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There’s a lot of curiosity floating around with regards to Through the Eyes of the Dead’s new album, Skepsis. I loved their last release, Malice, but there have been quite a few line-up changes since then, and as a fan you’re never quite sure what that will do for a band’s sound.

But this bootleg footage of a new song, “Manifest,” is encouraging. The quality ain’t perfect, but it ain’t bad, and the song sounds like a rhino-stampede of heaviness. It has a good hook, too. This bodes well for the rest of the album.

Skepsis will come out next year (in January, maybe?) on Prosthetic.

-AR

[via Blabbermouth]

I haven’t done much posting today. I’m having a shitty day, alright? One of those days when useless bullshit brought upon you by pathetic, ignorant low lives ends up eating all your time. This is one of these days where everyone in my immediate vicinity is lucky I don’t own a gun, or you’d all be watching me on the news later tonight as I was dragged away for offing a room full of people.

So THANK FUCKING FUCK for some good news: Through the Eyes of the Dead have finally announced a title. It’s called Skepsis, which is a (I’m assuming deliberate) misspelling of the word “scepsis.” Look it up, motherfuckers.

There’s still no release date, but the cover art, which you see above, is by the always awesome Paul Romano.

Meanwhile, TTEOTD are about to hit the road with Despised Icon. Get dates here.

-AR

I have kind of a love/hate relationship with Twitter, but I have to admit, it’s become a useful source of information.

So. Through the Eyes of the Dead, whose 2007 album Malice was actually capable of killing small animals, have suffered through some fairly heavy-duty line-up changes since that album’s release (including going through two vocalists inside of a year). The band endures, though, and are currently recording a new album. Meanwhile, they tweeted/twittered/twatted/twote/whatever that they’re playing four dates in August. I highly recommend you go check ‘em out.

Dates are after the jump. In the meantime, here’s the band’s video for “Failure in the Flesh.” The Romero-esque goodness was directed by David Brodsky.

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I have nothing but nice things to say about Through the Eyes of the Dead’s latest release, last year’s Malice (read my review here), which is why I wanna make it clear that the above headline is not meant to be taken in the usual MetalSucksian snarky tone. In fact, I was really, really saddened when Lambgoat reported over the weekend that guitarist Richard Turbeville had quit the band to focus on another group, From Graves of Valor:

“It was nothing personal against any of those guys and I don’t hate them. I just have too many other things going on in my life right now that are more important to me. Plus musically, I feel that I fit in much better playing in Graves of Valor. Me and those dudes go way back and I feel like everything is more solid playing with them. Anyways, so that’s what I chose to do.”

The band is already on their third singer in a year and may or may not have also lost their second drummer in under six months. In fact, the photo above you in no way, shape or form reflects the band’s current line-up, such as it is.

Man, I fuckin’ love this band and still haven’t gotten to see them live; they are definitely one of the better young death metal bands out there. I hope they can get past their line-up woes and back out onto the road, where they belong.

-AR

Through the Eyes of the Dead’s Malice was one of my favorite albums of 2007 – so I’m more than a little bummed to find out that two of the band’s five members have quit just this month alone. First Carnage Inc. reported on January 7 that drummer Josh Kulick has quit the band, and now Blabbermouth tells us that vocalist Nate Johnson – who had only joined the band in the middle of the Malice recording sessions – has split to join metalcore act Since the Flood. Johnson said of his quitting “it was not because I thought anyone in the band was an asshole, or I had suspicions of anyone stealing money. It just wasn’t my thing. Yes, I am a big fan of death metal… Fast forward 6-7 months later, and I just basically lost interest. I didn’t really enjoy being a death metal vocalist as much as I thought I would.”

This is a real shame, because a) Johnson’s awesome vocals were part of what made Malice so enjoyable, and b) Since the Flood suck (check out their MySpace page if you don’t believe me.) Still, Johnson didn’t even really know TTEOTD when he joined – the story goes that producer Erik Rutan recommended him after the band showed up for the Malice sessions without a vocalist – so I guess the lesson here is that it’s probably best to actually audition and hang out with any potential band members before recording with them.

Mostly, though I hope that TTEOTD can find a new singer and drummer and persevere. It would suck to see a young up and coming band like this torn apart so suddenly and early in their career.

Here’s the band’s David Brodsky-directed, heavily George Romero-influenced video for “Failure in the Flesh” from Malice.

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-AR

The good gents over at Metal Injection have just released a whole shitload of new, never-before-seen video footage of The Red Chord, Through the Eyes of the Dead, All Shall Perish and Despised Icon from their summer tour. The new footage includes interviews, live performances (with soundboard audio!) and classic Metal Injection tomfoolery. The intro below, and all the goodness over at Metal Injection.

-VN

All That Remains will tour next year with Chimaira (pictured above left in winter coats). That’s a pretty good bill – I’d say you should never, ever, under any circumstances miss a chance to see Chimaira live, and I’m told that All That Remains are good live, too, except that I’ve seen them twice and they haven’t been that great either time. But I guess I’d give them a third chance.

Alas, Five Finger Death Suck will be the openers. I guess we can at least be grateful that since they’re going on first, it will be easy to miss them.

Meanwhile, Throwdown (pictured above right, also in winter coats – be proud of me for choosing a theme and sticking with it) are doing a tour with Soilwork and Through the Eyes of the Dead. War of Ages will be the openers; for anyone unfamiliar with them, they’re an above average metalcore band and probably the best Christian metal band this side of post-Luti-Kriss, pre-Ross Robinson Norma Jean.

ANYWAY, I’m sure you can find tour dates through the usual channels, as I’m way too lazy to post them here.

-AR