[ Universal NZ / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 22 April 2016
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Obey The Riff... As far as aphorisms go few hit harder than Beastwars' heavy metal mantra. The Death Of All Things was produced by the band and James Goldsmith in their hometown of Wellington, and mixed by Andrew Schneider (Unsane, Big Business); mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Windhand); and is the third and final full-length in a post-apocalyptic trilogy.
In 2011, Beastwars released their self-titled debut to critical acclaim and in doing so transformed New Zealand's metal landscape. Reviewers celebrated the album's, "slow- burning furnace of basstrawling riffage," (The Sleeping Shaman) as well as its distinctive blend of lysergic and premonitory metal that compared the band to Kyuss, Neurosis and Godflesh, while hinting at influences as distinctive as The Jesus Lizard, Black Sabbath, and in Hyde's 'avant-grunt', Celtic Frost. Music that at its very core channels a colossal mood filtered to a point where, "every wail, every riff, every bass thump and every cymbal crash serves to remind you that this is enigmatic and darkened metal, straight from the murky heart of the Antipodes." (Sixnoises)
Two years on from their internationally acclaimed debut, Beastwars returned in 2013 with Blood Becomes Fire which landed at #2 in the nation's music charts. The album delivered ten songs retaining all the strength and psychedelic fire of their first while presenting a powerful evolution in vision.
1. Call To The Mountain
2. Devils Of Last Night
3. Some Sell Their Souls
4. Witches
5. Black Days
6. Holy Man
7. Disappear
8. The Devil Took Her
9. The Death Of All Things