CZAR: First Song Released

CZAR, the new Peoria, Illinois-based metal band featuring former AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK drummer Ryan Thomas and WITH DEAD HANDS RISING vocalist Burke VanRaalte, has made its first song, "Spilling Flesh", available for streaming on the group's MySpace page.

The members of CZAR first came together in late 2009 with a collective vision; utilize a diverse array of musical and artistic influence, and create a unique and crushingly heavy blend of modern melodic death, thrash, and doom metal, with an abrasive injection of punk and hardcore that never lacks in aggression.

Setting them apart from the vast majority of other up-and-coming bands are CZAR's already deep-rooted ties within the metal and hardcore community. VanRaalte has spent the better half of the new millennium touring the nation with several of today's modern metal heavyweights, and has countless live performances in virtually every state and/or providence in North America under his belt. Adding to the experience is Ryan Thomas; acclaimed drummer of Illinois groove metal heavy hitters THE SERPENT SON and former touring drummer for one of deathcore's most recognized bands, AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK. On guitars are the wind-milling shred-masters Zac Livingston and CJ Johnson who bring to the table nothing but the most hateful riffing and undeniably blistering solos. Trent Clifton rounds out the band's lineup with his unmistakable gut-rumbling bass lines. These proud axe men are not without their share of contributions to the genre either; all of them having years of time invested in one or more music projects such as HIGH TIDE IN TUCSON, SICK and A WRETCHED CREATION while growing up within the local and Midwest music scene.