Beastmaker Post “Evil One” Video; Inside the Skull out this Week
This Friday, California’s Beastmaker release their second album, Inside the Skull, on Rise Above Records. By the time the end of the week gets here — it always seems so far away on Tuesdays, for some reason — the dark, metallically-tinged three-piece will have already had a couple nights on the road alongside Zakk Sabbath on a tour that will carry them from one end of the country to the other and well into June. I’d imagine it’s a pretty exciting week to be in Beastmaker. Maybe a little nerve-wracking, but exciting too. They’re about to step on some of the biggest stages they’ve yet played.
And they do so supporting a record of quality material enough to back them in their cause. “Evil One” is the second video to come from Inside the Skull behind one last month for presumed side B leadoff “Nature of the Damned” (posted here) — fair enough to double-up for an aesthetically inclined band like this — and it’s the opening cut of the album as a whole. As what’s essentially their final argument to their potential audience prior to the LP coming out, it’s utterly reasonable for them to have held the song back for this purpose as they have. Where they’re quick to show more progressive flair even on the subsequent thudder “Heaven to Hell” and the following “Now Howls the Beast,” “Evil One” is Inside the Skull‘s blown-out moment of first engagement with those who’d take it on.
Accordingly, it largely casts off frills in favor of a flawless execution of straightforward structure — a hook that sinks deep and is wielded with class — while also setting the atmospheric tone for much of what follows in a modernized proto-metal creep, part-doom but not beholden to genre to the sacrifice either of its craft or attitude. With it, Beastmaker make a convincing case to keep going through the next song and the next, and as we inch closer to the arrival of Inside the Skull, listeners will have the chance to do precisely that.
Good luck to Beastmaker as they head out this week on tour. You can see the video for “Evil One” below, followed by their live dates, courtesy of the PR wire.
Enjoy:
Beastmaker, “Evil One” official video
Beastmaker’s new album Inside The Skull is set for release next Friday May 19th via Rise Above Records. Inside The Skull is not just a muscular hymn to the glory days of heavy metal’s genesis and early prosperity: this is a vital, virile and venomous slab of wildly creative but spiritually pure doom devastation, designed to rescue us from the drab harshness of present day reality and transport us somewhere cooler, somewhere better and, in the best way possible, somewhere much heavier. Recorded and produced by the band themselves, in their own self-built studio, it’s an album with great depths and a macabre heart.
While they may be reveling in Hitchcockian disquiet, Beastmaker will not be lurking anonymously in the shadows for long. Once Inside The Skull is released, the band will be hitting the road in the US with Zakk Wylde’s Black Sabbath tribute act, Zakk Sabbath, before the band’s campaign to draw the world into this unique maelstrom of pitch-black riffs and morbid tales begins in earnest. Erupting from the underground, this beast is alive and ready to howl.
BEASTMAKER W/ Zakk Sabbath:
5/17: Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant St*
5/18: New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
5/19: New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
5/20: Philadelphia, PA @ Voltage Theatre*
5/21: Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter*
5/22: Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall*
5/23: Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
5/24: New Orleans, LA @ Siberia Nola*
5/25: Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio
5/26: Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar N’ Grill
5/28: St. Louis, MO @ Fubar
5/30: Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
5/31: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
6/2: Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
6/3: Indianapolis, IN @ Black Circle Brewing*
6/4: Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
6/6: Spokane, WA @ The Pin
6/7: Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
6/8: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
6/10: San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
6/17: Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater
*Denotes Headline Show
I have my preorder, cant wait