AGANKAST Guitarist: '100% Thrash Metal — No Gimmicks Anymore'
December 26, 2006AGANKAST, the new British metal band featuring former ATOMKRAFT guitarist Rob Matthew, has begun work on its new album, tentatively titled "Walking with Angels - Running with Devils". According to Matthew, the upcoming set will be a two-disc double album and will signify "the end of our first era and a new beginning for the band. . . Disc one is an album of classic AGANKAST tracks, much in the vein of our first two CDs. The album was already written, but after our experiences at [the U.K.'s] Bloodstock [festival] and on the road in 2006, we were all considering turning AGANKAST into a full-on thrash metal band and this is where we are at now. Disc two, 'Running with Devils', is probably the best/fastest material I have ever been involved with. This second CD is speed from start to finish and we have posted two early mix versions of these songs at this location. The songs are 'Heathen' and 'This War', the first two tracks on the second disc new album, which will be complete by April 2007. It will be available to buy at Scotland's top mp3 download site, www.scotloads.com.
"If there has been one critisism of us that we have taken on board, it's been that we have been a mixed bag of metal… all good stuff, but we definitally wanted to simplify things and get down to basics now… and that for us is this. From this CD AGANKAST are now 100% a thrash metal band — no gimmicks anymore… just all-out war.
"'Running with Devils' should clock in at around forty minutes in length and everyone in and around the band is getting a real buzz from how it is sounding.
"You wanted thrash, people? We will give you THRASH."
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