Canadian Thrash metal veterans SACRIFICE return in 2025 with their new album “Volume Six”, in more than sixteen years of absence. This is the band’s sixth album in total and second since reforming in 2006, it features ten new songs and a cover paying homage to the Toronto scene, from which they originally emerged.
Working once again with sound engineer Darius Szczepaniak (who was also at the helm for SACRIFICE’s 2009 effort “The Ones I Condemn”), “Volume Six” was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Phase One Studios in Scarborough, Ontario. Tracked over a period of sessions between September 2023 and May 2024, the eleven-song offering was produced by vocalist/guitarist Rob Urbinati and features the band’s original lineup, with lead guitarist Joe Rico, bassist Scott Watts, and drummer Gus Pynn as well as Urbinati. They are one of, if not the only, 1980s thrash band that still has its original lineup intact and playing together, and on “Volume Six”, the band hits it out of the park.
Guitarist Urbinati comments:
“It was around 2017 when I wrote a couple songs that I thought were really good. I played them for the band, and they were totally happy with them and the direction. I wrote a couple more and Gus and I were making some real progress in getting the songs tight and even talking about recording, then the pandemic hit. My creativity completely dried up for whatever reason, even though I was sitting at home with nothing to do. There was nowhere to rehearse in the city because things would shut down, then open up, then close down again, so it was hard to get a consistent rehearsal schedule going and I just wasn’t feeling it. When things started coming back, our original plan was to do an EP, but we had enough songs that we were completely comfortable and happy with to do a whole album.”
“Volume Six” will be released on February 21 through all digital platforms and on CD, MC, and LP in blue, white, and black variants through Cursed Blessings Records in North America and High Roller Records in Europe, Asia, and Australia. The band released also the first single entitled “Antidote of Poison”, which you can listen at the video below:
