KATAKLYSM: Skeletons Of Four New Songs Ready

July 4, 2007

KATAKLYSM frontman Maurizio Iacono has issued the following update:

"Yesterday [Monday, July 2] I met up with J-F [Dagenais; guitar] at his new big house — he just bought a new house next to Steph [Stéphane Barbe; bass] and Max [Duhamel; drums] and it's real nice — and he is building his studio downstairs where we will track most of the album. We starting working on more riffs, and like an old habit things started flowing immediately, no rust and all inspired stuff. Stephane came over later in the day and he brought a bunch of hooks and riffs he had been taping at his house and I was blown away by some of his stuff; 'Shadows & Dust'-era type feel (he wrote must of that album with me). We went to Stephane's place in the late afternoon and hooked up with Max and started working on the title track, 'Prevail'. We are that type of band that goes straight for the jugular first, so we got some massive brainstorming going with some colds ones and got the song completed by night time, Max got that gravity blast down to a science, let me tell you. Killer song and its fucking aggressive, a lot more going on then songs written on 'In the Arms of Devastation' (2006),I really like the direction the album is taking, and no worries, it's pure KATAKLYSM. We already had skeletons ready for four songs but this one is the first completed one, and it's a total pit-slammer."

Metal Reigns has posted a 20-minute audio interview with KATAKLYSM guitarist Jean-Francois Dagenais, conducted during the band's recent Invaluable Darkness Tour with DIMMU BORGIR. Download and listen to the interview at this location (MP3 file, 6 MB).

KATAKLYSM recently decided to "immortalize" the character that was featured on the cover of their most recent album, "In the Arms of Devastation", and have him re-appear as the main character — dubbed "The Heartbeast" — on their next offering, titled "Prevail".

Commented KATAKLYSM vocalist Maurizio Iacono: "We had so [much] killer feedback on the artwork but especially on the character that we decided to keep him as the band's fifth band member... kinda like IRON MAIDEN did with 'Eddie.' We have the perfect concept for the next album art... it will be bad-ass!"

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