Unleashing Vengeance records a Final EP, "Let the Darkness Pass Away"...

I, Zakk Asshole of Unleashing Vengeance spent all of today recording 8 new songs.... These aren't completely new, they are cut songs from the last Unleashing Vengeance cd "The Final Crusade" and remakes of songs from "Cosmos" and "The Wrath of Tah-um" with thrash vocals instead of death/black metal vocals.

The new EP is interesting. it has a mix of blackened thrash, progressive thrash, symphonic metal, raw black metal and symphonic black metal... Each of the 5 cut songs is a different style. None sound similar.  Track 1 is blackened thrash. Track 2 is symphonic metal, track 3 is progressive thrash, track 4 is raw black metal, track 5 is symphonic black metal with thrashy riffs like Rancid Abomination or something like that. That makes this the most varied unleashing vengeace cd ever.

The cd was mixed today and I had a hard time mixing it again. I finally got it right 2 tries in and had to remaster the previous cd to fix that as well...  It took a while to do this because I was working on filming a documentary about the making of this cd, similar to the one I filmed for the last cd..


Anyway, this is our last original cd... Don't plan to do anymore. The stress of having to mix stuff is pissing me off that I need to stop doing it now. I had to remix each of the 4 cd's we did this year 2+ times, sometimes 3X times as well.. It's a bitch... So I am quitting. No more Unleashing Vengeance. Won't have time to do anymore anyway due to something else in my life anyway... (A job I may be getting soon).


Here is the documentary for this cd...

here is the link to the cd.

Here is a documentary for the making of the last cd...

Here is the video for the title track of the current cd...

RIP Unleashing Vengeance 2002-2018....

Unleashing Vengeance records it's final CD....

3 Days ago me and Kirk S. wrote 20 new songs for the last cd for unleashing vengeance. We then split up and that left me with the duty of doing vocals and mixing the final tracks for a new album, which I am calling the final crusade. Since Kirk decided to split up with Me afterwards, due to me not wanting to continue the band, he will join some other local Boston Rock/Metal band later. Unleashing Vengeance then had it's final recording session for a full album today when my parents were out.

Since I didn't know how long they would be out and at what time, I had to get up really early this morning. Way too early.... I waited patiently for my parents to leave so I could record vocals... And I started working on a documentary showing off what I was doing at the same time... I started filming myself around Noon and showed off me recording lead vocals around 12:30. By 2 PM the cd was fully recorded... I had it fully mixed by tonight...

It's over. Unleashing vengeance's final cd is done. It's called the Final Crusade and has 11 songs on it.
2 of those 11 are instrumentals. The other 9 got vocals and were recorded today. Came out good minus the production, which could be better...

Here is a little sample from the new cd.... The best track that was recorded...

Anyway... This cd has amazing music but the production has issues, like the last few... Vocals were recorded way too quiet... You can barely hear them and there is some clipping issues here and there... But besides that it's fine. Songs were fun to record.... I ended up doing backing vocals for a few songs last night before going to bed early so I could get up early this morning...

Music wise, this cd is a mix of Blackened Thrash and Symphonic Metal.  Some songs are one style others are the other, a few are a hybrid mix. A few have folk melodies but that is rare on this cd anyway. More have classical styled melodies than folk melodies. Vocals are a mix of thrash and black metal vocals plus some clean vocals on 2-3 songs...

This is the last full unleashing vengeance cd that will be done. But don't worry, there will be 2 more releases for Unleashing Vengeance, a greatist hits compilation and an EP.....

Since Unleashing Vengeance is done, I decided that I would continue my solo project Homcidal Hammerfist in it's wake... There will be a new album for HH by the End of the month....

Link to Download the new Album:

Unleashing vengeance returns as a 2 piece and makes plans to record as many albums as possible...

Ok here is some good news for Unleashing Vengeance fans... The breakup we had was only temporary. We parted with our drummer - Peter Fletcher....  We decided to split up but come back later to do a few more cd's for the summer... Starting with a new one Me and Kirk "Captain Crunch" Stabbati are working on now... The new lineup is stable for now... I ended up taking the role of drummer again, something I have done in the past.  I actually did the drums on all recent cd's by Unleashing vengeance (Cosmos and later).  So this is no different...

Me and kirk started jamming some new songs out today... We recorded tracks for 8 new songs for a new album which now has a title "I fall"...  The music for this new cd, is frankly, Amazing. It is the third we did with a full on blackened thrash feel to it. The actual black metal parts are absolutely stunning on this cd.... The thrash parts are quite nice as well..  It sounds great!

