Single Preview: Corners of Sanctuary - Hunter Prey (Trad Metal, 2024)

Philadelphia's Traditional hometown Heavy Metal artillery, Corners of Sanctuary (COS), have released a short preview video for their upcoming new single, “Hunter Prey,” in conjunction with a pre-ordering promotion for a limited number of autographed "Metal Up" CDs, “Metal Up,” 

The story behind the single hasn't been revealed yet.

Heavy Metal Underdogs was lucky enough to have a pre-listen to the first full single "Hunter Prey" through a digital advance tape. I would say that the band metalized up the COS sound. 

It's coming together quicker, harder and heavier to the point and it's filled up with more intensive atmosphere than ever before. It's already the hard hitting drum roll at the very beginning that starts the party more kicking than in every release before. 

The pressure remains in the following minutes, something the vocals benefit of a lot. The vocals have more room than before to breathe out and add life to the sound. The guitars change all the while with different tonality but stand compact with drums and bass guitars.

I'm looking forward to the time the full EP will come out. In the meantime make sure to place your pre-order through a Paypal order or pre-save the single release on the service of your choice.

COS’ latest extended EP, officially releases on March 29th via SODEH Records.

The band's Facebook page also holds the latest info on the band activities or go to the shows to enjoy the music and buy some merch directly of them.

Show Schedule (USA):

March 21st 

Century Bar

w/ Kazha 

Phila, PA

March 23rd 

Sherman Showcase 

Stroudsburg, PA

April 13th 
Tourist Inn
York, PA

w/ Ronny Munroe 

May 18th 
Gin Mill
w/ Denim and Leather
Northampton, PA

Finally listen to a snippet of "Hunter Prey".

Single Preview: Jeff Fabb - See No Evil (Rock, 2024)

The drummer of Black Label Society has started a solo project in November 2023 with the release of the first record "Stealing Souls". 

In a few days he's going to release his next single. The topic of the song describes being not in a nice situation. The music happily is not of a depressing kind.

Photo Credit: Neil Lim Sang

“See No Evil” means sometimes it can feel like no one wants to help you, everyone is passing you by. It feels like you’ll never finish what you’ve started…, but sometimes slow and steady will get you where you wanna be.”  -Jeff Fabb

The song plays around with a easy drum pattern but the direct and easy distorted guitars spread a somewhat spacy feeling.

It's underlined by the bass guitars that put a strong rhythm mark into the sound.  Throughout the singles duration these elements change to a more clear mood. That's something that gives the track a special note.

The vocals constantly keep the tension up in the song but fit very straight into the rest of the sound. They don't stand out at the front of "See no evil" but follow all the changes of the track which keeps just going on and on.

These elements are repeated several times and no guitar solo interrupts the structure. 

With it's catchy character this single is a good pusher for the mind to keep going in difficult times.  The sound may surprise some people who have followed Jeff Fabb's work so far but I'm sure it's more exciting this way than to release something that people might have already expected of the list of bands the drummer has performed with.

The single is going to be released on March 8th 2024. You can pre-save it now on a streaming service of your choice. 

With this little preview in mind it's exciting to see how the rest of the upcoming music might turn out. Well, let's keep a eye further on what Jeff Fabb is going to put out in the coming time with Instagram.