.”

On the other hand, while there are parts that are more time consuming, SILVERBURN has been such a successful endeavour because Jimbob has been keen to improve his own musicianship through the process. Take his drumming for example; he learnt more efficiently how to play and actually record his own drums so as to authentically create naturalistic rhythms. “Well I just feel like I can be more intuitively creative, instead of like relying on a drummer to interpret something in a certain way when I know how I want it to be interpreted. So, I can do that now, instead of like, battling with a drummer, maybe who might not be able to sort of feel what I’m feeling or whatever.”

The sludgy, doomy groove of SILVERBURN essentially rest on those drum ideas being fully realised, in order for the huge riffs to really hit hard. That effectively comes from Jimbob himself and his history with music. “Many of those bands [who influenced me] have all got such great dynamics, tempo changes and tempo shifts, and yeah, it’s, I felt like it’s always been an intuitive part of my arsenal actually over the years. So yeah, I just love it, but I find it intuitive. It’s just when you change gears, and so some bombastic riff change.”

While SILVERBURN started as a one man project, in it’s final iteration the members have had to all learn how to slip into their places as naturally as possible. “Oh, the guys have been really sympathetic to what was needed, what the songs need,” Jimbob nods. “And that ultimately is for it to be played as close as possible. I mean, you know, there can be subtleties in maybe the articulation of one or two drum parts here or there, to a very modest degree. But other than that, it’s pretty much just learning how to play it, as it is.”

“And my drummer Adam – it’s been amazing to see him being able to internalise the different rhythms and tempos and feels for each part in each song, and Ross as well on bass. Because yeah, I’ve got I suppose I’ve got quite a such an organic feel? Yeah, there’ll be like, two tempos within one riff kind of thing, because it’s all down to swing, basically. They’ve both been really committed to learning it and feeling it and they’ve done a super great job.”

Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation is out now via MSH Music Group.

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AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE RELEASES “JUDGMENT DAY” SINGLE FEAT. OV SULFUR VOCALIST

This Friday, February 23, Austrian Death Machine - the unmissable brutal metal project helmed by As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis - will return with their first new album in a decade, Quad Brutal. Featuring 10 tracks of heavyweight thrash-infused extremity and sprint-worthy speed, the album will instantly have listeners coming back for more - ready for endless reps and skipping nothing (except maybe leg day).

Today, Austrian Death Machine racks up their fourth and final single from Quad Brutal, entitled "Judgment Day". Ricky Hoover of deathcore unit Ov Sulfur lends his vocal attack to unrelenting ripper - one of the new album’s most spine-tingling, breakneck tracks with an unforgettable chorus and a punishing closer of unmatched brutality.

Tim Lambesis says about "Judgment Day" and its video:
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"Neeyahhh! The over-the-top visual theme behind the 'Judgment Day' video represents our promise to keep marching forward and persist in having a good time no matter what happens, until the final moments of Judgment Day make that impossible. Until then, don't be too serious and find a way to keep going! I've found a community of good friends that make it easier to stay on my feet - I wouldn't have made Quad Brutal without my band mates reminding me that I don't need to create Austrian Death Machine songs alone like I've done with many songs before this album."

In historic Austrian Death Machine fashion, Quad Brutal is supported by a slew of guests on each track - in addition to vocal contributions from Dany Lambesis (HELLBØRN), tracks on Quad Brutal are supercharged by professional bodybuilders and vocalists Craig Golias and Rob Bailey, vocalist Ricky Hoover (Ov Sulfur, ex-Suffokate), guitar virtuosos Angel Vivaldi, Clayton King, Brandon Richter (Bleeding Through), Joey Alarcon (Wolves At The Gate, Born Through Fire) and more. Oh, and Ahhnold himself, of course.

Absolute units like relentless debut single “No Pain No Gain”, hammering “Get Down”, apocalyptic harbinger “Judgment Day” and massive “I Never Quit” blister and groove with unmatched fury, while death-meets-metalcore burners like “Destroy The Machines”, “MeatGrinder” and “Don’t Be Lazy” explode with the colossal strength of Ahhnold himself. On the other end of the weight bench, large and in charge head-spinners like “Conquer” and “Hey Bro Can You Spot Me?” bring the brutality without sacrificing melody, and will have fans of Lambesis’ other projects turning their heads.

Lambesis says about Quad Brutal: "Being commissioned by The Govournator to sonically encompass the brutality of 80s action, bodybuilding, and judgment day into one album is a task that comes with great responsibility. First, I had to make it brutal of course. Then, I had to make sure to include choruses so that people don't forget the great wisdom of Ahhnold's words. And since it's the fourth album, I had to really work on my quad strength at the gym to someday be ready to carry the weight of the world from the album cover when it's passed along to me someday. The result is an album that is much more diverse than any ADM album I've written, and in the spectrum of heavy, it is the most brutal by a long shot when you hear all 10 songs."



