BENEDICTION: Back Catalog To Be Reissued

June 18, 2008

Long-running UK extreme metallers BENEDICTION have issued the following update:

"Our label, Nuclear Blast, will be re-releasing our album back catalogue this summer. The better news is that it will be two albums in one package on the three releases: 'Subconscious Terror' [1990] / 'The Grand Leveller' [1991], 'Transcend The Rubicon' [1993] / 'The Dreams You Dread' [1995], 'Grind Bastard' [1998] / 'Organised Chaos' [2001]. All three releases will come in nice new packaging. The release date for all the double album releases will be August 8th. For more information about these releases and where to buy them, click here."

BENEDICTION recently unveiled the cover artwork for its new album, "Killing Music", due on August 22 via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2001's "Organized Chaos" was produced by ANAAL NATHRAKH mastermind Mike Kenney and features several guest musicians, including Karl Willets (BOLT THROWER),Kelly Shaefer (ATHEIST),Billy Gould (ex-FAITH NO MORE),The Fog (FROST),Markus Staiger (Nuclear Blast Records owner) and Thorsten Zahn from Metal Hammer Germany.

A limited-edition version of the album will include two bonus tracks and a DVD.

"Killing Music" track listing:

01. Intro
02. The Grey Man
03. Controlopolis (Rats In The Mask)
04. Killing Music
05. They Must Die Screaming
06. Dripping With Disgust
07. Wrath And Regret
08. As Her Skin Weeps
09. Cold, Deathless, Unrepentant
10. Immaculate Faade
11. Burying The Hatchet
12. Beg, You Dogs
13. Betrayer (bonus track)*
14. They Bleed (bonus track)*
15. Seeing Through My Eyes (BROKEN BONES cover song)
16. Largactyl (AMEBIX cover song)

* Only available on the limited edition

Commented bass player Frank Healy: "Sound-wise we aimed for something nice and rough. We got a bit sick of all these 'polished'-sounding albums."

The cover artwork was created by Smoking Beagle Designs.

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