After 35 years, LOUDBLAST remains a unique entity of fully dedicated musicians churning out some of the catchiest death thrashing head banging madness.
LOUDBLAST have been recording their new album ‘Manifesto’ at Vamacara Studio in France. It is produced by HK Krauss and band leader Stéphane Buriez. ‘Manifesto’ contains 10 new songs (and several more bonuses recorded for limited editions).
The cover art was made by Eliran Kantor who once again achieved a stunning piece of work:
"Stéphane told me about the album title, and I came up with the idea for the cover late at night while I was trying to fall asleep: I pictured a book that instead of bringing enlightenment (usually portrayed by rays of light), is emanating shadows. A dark cast revealing the evil nature bubbling in black tar beneath those who read it"
Band guitarist and front man Stéphane Buriez comments on its musical side:
"This album has a particular feel for me, the themes refer to the chaos of life as such, to the chaos of society, the darkness of man revealed through his everyday actions. In ‘Manifesto’ there’s the unhealthy side of our previous album ‘Burial Ground', the atmospheres of ‘Disincarnate', ‘Sublime Dementia' and ‘Cross the Threshold', just a real Loudblast album!."
New member Frédéric Leclercq (ex Dragonforce - bass) adds:
"While we kept certain elements of "Burial Ground", especially in terms of darkness, there was also common goal to go back to the roots of Loudblast. Stylistically, a balance between the brutality of Disincarnate, and the technicity and melodicity of Sublime Dementia."
‘Manifesto’ basic track listing (without bonuses - no specific order):
Todestrieb
Solace In Hell
Erasing Reality
The Promethean Fire
Invoking To Justify
Into The Greatest Of Unknows
Infamy Be To You
It Hides Until It Feeds
Festering Pyre
Unit 731
LOUDBLAST ’s new album ‘Manifesto' is scheduled for an early November 2020 release date.
ONLINE
LINEUP
Stéphane Buriez - Vocals, Guitars
Jérôme Point-Canovas - Guitars
Frédéric Leclercq - Bass
Hervé Coquerel - Drums
BIOGRAPHY/LOGO
Let us not beat around the bush shall we ? LOUDBLAST are legends in the French and worldwide underground scene, end of story. Not only because they started off as far as 1985 when the words ‘death metal’ were barely invented…
Or because of their Scott Burns-produced masterpieces "Disincarnate" (1991) or "Sublime Dementia" (1993) or European tours with DEATH or CORONER. No, if this lot led by founding member and guitarist/vocalist Stéphane Buriez are so revered in their home-country, it’s first and foremost because of their unrivalled career that saw them taking many surprising and risky left-turns without ever looking back.
Three years ago, "Frozen Moments Between Life and Death" proved to be their boldest move as refuelled by the arrival of youngsters Alex Lenormand (bass, ex-LOCUS, CODE, SIC) and Drakhian (lead guitar, GRIFFAR, ex-TAAKE, BLACK DEMENTIA), Buriez and his longtime drummer Hervé Coquerel did throw all the rules out of the windows without turning their backs on their roots. The result of eighteen months of hard work, ‘Burial Ground’ goes even further. A solid mix of classic and modern influences, it dares transgressing their traditional thrash/death style of yore to achieve a much more malign yet as catchy sound.
"Burial Ground" also their first record released through the LISTENABLE imprint. A new partnership that will enable them to tour Europe (and beyond!) and conquer a brand new audience, as soon as they’ve wrapped their upcoming extensive headlining French tour . So forget everything you think you knew about LOUDBLAST and get ready to enter this "Burial Ground" ! (Olivier Badin – February 2014)
DISCOGRAPHY
Sensorial Treatment - 1989
Disincarnate - 1991
Sublime Dementia - 1993
Fragments - 1998
Planet Pandemonium - 2004
Frozen Moments Between Life and Death - 2011
Burial Ground - 2014
Manifesto - 2020
GENRE/COUNTRY
Death Metal
France