– October ninth, 2025 –
“Strategy of Elimination” Full-Size To Drop Tomorrow On Metallic Blade Information!
Watch / stream DEAD HEAT’s “The Order” HERE
West Coast crossover faction DEAD HEAT is happy to unleash their newest video for “The Order” from their Course of Of Elimination full-length.The premiere comes on the eve of the document’s official launch Friday, October tenth on Metallic Blade Information!
Produced by the band with Paul Fig (Deftones, Trivium, Jerry Cantrell), Course of Of Elimination is DEAD HEAT‘s first album for Metallic Blade. Throughout eleven heavy tracks, it sees the Oxnard, California-based band reaching a sonic and lyrical apex. The document follows the band’s critically adored, 2023 launched Countless Torment EP and serves as a continuation and development musically, whereas thematically it usually touches on DEAD HEAT‘s disdain for the powers that be.
Photograph by Luis Hernandez
Of the document’s lead single, “Perpetual Punishment,” Stereogum precisely championed, “nice music for headbutting all of your finest buddies.” Elsewhere, Decibel Journal notes, “Course of… leans deep into the snarl and gnarl of their earlier work to provide a vicious, bloodthirsty thrash document that’s extra Demolition Hammer, Kreator, or Sodom than it’s crossover like D.R.I. or Crumbsuckers.” Rock Onerous Germany writes, “After a brief acoustic intro originally of ‘Perpetual Punishment,’ DEAD HEAT open their third album with the sensitivity of an orbital sander. The Californian five-piece’s crossover hardcore thrash is fantastically raucous, its uncooked model repeatedly harking back to their Texan colleagues Energy Journey.” Mystification ‘Zine hails a “tougher, meaner and louder” period of DEAD HEAT whereas Fuze confirms, “The songs are uncooked and uncompromising, but catchy and immediately recognizable. DEAD HEAT manages to mix heaviness and hooks in such a means that their tracks not solely work within the mosh pit but in addition stick within the thoughts.” Provides Transcended Music, “In case you’re into riffs, Course of Of Elimination is pure riff metropolis.“
Feedback vocalist Chris Ramos on at present’s single, “‘The Order’ is about figuring out your house in line in terms of issues. Simply since you’re given one thing, doesn’t imply you all the time earn it and in terms of that, actual acknowledges actual. Some individuals all they do is leech off others and use them simply to learn themselves and break free later. All the time know there’s an order to issues and in the event you don’t observe you don’t must be round.”
Watch DEAD HEAT‘s “The Order” video HERE.
Stream DEAD HEAT‘s beforehand launched single, “Perpetual Punishment” HERE and “By My Will” HERE.
Course of Of Elimination shall be out there on CD and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following shade variants:
Blood Moon (Purple / Black Marbled – US)
Nightfall (Orange / Purple / Black Marbled – US)
180g Black (EU)
Yellow / Brown Merged (EU – Ltd. 300)
Swamp Inexperienced / Bone Merged (EU – Ltd. 200)
Discover all pre-orders at: metalblade.com/deadheat
Course of Of Elimination Monitor Itemizing:
01. Perpetual Punishment
02. Annihilation Nation
03. Hidebound
04. The Order
05. Enemy
06. Seventh Gate
07. DH Stomp
08. Solace Denied
09. By My Will
10. Strategy of Elimination
11. Hatred Bestowed
DEAD HEAT Stay w/ 200 Stab Wounds, No Treatment, Bastardane:
11/03/2025 HQ – Denver, CO
11/04/2025 Complicated – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT
11/05/2025 Eagle Aerie Corridor – Las Vegas, NV
11/07/2025 The Ritz – San Jose, CA
11/08/2025 Goldfields – Sacramento, CA
11/09/2025 1720 – Los Angeles, CA
11/10/2025 The Rosetta Room – Mesa, AZ
11/12/2025 Soggie Doggy – Lubbock, TX **
11/13/2025 The Wave – Wichita, KS **
11/15/2025 The Stache – Grand Rapids, MI **
** No Bastardane
DEAD HEAT:
Justin Ton – rhythm guitar
Ricky Garcia – lead guitar
Chris Ramos – vocals
Yogie Rodriguez – drums
Vincent Amador – bass/ rhythm guitar
Lorence Chanch Meraz – bass
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