Metal Blade sign PHEONIX MOURNING

[Metal*Blade]

Metal Blade Records has officially inked a worldwide deal with the Tampa, FL screamo/metalcore act PHOENIX MOURNING. The band's first release for Metal Blade, "When Excuses Become Antiques", will also mark the group's first full-length CD since forming in the summer of 2004. "When Excuses Become Antiques" was recorded at Morrisound Studios in Tampa, Florida with producer Tom Morris, who has also produced acts such as MORBID ANGEL, CANNIBAL CORPSE and SEVEN MARY THREE.

Commented the band in a statement: "We are absolutely honored to have signed to Metal Blade Records. A label we all grew up admiring for their amazing roster year after year. It feels amazing to now be in the family with such acts as AS I LAY DYING, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and hometown friends THE ABSENCE. We look forward to many, many years of success with Metal Blade and the staff that makes this label so remarkable."

Added Brian Slagel, Owner and CEO of Metal Blade Records Inc.: "We are really excited to add PHOENIX MOURNING to the Metal Blade family. They provide us with a new and fresh approach and something that we were really looking for."

To check out "Across Twenty-Six Winters" off PHOENIX MOURNING's upcoming release "When Excuses Become Antiques", click here: http://www.purevolume.com/phoenixmourning . "When Excuses Become Antiques" will be in stores April 18, with the band hitting the road shortly before street date.

www.metalblade.de

[fipsie]

ich will ja nichts dummes sagen, aber irgendwie klingt das wie alles andere...

[omerta]

stimmt schon irgendwie. obwohl ich die melodischen parts ganz cool finde. der rest ist leider schon ganzschön abgegriffen.