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NEW UNEARTH SONG, NEW UNEARTH BEER BONG

 Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at 10:30am by

Metal Blade is now accepting pre-orders for the new Unearth album, Darkness in the Light. And, as is de rigeur these days, those pre-orders are available in a variety of attractive packages — although, clearly, one is more attractive than the others: the one that comes with a beer bong. That has to be the best piece of merch I’ve seen in some time… and it’s certainly band appropriate, too. I wish it said something funnier on it than just the title of the record, but I’m willing to let that slide because, well, more bands need to seriously consider making beer bongs. Beer bongs should be the new patches.

And — oh yeah, lest we forget! — the band has also released the first single from this latest offering. It’s called “Eyes of Black,” and you can stream it below. (Hmmm… “Black”… “Darkness”… I’m sensing a theme here.) The band hasn’t changed their sound very much, but when you sound like Unearth that’s really not a bad thing. I’m especially fond of the groovy, Pantera-esque section that starts around the 2:03 mark

Darkness in the Light comes out July 5 on Metal Blade.

-AR

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  • Matt

    This gives me hope for unearth.

  • epyon396

    It sucks this comes out in July, cause as much as I like Unearth, no music will have a chance for me to listen to it after Ritual comes out :(

    • bozium

      haha for real

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Vince-Decker/100002225040320 Vince Decker

      you said it! except im not huge on these guys. this aint bad. i def stopped listening after seeing the faceless song below and came back

  • Baron

    Beer bongs are lame.

    • Ziltoid Sucks

      False.

  • Reigningblud

    Good stuff. Unearth is always consistent and this should be another good album.

  • Christ

    Hey look, Unearth released another song that sounds like everything they’ve done for the last ten years! We are reaching AC/DC-levels of monotony here, gentlemen.

    • Ziltoid Sucks

      Old school ISTEP question:
      AC/DC is awesome.
      Unearth’s songs sound exactly the same.
      AC/DC’s songs sound exactly the same.
      So…

      Unearth is AWESOME!!

  • Fufkin

    Good stuff – you know what you’re getting with Unearth, the variations bewteen albums aren’t huge. They’re consistent rather than spectacular.
    Always like the guitar playing a lot but I find his voice a little one speed after a while. Still great in small doses.

  • http://mthomassteele.tumblr.com M. Thomas Steele

    So they combined two awesome Testament song titles? “Eyes of Wrath” + “Souls of Black” = “Eyes of Black”?

    • Reigningblud

      What you don’t know is the the second song on the album is The Old Disorder. Must be a theme.

  • Jonathan

    Compared to the In-Flames single we heard yesterday this sounds spectacular.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Votypka/541093131 Jonathan Votypka

      1

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Toy/193302066 Daniel Toy

    They just had to put that fucking breakdown at the end…

  • some dude

    this sounds like every other unearth song, adam d is the worst producer, everything he does is SO DAMN FORMULAIC!!! thats why every kilswitch song is the same thing, i know exactly how the song will go and i havent even finished listening to it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Vince-Decker/100002225040320 Vince Decker

      ya man it is too damn predictable. i didnt finish this song cuz i got the gist of it. not terrible, but nothing i would purchase or listen to personally.

  • pee

    IMO this is new ground for Unearth. I think its great…and the solo is tastyasfuck

    • http://www.heavymetal.co.nz heavymetalnz

      yeah i agree, i never really clicked with them before, but I like this

  • fantasyoosh

    Good stuff. Loving the high-in-the-mix bass

  • El Jefe

    Really looking forward to listening to the rest of this album, The new drummer sounds on point! Dont get wrong Derek was good but really didnt bring the Metal. With Unearth you know what you get, a solid Metal Album from start to finish. Fuck all these sub genres.

    • The Overmatt

      A million times this. If one thing really dragged The March down for me it’s Derek’s drumming, especially compared to Justian’s stuff on In The Eyes of Fire. This is much better, then again it’s Justin Foley we’re talking about here.

  • The I

    Yep, it’s Unearth.

  • Anthony

    I’m loving this song.

  • Poopenshaft

    Sounds like every other Unearth song. Not necessarily a bad thing either.

  • Plasmaterial

    So it’s all good for Amon Amarth to put out the same album over and over again and everyone will automatically praise it (and rightly so, love AA) but yet Unearth get bashed for doing the same thing and being so consistently good? Pfftt. Maybe they should follow the lead of their peers in All That Remains and turn to shit with watered down, simplistic material.

    • The Overmatt

      People just need to learn to listen more closely. Unearth have evolved through each album, same as Amon Amarth. If you put The March up against The Oncoming Storm, it’s easy to tell that there’s a much bigger emphasis on leads now, and that’s just scratching the surface.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-Mckeon/528911995 Nick Mckeon

    At least it’s closer to the At the Gates source material, these guys have been writing shittier and shittier breakdowns for a while now. Go back to the thick guitars and dissonance please!

  • DecrystallizingReason

    Kind of over Unearth, however I’m going to buy the beer bong package in the hope that good sales figures will result in more metal bands making beer bongs. Let’s all do our part people; let’s make 2011 the year of the beer bong!

    • twistedfreak

      Hells yeah!