Damned If You Do (album)

Damned If You Do
Studio album by Metal Church
Released December 7, 2018 (2018-12-07)
Label Rat Pak Records
Metal Church chronology
XI
(2016)		 Damned If You Do
(2018)

Damned If You Do is the upcoming twelfth studio album by American heavy metal band Metal Church, which will be released on December 7, 2018 through Rat Pak Records, Nuclear Blast, and King Records.[1] This will be their first release with drummer Stet Howland, who replaced longtime member Jeff Plate in 2017, and the second Metal Church studio album with vocalist Mike Howe since he rejoined the group in 2015. A music video was made for "Damned If You Do".[2]

Background

About seven months after the release of XI, Howe was asked if he intended write another album with Metal Church; his response was, "We have every intention of doing that and that's what it's all about. If you're not putting on new music, then it's time to go away for me. In Metal Church... it's always been like a two-year cycle band, but we put our album out this year in March. So our album is actually only being out for six months. But we have plans on this fall getting back to writing and try to put something out next year. We're also looking at some dates for the spring possibly back in the States and maybe back over here. But our drummer Jeff, he's also on the TSO. He leaves from the end of October through December. So we might take that time to start writing new record."[3]

On March 21, 2017, drummer Jeff Plate announced that he had left Metal Church,[4] and was later replaced by former W.A.S.P. drummer Stet Howland.[5] In a May 2017 interview, Vanderhoof stated that Metal Church had begun writing and demoing their next album, which was tentatively due in early 2018.[6]

On October 1, 2018, the band teased an audio sample of a brand new song from the album.[7]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Damned If You Do" 
2."The Black Things" 
3."By the Numbers" 
4."Revolution Underway" 
5."Guillotine" 
6."Rot Away" 
7."Into the Fold" 
8."Monkey Finger" 
9."Out of Balance" 
10."The War Electric" 

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "METAL CHURCH To Release 'Damned If You Do' Album In December". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Video Premiere: METAL CHURCH's 'Damned If You Do'". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Metal Church – vocalist Mike Howe". Metal-Rules.com. Retrieved October 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Drummer Jeff Plate Quits Metal Church". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Metal Church Recruits Former W.A.S.P. Drummer Stet Howland". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
  6. ↑ "METAL CHURCH's KURDT VANDERHOOF Has 'A Big Pile Of New Songs' Ready For Next Album". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  7. ↑ "METAL CHURCH Teases New Studio Album". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
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