{"id":50860,"date":"2017-03-31T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=50860"},"modified":"2020-02-29T22:11:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T22:11:35","slug":"news-warbringer-release-fifth-studio-album-woe-to-the-vanquished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-warbringer-release-fifth-studio-album-woe-to-the-vanquished\/","title":{"rendered":"WARBRINGER Release Fifth Studio Album \u2018Woe To The Vanquished\u2019 (March 31st, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARBRINGER Release Fifth Studio Album \u2018Woe To The Vanquished\u2019<\/strong><\/span>
\nMarch 31st, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Los Angeles, California-based thrash metal group Warbringer issued fifth full-length studio album Woe To The Vanquished<\/em><\/a> on March 31st, 2017 through Napalm Records.<\/p>\n

Woe To The Vanquished<\/em> was made available in the following formats: a regular jewel case CD edition, a vinyl LP gatefold edition (black and other coloured vinyl variations), and a Super Deluxe Wooden Box Warchest edition (featuring CD, exclusive two-track seven-inch single, flag, and band logo dog tags). The latter was only available via the Napalm Records webstores in the United States and Europe, and was strictly limited to 500 copies.<\/p>\n

The bonus seven-inch single included with the Super Deluxe Wooden Box Warchest edition contained two cover versions; Death\u2019s \u2018Evil Dead\u2019 (featuring Chris Monroy of Skeletal Remains) and Coroner\u2019s \u2018Arc Lite\u2019 (featuring Jadran \u201cConan\u201d Gonzalez of Exmortus).<\/p>\n

The outing was produced and mixed by Mike Plotnikoff, and mastered by Howie Weinberg. Cover artwork duties fell to Andreas Marschall, the artwork directly based on a photograph from the end of the First World War; a pyramid of 12,000 German spiked helmets, right in the middle of New York City.<\/p>\n

Woe To The Vanquished<\/em>\u2019s album title was explained by vocalist John Kevill, the frontman studying to become a history professor: \u201cThe title Woe To The Vanquished<\/em> comes from early Roman history \u2014 before they were the huge empire they became. In 390 BC, a host of Gauls led by a warlord called Brennus attacked Rome, and captured all the city except the Capitoline Hill. From this hill, the defeated Romans made a bargain, they would pay 1,000 pounds of gold for the Gallic army to leave the city with no further bloodshed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Romans bring the gold before Brennus, who uses his own scales to measure it. On the Gaul\u2019s scales, the Roman\u2019s thousand pounds of gold measured to be less, which led the Romans to complain that the scale was rigged (it probably was). Responding to this, Brennus speaks \u2018Vae Victis\u2019 (Woe To The Vanquished) and throws his sword on the counterweight. Because the Romans lost, they have to pay the rigged sum of gold as well as the weight of the sword, to add insult to injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe irony here is that vowing this type of humiliation would never happen again, Rome went on to become an ancient war machine conquering and subjugating most of the old world. On the record, \u2018Woe To The Vanquished\u2019 is spoken in an ironic, mocking tone \u2014 the defeated are trampled and time marches on, uncaring, and forgets they ever existed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The track listing is as follows;<\/p>\n

01. \u2018Silhouettes\u2019
\n02. \u2018Woe To The Vanquished\u2019
\n03. \u2018Remain Violent\u2019
\n04. \u2018Shellfire\u2019
\n05. \u2018Descending Blade\u2019
\n06. \u2018Spectral Asylum\u2019
\n07. \u2018Divinity Of Flesh\u2019
\n08. \u2018When The Guns Fell Silent\u2019<\/p>\n

Warbringer\u2019s line-up was as follows;<\/p>\n

John Kevill (vocals)
\nAdam Carroll (guitars)
\nChase Becker (guitars)
\nJessie Sanchez (bass)
\nCarlos Cruz (drums)<\/p>\n

Music videos were filmed for the tracks \u2018Silhouettes\u2019 and \u2018Remain Violent\u2019, which can be viewed below.<\/p>\n

Fourth studio record IV: Empires Collapse<\/em> was released<\/a> in October 2013 via Century Media.<\/p>\n