World Under Blood: Tactical – new album

WORLD UNDER BLOOD, a project founded in 2006 by CKY guitarist and vocalist Deron Miller and drummer Tim Yeung, debut album entitled ‘Tactical’ has been released in North America on July 26th, 2011; the album awaits its European release on July 29th, 2011 via Nuclear Blast Records. The album's producer, James Murphy, commented on the project the following way: “WORLD UNDER BLOOD bridge a gap between genres that has never been bridged… a few have tried with mixed results, but this is the first real resounding success of using brutal, blasting death metal with a melodic American rock vibe and it opens a door that will turn into a floodgate.” The band has uploaded three songs from the new CD on their official MySpace; Decibel Magazine subscribers can stream the entire album right here. ‘Tactical’ features ten songs - including two covers; MEDADETH's ‘Wake Up Dead’ and MELEVOLENT CREATON's ‘Alliance Of War’ (iTunes exclusive). Album's artwork was created by Pär Olofsson. Check out the album preview here (YouTube), buy the album here (Nuclear Blast USA), here (Nuclear Blast Europe), or via Amazon and/or iTunes.

Deron Miller, joined by drummer Tim Yeung (DIVINE HERESY, MORBID ANGEL, ex-HATE ETERNAL, ex DECREPIT BIRTH) had posted a couple of project's songs on their MySpace page as early as 2006, with another track following a year later. “The songs came so fast,” remembers Miller, “it didn’t matter that some of the parts had weird time changes, or difficult arrangements. Tim was so easy to work with and understood immediately what I was trying to do. I was blown away. While we were writing those first three songs, I got a strange call from FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares. He told me that Tim was no good and would probably steal from me or do something shady, and you gotta love Dino because that was just Dino the businessman who was just preparing to yank Tim right out from under me for his new band DIVINE HERESY. I don’t blame Dino at all for that because it was something that I probably would have done, and besides, it was a better paying job than WORLD UNDER BLOOD was at that point.” Joined by bassist Risha Eryavac (ex-DECREPIT BIRTH) and guitarist Luke Jaeger (SLEEP TERROR), WORLD UNDER BLOOD would record another four new songs in 2008 and would complete the record after signing with Nuclear Blast in 2009. “The remaining six songs were instrumentals for a very long time. I wanted to be very careful with what I came up with lyrically,” recalls the band's mastermind. In 2010, Deron Miller finished writing lyrics and flew to James Murphy's house in Lakeland, Florida to track all remaining vocals. ‘Tactical’ was finally handed in April, 2011, almost five years after the band's formation.

WORLD UNDER BLOOD: Dead And Still In Pain – courtesy of Nuclear Blast Records