I filmed an update several hours after kirk and I finished mixing tracks... Here it is... It's on Dailymotion rather than youtube. I've jumped from Youtube to dailymotion over youtube issues so that's why this update is there...  Watch the update, I showed off previews of the new music there...

It's good to be back. Unleashing vengeance had a little split up last weak after recording Dawn of Stupidity.  We had to go back to square one. I somehow got kirk on board with doing more stuff with UV for a while... Since he helped with every single UV cd out there, including old shit from 2002, it felt natural to have him doing guitars again. No one else can do the riffs I need for UV. Not even guitar gods like Wylde could pull this off.

This could be the best damn thrash cd ever recorded people. it's that good.  It's complex, emotional, speedy, dark sounding,  CATCHY, and has tons of black metal elements thrown in. Some songs lack keyboards... I chose not to do keyboards for a few tracks...  Decided leads needed to be added in in places. I played some guitar on this cd doing lead work on tracks 2 and 4.

Anyway, I hope this cd comes out good. It won't be released till next monday at the latest. Still up in the air.

 

New Unleashing Vengeance CD Recorded today....

Today I worked on a new unleashing vengeance cd I wrote with the other UV guys 3 days ago.... This one is a completely different animal then the last cd we wrote together which was Slaughter the Innocent.  This one is a Blackened Thrash CD....

Entitled Dawn of Stupidity it focuses on controversial and personal lyrics that fall into similar categories... It's not a concept album but the some of the songs have similar concepts...  Track 1 is an intro followed by track 2 which is a thrashy opener about the censorship of comic books in the 1940's by Fredric Wertham and the comic code.  Track 3 comes up next and is much more black metal oriented. It talks about the BS claim that all metal bands are racist or sexist, especially black metal ones. Track 4 hits you like a rock with thrashy as hell riffs.  It's about a personal incident with someone who pretended to be a friend, yet harassed when I said I wasn't friendly with all my nephews and demanded I talk a job he offered. What an ass!

Track 5 is much more black metal oriented, at least in it's first half. The second half is a lot more thrashy. The whole song is around 9 minutes long and it's the longest song on the album.  Lyrically it's about trolling by gaming communities, something I've been a victim of.  Track 6 is the first about a concept 3 songs on the album deal with, the moral panic surrounding video game violence after the Parkland School Shooting. Track 6 itself is about Matt bevin blaming video games for the shooting. Track 7 is an instrumental and is about how russian bots fueled the moral panic or even created it. Track 8 is about  how the President wants to lock up all Autistic people in mental institutions.  It's very personal. The final track is about the game duke nukem 3d.

I think the cd came out good.. It has echoey vocals which are a bit quiet and hard to hear at times. One track has some minor clipping issues.. The rest are fine...  I had to remix it to fix it and unfortunately the songs on jamendo from the cd are the unfixed versions for now... Doesn't really matter though.... Here is a link to the cd...

New Unleashing Vengeance cd is released as a solo effort, and pushes the band into Black Metal Territory

Unleashing Vengeance news here people. Unleashing vengeance went through a big breakup but don't worry, UV is NOT dead...   All band members but me (Zakk Asshole) Left  the band... That left me to shore up things and make Unleashing Vengeance a solo project...

So I decided to write the first Solo Project Unleashing Vengeance album last night... I composed it with a certain goal in mind... See I had seen some cool videos showing off sounds the planets in our solar system make... I decided to use these sounds (which were not copyrighted) as a base to write new music... I thought "lets do a concept album about the solar system" and mix in the sounds from the planets into the songs about the planets... I wrote 10 songs:

Track 1: Sol : The Lifegiver (About the Sun)
Track 2: Mercury : The Deadly World
Track 3: Venus : The Melter of Lead
Track 4: Earth : The Origins of Man
Track 5: Mars : The Cold Desert
Track 6: Mighty Jupiter
Track 7: Saturn : The Ringed Giant
Track 8: Uranus : The Mysterious World
Track 9: Neptune : The Frigid Stormy World
Track 10: Pluto : The Lost One

Each song was composed with a very eerie creepy vibe, using folk melodies that were quite oriental sounding at times, but played on high reverberated lead guitars using tremelo picking.  The Rhythm Guitars were done by Kirk but He is no longer a member any more.  He will join me again to help do rhythm guitars on the next UV as well...

