Before heading out on this summer’s Warped tour with his band As I Lay Dying, singer Tim Lambesis will put in some hours co-producing the new album by hardcore pugilists Sworn Enemy.
The disc, titled Maniacal, will be also be produced by Joey Z (Life of Agony) and is scheduled for release this fall. Daniel Castleman will mix.
While the album will include plenty of Sworn Enemy’s hardcore trample, it will also include a bounty of thrash riffs redolent of Exodus, Testament and early Megadeth. “The new songs we have been working on are some of the best s–t we have done to date and they seem to keep gettin’ better,” says singer Sal Loco. “It has more of an aggressive feel to it with lots of thrash thrown in there.”
Lambesis isn’t the only Dying dude who has been laying down with Sworn Enemy. Since the group is currently between drummers, As I Lay Dying’s Jordan Mancino played all of the drums on the record, tracking at Big Fish Studios in San Diego. Tentative track titles for Maniacal include: “A Place Of Solace,” “After The Smoke Clears,” “Same Faces, Different Places” and “Weather the Storm.”
Surely there are new videos to come, but here, from The Beginning of the End, is “Scared of the Unknown”:
