Glassjaw’s place in the pantheon of rawwrrr metal is certainly up for debate, but there isn’t any doubt that they’ve had a huge impact on today’s music scene. When our own Sergeant D wrote an extensive history of metalcore/screamo he omitted Glassjaw, an important band to both scenes indeed, but once upon a time ex-Roadrunner / current Century Media A&R honcho Mike Gitter wrote a guest column for us in which he praised the band and their seminal album Everything You Ever Want to Know About Silence.

Glassjaw have been working on their third album, the first since 2002′s Worship and Tribute, for what seems like forever. Rumors have been circulating since 2006 and the band has done occasional tours in the meantime, but until now there hasn’t been any new music; Metal Insider alerted us to the fact that the new song “All Good Junkies Go To Heaven” is now circulating online. The ever-reliable Wikipedia tells me that the band released a 7″ vinyl single forthe song at the UK’s Hevy Fest on August 8th and that it will ship everywhere else on August 20, 2010 via Merch Direct.

So, check it out and let us know what you think. I’ve never been huge on Glassjaw but I’ve always respect them, and I love Daryl Palumbo’s voice.

-VN

[After we completed our much ballyhooed 21 Best Metal Albums of the 21st Century... So Far countdown last month, we invited all of the inhabitants of the MS Mansion to submit an "Albums We Wish Made the List" piece. Former Roadrunner Records A&R guru Mike Gitter, who was a member of the voting panel that constructed the list, asked us if he could submit an album he wished made the list as well, and we've posted his writeup below. Whether taken as part of our "21 Best" list or on its own as a regular editorial piece, it's a great look into a great album. Enjoy. -Ed.]

Boys will be boys…and boys get fucked over. And they hate girls. And instead of acting like a buncha homos, ‘writing love on their arms’ or any of those slogans you seen them pussies flagging t-shirts for at Bamboozle, Glassjaw laid down the bitchslap in-extremis. Everything You Ever Want To Know About Silence is a friggin’ landmark. A record that broke with their local Long Island hardcore tradition – counting lurvely lads from the likes of Silent Majority and that little know Jew Crew Sons of Abraham – and staked out some entirely new sonic turf. Think Bad Brains rapturous riff-o-rama, V.O.D.’s blazing intensity and a razor sharp lyrical sense from not-so-sucka MC Darryl Palumbo, now of dance-rockers Head Automatica.
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