Reunited SACRIFICE Begins Writing New Material

SACRIFICE guitarist/vocalist Rob Urbinati has issued the following update:

"The process has begun. New SACRIFICE songs are being written and if they can be held up to our standards...they will be heard. We were always notorious for taking a really long time to write, hopefully this time it won't take as long. Joe [Rico, guitar] and Scott [Watts, bass] have sent me some devastating riff tapes, Gus [Pynn, drums] and myself will begin the process in November."

In other news, Urbinati was recently interviewed by Metal-Rules.com. An excerpt from the chat follows:

Metal-Rules.com: If you guys did put out a new album, would it be the classic SACRIFICE sound, or would it be somewhat updated?

Urbinati: I would say it's more on the side of classic SACRIFICE. I don't want to say there's new elements thrown in, because it makes people go "fuck, this sucks!," but there's not much of that. That's what we've talked about, too — as much as I love LAMB OF GOD or something, I don't want SACRIFICE to sound like that. I want it to sound like a thrash band. I don't want it to be a thrash band, with new influences. It has to be balls-out fuckin' thrash, from when you press play until it stops. If it's not gonna be that, we're just gonna say "Fuck it."

Metal-Rules.com: If you guys did the new album, would you ever tour again?

Urbinati: I doubt it. If we were to do that, it would be a couple of shows here and there. We would never do a full-scale tour. Our lives have changed too much. We have families and stuff, and we can't just leave work and say "Okay, we're going on tour, this is our new career." We're all like 40 years old — this isn't the time to be picking up our music career. As much as I, and probably the rest of the guys, would like to, it's not reality. We can't feed our families with that. If we could, we would do it, but it's just not there.

Metal-Rules.com: If this [Day Of The Equinox II festival in Toronto] is the final show as SACRIFICE, are there other musical projects that you would start?

Urbinati: I write all the time at home. I've got tons and tons of songs written, not necessarily SACRIFICE-style, but at some point I'll get something together again. Even if SACRIFICE does get together and do another album, I'm sure I'll do something else, and at some point put something else out. I just have it in me to do that — I love to write music and play in a band, all that stuff. Something will happen at some point I'm sure.

Read the entire interview at Metal-Rules.com.