Three weeks into their ongoing 54-shows-in-54-days co-headlining tour with Enforcer, the Los Angeles-based thrash quintet WARBRINGER has released a new single, “Firepower Kills.” The song can be streamed on Spotify, Apple Music and other digital platforms. A lyric video – created by Hannah Left Wright of Shadowborn Group – can be viewed HERE!
“Firepower Kills” – the digital cover for which was designed by Hugo Juarez of Heavy Defender Studios – serves as the first official taste of WARBRINGER’s forthcoming sixth album, due to be released via Napalm Records in February. The group has been playing the track live during their current tour with Enforcer, which kicked off in San Diego on Sept. 5 and continues tonight at Toronto’s Velvet Underground. MetalSucks recently posted fan-filmed footage of the group’s performances of the song in both San Francisco and Sacramento, calling it “an aggressive, thrashy number that seems to have done a fine job of keeping the kids a-moshin’… it’s reassuring to know the can still crank out thrash riffs with the best of ’em.”
WARBRINGER’s new album will serve as the follow-up to 2017’s “Woe To The Vanquished,” which Metal Hammer said “delivers all the pounding riffage and machine-gun tempos a thrash freak could want.” The as-yet-untitled new record – which was helmed by returning producer Mike Plotnikoff (In Flames, Fear Factory, All That Remains) and mastered once again by Howie Weinberg (Anthrax, Slayer, Overkill) – will be coming out on Napalm Records and marks the band’s first full-length release with bassist Chase Bryant (Oni), who joined the group last year.
“’Firepower Kills’ is the album opener and is a rapid-fire thrash burner, with both lyrics and music following the theme of the rapidly evolving and really frightening side of technology. We’ve been playing this tune nightly on the current tour and it’s been highly well-received,” explains Warbringer vocalist John Kevill. “We are right in the middle of this massive North American tour with Enforcer and have left a wake of fire over much of the continent. More updates on Warbringer incoming… yes, the future looks bright!”
Over the past dozen years, WARBRINGER has released five acclaimed albums of intense, aggressive thrash and toured with a who’s who of metal, including Megadeth, Testament, Obituary, Napalm Death, Exodus, Suffocation, Overkill, Arch Enemy, Kreator, Soilwork, Municipal Waste, Skeletonwitch, Destruction, Nevermore, Symphony X, Iced Earth and Death Angel, among others. More information on the group’s forthcoming album will be unveiled in the coming weeks.
WARBRINGER on tour:
09/25/2019 Velvet Underground – Toronto, ON
09/26/2019 Mavericks – Ottawa, ON
09/27/2019 Bar Le Magog – Sherbrooke, QC
09/28/2019 Rock Cafe Le Stage – Trois-Rivieres, QC
09/29/2019 L’Anti – Quebec City, QC
09/30/2019 Foufounes Electriques – Montreal, QC
10/01/2019 The Foundry – Philadelphia, PA
10/02/2019 Dingbatz – Clifton, NY
10/03/2019 The Chance – Poughkeepsie, NY
10/04/2019 Kingsland – Brooklyn, NY
10/05/2019 Blackthorn 51 – Elmhurst, NY
10/06/2019 Fish Head Cantina – Halethorpe, MD
10/07/2019 Cattivo – Pittsburgh, PA
10/08/2019 Canal Club – Richmond, VA
10/09/2019 Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN
10/10/2019 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
10/11/2019 Motorco – Durham, NC
10/12/2019 The Haven – Winter Park, FL
10/13/2019 O’Malley’s – Margate, FL
10/14/2019 Crowbar – Ybor City, FL
10/15/2019 Southport Music Hall – New Orleans, LA
10/16/2019 Scout Bar – Houston, TX
10/17/2019 Rock Box – San Antonio, TX
10/18/2019 Come And Take It Live – Austin, TX
10/19/2019 Trees – Dallas, TX
10/20/2019 Aftershock – Merriam, KS
10/21/2019 The Shrine – Tulsa, OK
10/22/2019 89th Street Collective – Oklahoma City, OK
10/23/2019 Launch Pad – Albuquerque, NM
10/24/2019 Herman’s Hideaway – Denver, CO
10/25/2019 Liquid Joe’s – Salt Lake City, UT
10/26/2019 Backstage Bar and Billiards – Las Vegas, NV
10/27/2019 The Rock – Tucson, AZ
10/28/2019 Club Red – Tempe, AZ
