Tankcrimes Records is pleased to welcome
Bat to their roster of audio decadence. An
Unholy Union of
Municipal Waste guitarist Ryan
Waste on bass/vocals, former
DRI drummer Felix
Griffin and
Volture guitarist Nick Poulos, the Virginia/Texas punk
Metal marauders
Invoke the spirits of
Venom,
Hellhammer,
Motörhead and
Discharge with their Primitive Age demo EP. Featuring five tracks of filthy, fuck-all,
Debauchery, Primitive Age is a primal outpouring of molten
Metal riffs, confrontational
Kill 'Em All
Angst and enough vocal
Venom to level a nation.
The EP is currently streaming in full for your mischievous listening
pleasures at Metal Injection HERE. Track Listing:
1.
BAT 2. Total Wreckage
3. Code Rude
4. Rule of
The Beast 5. Primitive Age
Bat was forged in fire when Ryan
Waste met
Griffin in Austin at a
Municipal Waste gig in 2007. Sharing the same musical tastes and metal/punk backgrounds, the
Two immediately hit it off.
Griffin hadn't performed with
DRI since the late eighties and itched to play again. "We eventually spoke of doing a project together," relays Ryan. "Originally I was going to play all the guitars, bass and vocals and it would be a studio thing. We sat on this idea for years and humored it every time I'd pass through Texas. It seemed too exciting to not make this a real live band so I asked Nick from our current heavy
Metal band
Volture if he
Wanted on board as a permanent guitarist and it was a done deal. I would have my
Hands full singing and playing bass as it was."
Bat, which was the original working title before
Volture, seemed to suite the style they were going for so it stuck. "Nick and I cooked up a few raw demo songs, I laid
Down some basic garage band drums and we sent the tracks to Felix. With Felix living in Austin and Nick and I in Richmond, Virginia, it had to be arranged like that to start. Over this last summer Felix flew in town for a week and we banged out those songs with live drums and wrote a couple more on the fly. With only a few practices under our belts we recorded all the music in one day on reel-to-reel analog tape. It was a challenge to not over analyze and nail
Down all live takes. It was indeed primitive. We
Wanted a raw sound to begin with and this turned out to be the ultimate way to achieve it."
The Primitive Age EP is available as a
"Pay-What-You-Want-Including-Free" download at the official BAT BandCamp page HERE.
Tankcrimes is also offering a "Primitive Pack" preorder bundle which includes a double sided T-shirt, embroidered patch, die-cut sticker and cassette tape all for a thrifty $20 plus shipping. Nab your bundle today at THIS LOCATION. http://bewareofthebat.bandcamp.com http://www.facebook.com/bewareofthebat http://www.tankcrimes.com http://www.facebook.com/tankcrimes Source :
http://www.earsplitcompound.com/
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