Northern Californian deathcore juggernauts SALTWOUND have released the 3rd single, ‘Walking The Blade‘, from their eagerly-awaited, debut full-length album, The Temptation Of Pain, will be released on November 1st.
Commenting on the track, vocalist Spencer Timmons says:
“There’s so much on my plate, and I’m a workaholic. Trying to make it in this industry isn’t easy, nor is trying to persevere through the pain of life in general. I came up with the image of doing a tightrope walk on a long knife, what it would feel like, and how difficult it is. Walking The Blade speaks to how I feel trying to achieve my goals.”
SALTWOUND’s debut is a colossal beast, seething with furious brutality that roars to life with the most ferocious riffs metalcore fans will hear this year. Featuring tracks like the previously released singles ‘Hollow‘ and ‘Severance‘, The Temptation Of Pain rears its head with intense chaos as elements from deathcore and metalcore collide in a violent explosion of sound.
Stream ‘Walking The Blade‘: https://bfan.link/walking-the-blade
Pre-Order The Temptation Of Pain: https://bfan.link/the-temptation-of-pain
The Temptation Of Pain Tracklist:
1. We All Burn
2. Blight
3. Empty From The Start
4. Circle The Drain
5. The Temptation Of Pain
6. Hollow
7. Walking The Blade
8. The Righteous Hand
9. Ensnared
10. Severance (Feat. Nick Chance)
About SALTWOUND:
Sporting a hunger bordering on bloodlust, Saltwound uncompromisingly pursue progression at all costs. The Sacramento, CA band—Spencer Timmons [vocals], Shawn Williams [guitar], and Marty Delgado [bass]—deftly tame a chaotic hybrid of deathcore and metalcore with earthquaking grooves and insidious melodies, proudly dubbed “NORCAL VIOLENCE.”
Buzzing with millions of streams, they continue to fearlessly level up on their 2024 full-length debut for SHARPTONE Records, The Temptation of Pain.
“With every release, we try to create something that sounds different from what we’ve done in the past,” notes Spencer. “We never want to be a one-trick pony. It’s easy to find a niche and suck the well dry. We’re trying to evolve though. I think we achieved that with this album.”
During 2020, the musicians initiated this perpetual forward motion. Vol. 1: (DEAD)WEIGHT EP introduced their inimitable intensity to the masses. The title track “(DEAD)WEIGHT” amassed over 1.6 million Spotify streams followed by “Assault // Split Lip” with 516K Spotify streams. The momentum only picked up with VOL. 2: DESPAIR [2022] and In the Shadow of the Valley of Death [2023]. Along the way, they shared the stage with everyone from Maylene and the Sons of Disaster and Islander to Bleeding Through, Ov Sulfur, Attila, Gideon, and Impending Doom.
During late 2023, the guys hunkered down and assembled what would become The Temptation of Pain. This time around, the group intentionally streamlined the process by adopting “a communal approach to writing” with all of the members actively contributing. Moreover, a core theme underscored much of the lyrical content.
“To me, ‘Temptation’ is more like attraction,” he reveals. “As a culture and a society, we’re attracted to things that hurt us and cause us pain. Negativity gets more ‘clicks’. These aren’t positive things that uplift our lives, but we gravitate to them. It applies to my personal life. Being in a band is hard, so why don’t I put my effort into going back to school and getting a safe nine-to-five job? It’s because I’m attracted to what causes me stress. The same goes for relationships. So, every song touches on an element of being drawn to what causes hurt and pain.”
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