Israel-based thrash / death metal force Nail Within has announced its long-awaited comeback and inked a worldwide deal with Massacre Records! The label will proudly release the band’s forthcoming, new studio album “Sound of Demise” on November 17th, 2023.
Frontman Yishai Sweartz states:
“We are proud to announce the signing of Nail Within for 2 albums by the German record label Massacre Records, being a part of the scene for more than 35 years personally I grew up with the label’s classic releases as the 90’s King Diamond albums, Atrocity, Fates Warning, early Crematory, Skyclad, and of course the classic stuff as Pretty Maids, Wargasm, Baphomet and Solitude Aeturnus.
I still remember 1994 when I sent a demotape of my first band Betrayer to various labels in Europe and Thomas from Massacre was the first person who sent me a letter back and replied, so we are glad to make a circle complete after 30 years and start a journey together which I’m sure will be successful”!
A music video for Nail Within’s first single, the blistering album opening track “Bleeding Society” (feat. Tom Angelripper), is now streaming below.
Says the band about their first single release:
“It tells the story we all know of a world turnin’ more and more primitive while technology is getting better. On one hand Israel is a top cyber force, a high tech “nation’ with tons of start-ups and the highest technology, on the other hand people here are getting used to violence on an almost daily base, and this violence is a result of blind primitive beliefs – can you imagine that in 2023 people throw rockets from one side to another, or people go out to stab someone with a knife just because he is not a part of what they believe in? The higher we go with technology, the more primitive we go in our behaviors. People have lost the ability to talk, to listen, to pay attention to others. They send icons via WhatsApp instead of talking, are screaming without listening, and cancel those who are different or the ones they can’t understand. I think that in the 90’s, society was more open in general. Here we are in 2023 and we still talk about things like the abortion issue in the U.S, or ISIS in the Middle East, or the high level of ignorance and violence in our country. We can send people to the moon but still people decline the different, bleeding society indeed.
We invited Tom Angelripper from Sodom to sing with us. Sodom’s lyrics started to deal with society and the barbarism of mankind around 1989 with ‘Agent Orange’ and later on with ‘Better Off Dead’, and they still write about these things as sadly it’s still relevant today”.
Pre-order & pre-save “Sound of Demise” here.
Tracklist:
01. Bleeding Society
02. Eyes of Evile
03. Sound of Demise
04. Regression… And the Price We Pay
05. Duplicate Our Lives
06. Years of Madness
07. Everything We Know
08. Words as Weapons
09. Manipulated and Doomed
10. Severe Suffering
11. Isolate
Nail Within was formed in 2001 by singer Yishai Swearts, guitarist Alex Shuster, bassist “Evil” Haim, and drummer Barak Miko Zait, rising from the ashes of two longtime collectives in Israel’s underground music scene (Betrayer and Azazel), and featuring guitarist Matan Cohen and drummer Nir Nakav.
Following their critically-acclaimed, self-titled debut album in early 2003 through Listenable Records, the band went on hiatus just a year later. Matan Cohen signed his other band Betzefer to Roadrunner Records and started a successful career touring with acts as Sepultura, Lamb Of God, Fear Factory and others, Alex Shuster moved to California and joined the legendary sludge band “-(16)-” (Relapse Records), Evil Haim toured the world with Israeli punk icons Useless ID, played in multiple local bands and opened a DIY punk record label (Taklitin Holim) while Yishai Sweartz became predominant metal promoter in Israel and formed Tomorrows Rain (A.O.P Records) where he joined forces with Nir Nakav (who continued to play in Salem).
Through the years, all the band members kept in touch and in 2022 Shuster and Sweartz started to talk about “hey this year it’s 20 years to the debut…” kind of talk, a week later a couple of new songs were written and the band decided to continue their creative momentum. As a result a full album was written and recorded in Israel/U.S.A with 11 new songs. Picking up from where the band left with their debut 20 years ago but introducing new dimensions that make it more relevant for this day and age, “Sound of Demise” sees Nail Within return angry, dynamic and full of intensity!
Produced by Alex Shuster and mastered by Maor Appelbaum, the album also features guest appearances from Tom Angleripper (Sodom), Eric Peterson (Testament) and Bobby Ferry -(16)-. Slated for a release on November 17th, 2023, via Massacre Records.
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