Sacrifice Announce ‘Volume Six,’ First Album in 16 Years
Well well well! Happy holiday gift to us! Canadian thrash metal legends Sacrifice are BACK BABY… Or, at least, they will be next year when they release their first new album in over 16 years, called quite the captain obvious name of Volume Six.
Volume Six, which will also be the band’s sixth release in general, sees Sacrifice working again with engineer Darius Szczepaniak, who worked with them on their last full-length album, 2009’s The Ones I Condemn. Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Phase One Studios in Scarborough, Ontario, the album was produced by the band’s frontman Rob Urbinati, and features all of the band’s original members (that’s lead guitarist Joe Rico, drummer Gus Pynn, and bassist Scott Watts, in case you were wondering).
Urbinati had this to say about what inspired the album:
“I write all the time. It was around 2017 when I wrote a couple of songs that I thought were really good. I played them for the band, and they were totally happy with them and the direction. I wrote a couple more and Gus and I were making some real progress in getting the songs tight and even talking about recording, then the pandemic hit. My creativity completely dried up for whatever reason, even though I was sitting at home with nothing to do. There was nowhere to rehearse in the city because things would shut down, then open up, then close down again, so it was hard to get a consistent rehearsal schedule going and I just wasn’t feeling it. When things started coming back, our original plan was to do an EP, but we had enough songs that we were completely comfortable and happy with to do a whole album.”
On some of the album’s themes, Urbinati added:
“Sacrifice generally has pretty dark themes and a lot of lyrics were written over the pandemic when things were feeling pretty apocalyptic, especially at the beginning of it. ‘Comatose’ comes from us playing in Vancouver a lot and seeing the amount of drug abuse around downtown East Vancouver. It affects you when you’re seeing human beings everywhere with extreme drug problems and paramedics walking around at night in groups of three basically looking for people who have overdosed or died. There’s that, world politics, all the wars going on, natural disasters — half of Canada was on fire last year! — the album is pretty dark, and I think the art conveys the content.”
Volume Six will be released on February 21 through Cursed Blessings Records in North America and High Roller Records in Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Volume Six track listing:
- Comatose
- Antidote Of Poison
- Missile
- Underneath Millennia
- Your Hunger For War
- Incoming Mass Extinction
- Lunar Eclipse
- Explode
- Black Hashish
- We Will Not Survive
- Trapped In A World (feat. Brian Tailor)
- Trapped In A World (feat. Rob Urbinati) (North America CD/MC bonus track)