Overall the album came out really good.. Each song is different..

Track 1 is a folk metal instrumental with mostly acoustic guitars done in an American folk style.
Track 2 is a melodic thrash song with a heavy melodeth style.
Track 3 is similar but slower and is much more evil sounding. Some folk melodies are added in later
but they sound creepy.
Track 4 is another American Folk Music Instrumental
Track 5 is a fast thrashy Oriental Metal Song
Track 6 is an epic 11 minute long Atmospheric Black Metal Song with Orchestral Elements
Track 7 is a fast technical thrash song
Track 8 is a very progressive melodeth/thrash song with a folk melody in it too.
Track 9 is a blackened thrash song which is sort of sinister sounding
Track 10 is a brutal blackened thrash song to end the cd.

I think the cd came out great.. It sounds a lot different, because it uses black metal vocals but besides that it's pretty cool... Due to Time Contains I had no choice but to do BM vocals for this, which I have gotten good at lately. Good Vocal Performance.... I like the music a lot for this cd, which you can hear here... Get the cd here...

Rancid Abomination releases it's final CD "The Wrath of Hell" which is a throwback to oldschool Rancid Abomination stuff that was Blackened Thrash!

Good news people... I just finished another new Rancid Abomination CD.... This one is entitled "The Wrath of Hell" and it is a concept album based on the story of the Legendary FPS game Doom.  It is also a lot lot different than our last 2 cd's "Staring into the Eyes of Madness" and "Metaphysical torment", being a much more raw, thrashy cd with far far less Windir Influences, Summoning Influences and other similar influences....


I originally wrote all the music for the cd last night... I didn't want this one to sound like the last 2. I listened to them and they don't really sound like Rancid Abomination Cd's. They have the melodies needed but lack the thrashy riffs, intense drumming and sick lyrics.  The drumming is too experimental on them and the thrashy rhythm guitars are replaced by black metal chords... I didn't like that... Rancid Abomination was supposed to be different than most black metal bands, not taking influences from them, so In a fit of disappointment I wrote the music for the new cd last night..

I decided to go down an oldschool route taking influences from old 2004-2005 Rancid Abomination only, like stuff I no longer have thanks to hard drive failures, like the cd's "Abhorrance and disgust", "CD 5" and others... I wrote very thrashy black metal with power metal touches and decided to change the production of the cd to be very close to what stuff in 2004 sounded like, using reverb on guitars and no amp simulator this time to make it sound more like a black metal cd.  The song you see below is an example of what the new cd sound like....

I ended up writing 6 songs, and 1 was a massive instrumental that came out ok... All the others were really good though. The title track was actually the instrumental... The first song sounds really haunting and evil... Track 2 is heavy as hell... Track 3 is more uplifting... Track 4 is a massive symphonic black/thrash song, the next song is really fast and heavy and has cool melodies, and the final song has an exotic sound to it that is slower and yet  very mystical sounding...

Lyrically track 1 is about the demons of hell finding out the anomalies on Phobos and Deimos (in the doom story) are being used by humans to teleport from one moon to the other. They then plot to start a demon invasion.... Track 2 is about how the demon leader (a cyberdemon) kills and posesses humans who went through the anomalies, turning them into former humans that attack mars in track 3, which is about the demonic invasion of phobos and the marines call to send flynn taggart to phobos.. Track 4 is the epic title track... Track 5 is about Flynn taggarts journey through Phobos and Deimos... It references phobos anomaly, Deimos, The Cyberdemon in Tower of Babel and more. Track 6 is about Flynn taggart's journey through hell and the showdown with the Spidermastermind boss...

The style of the new cd is something I really dig, it sounds a lot like oldschool RA is supposed to sound like... In fact it is so good that I think it is equally good as Abhorrance and disgust... That's amazing...

That's the good news, all of what I just said in this article up to this point..

Here's the bad news... This is Definitely the last Rancid Abomination CD. I simply cannot do any more... I don't have time... It sucks... But at least the last cd was amazing, right?

Official music video for track 1:

Link to download new album:
http://www.noisetrade.com/rancidabomination/the-wrath-of-hell-2017

NEW Unleashing Vengeance cd "Slaughter the Innocent" released!

Well... Since Unleashing Vengeance got back together as a band last week, we've been working hard on a new cd.  Entitled Slaughter the Innocent, the cd is our latest foray into thrashy folk metal. Folk metal you say? Well the decision to write folk metal was not easy. See there is a lot of cheezy folk metal bands out there... Korpiklaani, Finntroll, etc.  Did NOT want Unleashing vengeance to sound like them at ALL... BUT unleashing vengeance has used folk melodies in the past in it's music on guitar so the jump was not that easy to do.... We just had to do it in a non cheezy way... So I relied on a mix of three non-cheezy folk melodies.... American Folk Melodies, Scandinavian Folk melodies (NOT Finnish), and some non-european ones... The result was amazing. The new cd flawlessly mixes those folk melodies with RAW Blackened thrash metal.  And it's very melodic but quite heavy at the same time. nonetheless..

Songs on the new album are quite varied:

Track 1 "Slow Torment" is a blackened thrash song with some American Folk Melodies in it in the break only. It's slower than the others but it's not really slow...

Track 2 "Death to the Craptardery" is much faster and in your face. It's got a killer thrash riff to open it. Unfortunately the vocals have issues...

Track 3 "Death to Tarnsman" is a normal thrash song that sounds like 2012 era unleashing vengeance. Lyrics are quite personal on this one.. It's about some idiot who trolls people who make "bad" levels for a video game while he plays them online... Stupid idiot is what he is, He did it  to me so he sucks... Yet  they worship the fucker. Vocals came out great...

Track 4 "Impeach that Donald Trump Fucker Already" is one of the more interesting ones on the cd musically. It's a technical thrash song with a cool melody and an obvious lyrical theme... This is one of the most controversial songs UV has written along with track 3.  Vocals came out great. This does have an American folk melody thrown in in the chorus...

Track 5 is an instrumental and is the first one to have a strong oriental music theme thrown in. The rest on the cd do this.. Inspiration came from Nile.  Melodies like this were always in Unleashing Vengeance's music but now they are even more pronounced.

Track 6 "Dipshit music service" is about us being kicked off of jamendo along with my other bands.. Stupid... They deserve this... It's similar to track 5, thrashy oriental folk metal.

Track 7 and 8 are instrumentals and one is based on Scandinavian folk music (track 7) while the other is based on Oriental folk music. Both are inspired by the doom addon epic 2. The addon has you play someone fighting through Egypt in tombs and stuff and he runs into a space ship that takes him to outer space, stargate style. In space while fighting space aliens, he dies. He "wakes up" on a beach nearby another Egyptian tomb and after fighting his way through several more, you can feel that this last third of the addon is not in Egypt but in an Egyptian afterlife called Amenthes.  In this afterlife, souls are put through trials to see if they are pure... One involves going to a firey pit where a crocadile headed demon eats your heart of you aren't pure... That pit is in one of the levels later on and later on you end up going through a mortuary and there it tells you you died... Track 7 is about this mortuary and track 8 is about everything before it. It's a brilliant doom addon...

Track 9 is about how loudwire.com is stupid and they refuse to recognize the following metal bands for being great in their stupid "best band per country" list: Windir, Persuader, Summoning, Harlott, Unleashing vengeance and more... I decided to write about it. This is mostly a melodeth song but does have a folky ending...

I released the cd on noisetrade yesterday, less than 2 hours after it got recorded. While the album came out good, I am slightly disappointed with the production. The vocal production is quite off. I don't know if it's because I am using an old Mic that is dying or something but it doesn't sound quite as good as old unleashing vengeance stuff from 2013. Didn't do what I did to it then but I tried to and it sounded horrible, so I had to produce the cd a totally different way.

I did several youtube videos of unleashing vengeance songs for our youtube channel which you can find here...  Below I will link several of them. Among them were videos showing off 4 songs from the new album, and a music video  for the best song on the album.  I also followed 78 people on our new twitter account and only 4 followed me back and 1 is an anonymous person so I have no clue whether that person is a craptard or not. Wish I could block them... So if you like the stuff linked below or our new album on noisetrade, follow us, we need the followers on twitter desperately..

Album download on noisetrade: Here

Our New Twitter page: Here


Music video for Slow Torment (The best song on the new album):

Pathway to Amenthes (The Scandinavian Folk Metal Instrumental)





The Rediculous and the Absurd II (The other instrumental that is about Epic 2)

The Latest Update for the band:

EDIT : It seems Jamendo did NOT kick off our bands from their service. I don't know what the hell happened. One day we could not log in and the bands were all gone from search results and now we're back.... Have no clue what happened..... Maybe the sites were offline for a while? Sorry Jamendo...