VILE Founder Creates NINTH UNDERWORLD RECORDS

February 13, 2009

Colin Davis, founding member and songwriter of Californian brutal death metallers VILE, has announced the unveiling of his own record label, Ninth Underworld Records. The label's first release will be the as-yet-untitled fourth album from VILE. Remixed and remastered reissues of past VILE offerings will follow shortly afterwards in applicable territories.

Commented Davis: "After an extensive and unsatisfying search for a new label partner for VILE, I realized that the universe was making a clear statement to me. It was not only in the best interests of the band and myself, but it was in the best interests of the extreme metal world as a whole that I do this. We are leaving the time of centralized power and the music industry is vastly affected. Now is the time for independent bands and entrepreneurs to take control of their own musical destiny. I feel that I can do this job with more care and more intent than anybody else. True, I do not have the industry connections or money that a big label has, but I can focus clearly and constantly exactly where I need to and that is what will make this label work."

VILE's European street team leader, Kevin Rymen of Belgium, has partnered up with Davis and is hard at work establishing industry contacts and business partners. Ninth Underworld is seeking distribution options in all countries and territories as well as possible licensing deals. Interested parties may contact Colin Davis or Kevin Rymen through the label's MySpace page.

Davis claims that the new album will be VILE's most musically diverse. "I remember all of my favorite albums being quite varied in the musical styles that were incorporated," he says. "All of the great British, German and American bands had many different types of songs on their albums. Recently, that has stopped and we want to bring that diversity back to metal. Just like in real life, we have songs for different moods that capture many emotions. We are an extreme metal band, but that doesn't mean we have to play one type of song over and over."

Video footage of the drum-recording sessions can be viewed below.

VILE's new CD will be the follow-up to "The New Age of Chaos", which was released in North America in October 2005 via Unique Leader Records.

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/vile.

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