That band had kind of run its course and I didn't plan on doing any more bands after we decided to break up, but I just couldn't stay out of the game. I had previously done a straight forward hardcore band called Break Away for about eight years prior to Mutually Assured Destruction forming. WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS OF MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION? Take a listen below via Bandcamp and then read our interview with Stallings about Mutually Assured Destruction's unique sonic DNA, his kinship with Blythe, the Richmond underground and much more.Īscension is out May 18th via Triple B Records and pre-orders are now live over at the label's Bandcamp.Īscension by Mutually Assured Destruction
Blythe and Stallings trade vocals over a monstrous riff that sounds straight out of LoG's As the Palaces Burn era, but it's played with a hardcore energy that makes it feel fresh and exciting rather than redundant.
The album's first single, "Spiritual Liberation," which we're premiering today, would have no trouble blasting out the monitors of a sludge show, which makes the guest feature from fellow Richmond OG Lamb of God's Randy Blythe incredibly apt.
The self-proclaimed "crossover doom" band - fronted by Ace Stallings, the ex-frontman of the straight-edge unit Break Away - are using hardcore's thrashier side as a foundation and building upon it with groove-metal riffage, Sabbathian chord progressions and Stallings' Southern-fried croon, which recalls singers like Corrosion of Conformity's Pepper Keenan, Life of Agony's Mina Caputo and Crowbar's Kirk Windstein.