Sacrifice – one of Canada's Big Four of Thrash alongside Voivod, Razor, and Annihilator – is back with their first new record in 16 years Volume Six, due out February 21. We're thrilled to stream Sacrifice's unrelenting new single "Missile" below, whose overall energy may allow you to forgo all coffee this morning.
"'Missile' is a thrashing, anti-war, riff-fest written about the beginning of drone warfare where pilots were a half world away launching missile strikes like a video game," wrote Sacrifice's guitarist and vocalist Rob Urbinati. "War solves nothing."
Volume Six was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Phase One Studios with Darius Szczepaniak and features Sacrifice's original lineup of lead guitarist Joe Rico, bassist Scott Watts, and drummer Gus Pynn as well as Urbinati. The front cover artwork for Volume Six was painted by Propagandhi bassist and lifelong Sacrifice fan Todd Kowalski, who it should be noted kicks major ass. Pre-orders for Volume Six are available here.
On the record itself, Urbinati added: "I write all the time. 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."
