KILLER BE KILLED - Killer Be Killed

KILLER BE KILLED has come together even as their main projects hit a collective stride: Max just released his ninth studio album with SOULFLY, »Savages«, to many of the strongest reviews of his legendar y career. THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN’s »One Of Us Is The Killer« debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Hard Rock Album chart earlier this year. MASTODON’s most recent album, »The Hunter«, was Album Of The Year in Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Rock Sound, Classic Rock, Ter- rorizer and Total Guitar in 2011.

Featuring lead vocal contributions and lyrics from Puciato, Cavalera and Sanders, the ag- gressive assemblage of songs run the gamut from percussive crowd-inciting brutality, jagged basement show style carnage and melodic, off-kilter hooks. Sanders described the band as “a perfect blend of a legend, a freak, a beast and a wookie.”

It’s all delivered through a prism of metal his- tory conjuring the raw aggression of SEPUL- TURA’s earliest rumblings, together with the progressively esoteric shamanistic approach of MASTODON and just a hint of the disso- nance of THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN. It’s a set of songs with more traditional structure than most of them are known to perform, with a drum performance from a master of preci- sion, power and groove.