Bury Your Dead: Mosh ‘N’ Roll – new album / Slaughterhouse Five – new video

Listen to ‘Mosh ‘N’ Roll’, sixth album by American hardcore  group BURY YOUR DEAD, right here at AOL Music for as long as they’ll let you, and because BYD “will blast you with walls of sound, chainsaw guitars and damningly loud intentions”. ‘Mosh ‘N’ Roll’ is to be released tomorrow, August 2nd, 2011, through Mediaskare Records. ‘Mosh ‘N’ Roll’ marks the return of vocalist Mat Bruso and, if undrestood correctly, introduces new drummer Dustin Schoenhofer, even though the band's co-founder and long-time drummer Mark Castillo had recorded drums for the new album. As some will notice, all album tracks - with the exception of the title track - are named after Kurt Vonnegut works.

“All due respect to Myke Terry, who fronted BURY YOUR DEAD for a solid pair of albums,” [writes Revolver's Brandon Geist] “but this is the way the group is meant to sound. Terry's predecessor, Mat Bruso, is back at the mic, sounding like the fury and bile has been building up inside him since he left the band in 2007. That energy and some of the most ambitious dynamics the group has ever attempted make ‘Mosh ‘N’ Roll’ an 11-track force of nature.” [Read the rest of it here at Revolver Magazine]

BURY YOUR DEAD started in 2001 as a side project of guitarist Brendan “Slim” MacDonald and drummer Mark Castillo (both of metalcore band HAMARTIA). With the intention of focusing on “mosh-worthy” hardcore, and drawing inspiration from the likes of SEVENDUST and CROWBAR, the pair recruited bassist Steve Kent, second guitarist Jesse Viens, and vocalist Joe Krewko. The band soon caught the attention of German label Alveran Records, which released their debut album, 2003's ‘You Had Me At Hello’. The band members, though,  decided to go their separate ways shortly before the release. BURY YOUR DEAD eventually got together again, with new vocalist Mat Bruso and new second guitarist Eric Ellis to fill in the empty spots. Victory Records signed the band in 2004. Second full-length, ‘Cover Your Tracks’, consisting of tracks named after Tom Cruise movies, came out late that year, with ‘Beauty And The Breakdown’ – its songs titles being inspired by children's tales – following in 2006. With Aaron “Bubble” Patrick handling bass duties, BYD's Jason Suecof-produced third album received much praise from critics and listening public alike:

“It’s so unusual for a band like this to reveal something deeply emotional intentionally. There is no shock value here, just a complex morality fable played out over skin-flaying guitars and flailing out-of-control drums … This is straight-ahead, knotty, scorched earth nu-metal. The lyrics work in the context of the tale the band unfolds, and the precision and sheer abandon BYD plays with is invigorating, refreshing - and at übervolume - is brain pummeling to the point of submission. Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be?” [wondered AllMusic's Thom Jurek in his review]

BURY YOUR DEAD's self-titled album, released in 2008, was the first to feature Myke Terry on vocals. After replacing Ellis with new second guitarist Chris Towning, and after surviving a van accident, BYD released their fifth album in 2009, naming it ‘It’s Nothing Personal’. This was to be the band's last release on Victory Records, and the last record to feature Myke Terry on vocals.