Quad Brutal will be available in the following formats:

- CD Digisleeve
- 1LP Blue Gatefold Vinyl
- 1LP Transparent Marbled Violet Gatefold Vinyl + Art Print and Slipmat (Napalm mail order only, limited to 300)
- Digital Album

Pre-order here.



Quad Brutal tracklisting:

"No Pain No Gain (feat. Craig Golias, Angel Vivaldi)
"Conquer (feat. Hellbørn, Clayton King)
"Hey Bro Can You Spot Me? (feat. Craig Golias, Alarcon)
"Judgment Day (feat. Ov Sulfur)
"Everybody Pities The Weak (feat. Hellbørn)
"Don't Be Lazy (feat. Craig Golias)
"Get Down (feat. Craig Golias)
"Destroy The Machines (feat. Dany Lambesis)
"MeatGrinder (feat. Hellbørn)
"I Never Quit (feat. Kill Rob Bailey, Craig Golias, Bleeding Through)

"Judgment Day" video:



"Destroy The Machines" video:



"Don't Be Lazy" video:



"No Pain No Gain" video:

SAVATAGE GUITARIST CHRIS CAFFERY LOOKS BACK ON OPENING FOR METALLICA AND OVERKILL IN 1984 - "THEY ALWAYS SAY FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS; MY DREAMS SEEMED TO FOLLOW ME

Savatage / Trans-Siberian Orchestra guitarist Chris Caffery has shared the photo and message below via social media:



"Saw this little piece of Metal Monday history an actual ticket shared on a page by my metal brothers in the band Overkill.

My band at this time was called Anti. I was just 16 years old and a senior in high school. I had multiple high school classes in the 8th grade, so I was able to graduate at 16! I made that choice to exit my life as a kid to hopefully my life as a professional guitarist.

This was one of Metallica’s very first shows on the east coast. My band had already opened a show with Overkill the year before in this same theater. We had a pretty big following and were going over very well at these shows.

IRON CURTAIN - SAVAGE DAWN

Leather jackets, bullet belts, chains and studs, Iron Curtain are back, with the Spaniards' fifth gritty, Motörhead inspired proto-thrash album. Like the Energizer Bunny of metal (or is it Metalucifer?), high speed, buzz saw guitar anthems, with gruff vocals comprise the eight proper cuts, beginning with jackhammering "Devil Eyes". Paradoxically entitled, "The Aftermath" opens the disc, as a meandering 83 seconds intro, while the title track/finale is a voiceless, 49 second outro.

Subtlety doesn't seem to play a role in the Iron Curtain way of thinking, although the unpronounceable fifth tune begins/ends with twin acoustic guitars. "Gypsy Rocker" mines similar retro/old school territory as the fastest Night Demon material, albeit ratcheted up here, in the speed/intensity stakes. Good stuff!

Riffs and double bass drums dominate pummeling "Thy Wolf". Don't come looking for introspective lyrics, the words are almost an afterthought, as the music speaks volumes (pun intended) in any tongue. "Rattlesnake" is about as "catchy" as it gets, not content to bash it out forever. Listen to those classic, meandering Fast Eddy style leads. Back to noisy mayhem with "Tyger Speed"

VENREZ RELEASE NEW SINGLE "SIP THE CUP"; MUSIC VIDEO

Wake Up! Music Rocks, a division of Wake Up! Music, a leading independent record label, is excited to announce the signing of Los Angeles band, Venrez, a dynamic and electrifying rock band.

With their unique blend of hard rock, punk, and metal, Venrez has been making waves in the music industry and is now ready to continue their voyage with their new single, "Sip the Cup". Stream the song here, and watch the official music video below.






Formed in 2009, Venrez has been making a name for themselves with their high-energy live performances and powerful music. The Venrez rock band is comprised of Ven (as he is known to his friends) on lead vocals, Jason Womack on guitar and backing vocals, who has played with such acts as Fuel and Juliette Lewis and the Lick’s; Victor Singer on drums who provides the powerful beat; and Gabe Maska on bass whose undeniable talent has resulted in him becoming a fixture on the Sunset Strip.

The band has released four albums to critical acclaim and has toured extensively, sharing the stage with legendary acts such as Slash, Alice Cooper, and mega bands including Buckcherry, Fuel, Hardcore Superstar, Michael Schenker, and punk legend Richie Ramone. Though the lead singer Steven Berez entered the music business later in life, he is showing the world how it is done. Venrez has won a global following on their own terms by doing it the hard way, sweating it out in front of packed houses the world over.

Wake Up Music is known for its commitment to supporting independent artists and providing a platform for them to reach a world-wide audience of Nu Music Listeners. The label's founder and CEO, Pepper Gomez, expressed her excitement about the new partnership with Venrez, stating, "We are thrilled to have Venrez join the Wake Up Music family. Their music is profound, energetic, and truly embodies the spirit of rock and roll." She feels that Venrez and their unique rock sound will not only fit in at the Label, but will also thrive with the freedom that the Wake Up! Music, which focuses only on new music, offers its artist to create.

Venrez says, “The band is thrilled to have signed a record deal with Wake Up! Music Rocks as well as the soon to be released first single from our new EP title track with music video ‘Sip The Cup’.”

Venrez will release a 6-song EP commencing late February, 2024. Produced by platinum and Grammy award winning, Malcolm Springer and mastered by Ted Jensen. The music video was directed and shot by Hollywood cinematographer, Domonick Giorgianni of Domino Effect Productions. Tour date announcements will follow.

The signing of Venrez to Wake Up Music marks an exciting new chapter for the band and their fans. With the label's support, Venrez will have the opportunity to reach an ever growing audience and continue to make their mark in the music industry.

LEAVES' EYES SHARE MYTHS OF FATE 2024 UK / EUROPEAN TOUR TRAILER

Viking metallers Leaves' Eyes will kick off their Myths Of Fate 2024 UK / European Tour on March 14th in Birmingham, UK. It will feature Northtale, Metalite and Catalyst Crime, and will wrap up on Spril 13th in Berlin, Germany.

The band has releassed an official tour trailer, which can be viewed below.

Tour dates are as follows:




March
14 - Birmingham, UK - Asylum
15 - Glasgow, UK - Slay
16 - London, UK - The Dome
17 - Manchester, UK - Academy 3
19 - Nürnberg, Germany - Hirsch
20 - Solothurn, Czech Republic - Kofmehl
21 - Bochum, Germany - Matrix
23 - Osnabrück, Germany - Bastard Club
24 - Leipzig, Germany - Hellraiser
26 - Darmstadt, Germany - Centralstation
27 - München, Germany - Backstage
29 - Madrid, Spain - Moby Dick
30 - Porto, Portugal - Hard Club

April
1 - Barcelona, Spain - La Nau
2 - Milano, Italy - Legend Club
3 - Vienna, Austria - Szene
4 - Budapest, Hungary - Analog Music Club
5 - Sofia, Bulgaria - Joy Station Club
6 - Bucharest, Romania - Fabrica
7 - Cluj Napoca, Romania - Form Space
8 - Krakau, Poland - Kamienna 12
9 - Warsaw, Poland - Hydrozagadka
10 - Gdansk, Poland - Drizzly Grizzly
11 - Hamburg, Germany - Headcrash
13 - Berlin, Germany - Orwohaus



Leaves' Eyes recently revealed first details about a new album to be released in 2024 via AFM Records.



The band's ninth studio offering will be titled Myths Of Fate. Says Leaves' Eyes band mastermind and singer, Alexander Krull: "Finally the time has come and we can present you our new video 'Forged By Fire'! We played 'Forged By Fire' on stage at Wacken as a world premiere and the song was enthusiastically celebrated by the fans! Here's the video with an awesome storyline about the legendary Tyrfing sword and a fiery performance in the truest sense of the word! With 'Forged By Fire' we are starting a series of videos with the magical theme of the new album Myths Of Fate! Are you ready to travel with us into the world of sagas?"

"Forged By Fire" is available on all digital platforms here. Watch the video below:



Leaves' Eyes have always played in a league of their own. The international group has toured all populated continents, playing concerts in more than 50 countries, frequently reach top positions in the album charts and with every output they deliver a multimedia masterpiece when it comes to video clips and artwork. Their live shows are spectacular events with breathtaking stage scenery, including a Viking ship or even the “Swords In Rock” monument from Norway. Leaves' Eyes have been setting world history to music and undeniably, by doing so, have raced to the top of the symphonic metal tree.

With “The Last Viking”, the 2020-monumental-piece of Leaves' Eyes, they set up their own musical monument that is just as captivating and strong as the saga of the last Viking King itself. They even surpassed their own standards with an original film documentary, “Viking Spirit” from 2021. Filmed worldwide, the growing Viking re-enactment scene has been visually praised here, while fronter Alex and the band became part of this community, long ago. “The Last Viking” fuelled expectations what these geniuses will come up next with. Now, "Forged By Fire" is a more than exciting harbinger of their new album "Myths Of Fate" to be unleashed in 2024. Watch out for more details, pre-sale info and much more, to follow in the days ahead.

Leaves' Eyes is:

Elina Siirala - Vocals
Alexander Krull - Vocals
Micki Richter - Guitar
Luc Gebhardt - Guitar
Joris Nijenhuis - Drums

(Photo - Stefan Heilemann)