You might need caught wind of Sadistic Pressure a number of years in the past following the power of their most up-to-date album, Midnight Murderer, however when you didn’t, now’s the time. The Austin, Texas-based black-thrash trio are out for blood on their new EP, Morbid Odyssey and so they’ve given listeners a brand new observe early.
“Strike After Strike” is a reasonably easy tune, Sadistic Pressure ripping by means of a slab of blackened thrash and pace metallic with the assistance of Bewitcher guitarist Matteo Von Bewitcher, who contributes a blazing solo. Alongside the brand new music, Decibel spoke with Sadistic Pressure frontman James Oliver about “Strike After Strike,” Morbid Odyssey and balancing the previous with the long run.
Morbid Odyssey is out on August 22 through Pure Abandon.
Did you begin engaged on these songs proper after your final album or have these been in progress longer than that?
They have been written comparatively lately within the scheme of issues. We had a lineup change in March of 2024. When that was solidified, I began writing new songs to showcase the event of our sound as a result of addition of recent gamers. There’s a hefty injection of metalized blood within the new incarnation!
You labored with producer Noah Buchanan (Midnight, Nunslaughter) for the blending and mastering for this EP. Do you assume working with Buchanan helped convey out a brand new a part of your sound?
We labored with Noah from Nunslaughter on our first two albums, so it was a case of working with the man who’d labored with us essentially the most and actually is aware of how this band is meant to sound on report. I needed to retain a constant sound when it comes to manufacturing now that there’s new members within the band to make issues cohesive. We additionally tracked vocals with engineer Ryan Lee who has been a collaborator because the first days of the mission. I feel the report sounds sick as fuck.
When saying this EP, Sadistic Pressure outlined your sound as a “high-octane resurrection of metallic’s golden period. How do you discover a steadiness between sticking to the classics and presenting one thing that feels recent?
Steadiness is every little thing! For this band, that has at all times meant the mix of various excessive metallic components into the songs whereas sustaining a standard heavy metallic spine and a sound that can at all times have Motörhead in its DNA. I attempt to make music that has a contemporary heaviness to it however is firmly rooted in the old fashioned.
Morbid Odyssey options a number of visitor spots from Matteo Von Bewitcher (Bewitcher), Tony Rot, and Mark Pursino (Electrocutioner). Why did you select these musicians?
I selected shredders from bands that I really like listening to! I’m extraordinarily choosy with regards to music, and all three of their bands constantly put out metallic that will get me puffed up! We’ve performed exhibits with Bewitcher and Electrocutioner and we did a cut up a number of years in the past with Tony’s band Hellrot, so all these guys appeared like pure selections for visitor solos.
I’ve seen bands recently having visitor vocalists on their songs, however probably not many visitor guitar solos. I figured it will be badass to see what these guys would give you and so they all nailed it!
Discuss to us concerning the observe we’re premiering at present. When did you begin writing it? What’s it about?
“Strike After Strike” was the second music I wrote after I hunkered down and began placing the brand new materials collectively. That is the one which Matteo Von Bewitcher performs the visitor solo on. It’s the non secular successor to the primary single from our debut album, “Strike of the Iron.” You’ll be able to actually hear a ton of growth there when it comes to technicality and ferocity. It’s additionally evocative of the band’s unrelenting grind and an indication of issues to come back. There’s undoubtedly much more hard-hitting, barbaric black thrash on the horizon! Hail Devil.
