INFERNAL: Re-Recordings Of Early Tracks To Be Released As Special Gatefold EP

INFERNAL, the project led by Swedish guitarist David Parland (NECROPHOBIC, DARK FUNERAL),has issued the following update:

"Re-recordings of the first tracks are very soon finished, and will be released as a 7" special gatefold EP by underground cult label GoatHorned Productions.

"These re-recordings had to be done because of several reasons, but only one main reason really forced us to do this. Our previous drummer, Tomas Asklund, has refused to let us use the original recordings, since he plays (the drums) on them, and as well did the engineering job while I laid down the vocals at his Monolith studio, earlier this year.

"When we split up with him (on mutual terms) and after some serious and longer time going problems, (apparently felt from both sides, we don't blame Tomas for what has happened, but these re-recordings would by no means been necessary if we would have been able to use original ones),we wanted to use the original recordings for this particular 7" EP, but he said that he wouldn't agree to that under any circumstances. This despite given the options to simply erase his contributions/drum tracks, but this was not accepted from him either, despite us offering him to pay money for the studiotime being used.

"So, to get this 7" EP out, we have had to re-record everything from scratch, although it, of course, felt somewhat unnecessary, since we already got the stuff recorded. However, after some thinking and planning, we thought, OK, let's do this all over again,' and as well let our new drummer extraordinaire, Carl Engström (from Norway),do his 'trial by fire' wih this re-recording, in about one week.

"So, now these songs are very soon re-recorded and ready for release by GoatHorned (early next year). Check the cover illustration for this special EP entitled 'The Infernal Return' [below].

"Of course, this special EP is just a cool thing. The main thing now is to finish the writing of the coming full-length in 2010. This is the one and only goal now.

"We have 75 % of the material at the moment for the album, and are right now in talks with a certain well-known label about releasing it.

"Anyway, regardless of which label that will end up releasing the album, it will contain nine songs and and an intro and outro and will hopfully be out around autumn 2010."

Video footage of Parland laying down the vocals to the re-recording of the track "Godforsaken" can be viewed below.

For more information, visit the band's MySpace page.

Joining Parland and Carl in the new INFERNAL lineup is guitarist Martin Halfdan (ex-NECROPHOBIC).

Regarding the decision to use the INFERNAL name for the new project (INFERNAL's previous lineup split up in 2003),David previously said, "When we started up again, we initially wanted to call the band something totally different, but we never came up with anything good enough, and whenever we did, we found out that these names already were taken. . . The concept still remains 100% Satanic; we see no reason to not call ourselves something less good or half-assed, just because the sound mainly is no longer the hyper-blast stuff we used to do in our earlier bands. This new INFERNAL is still purely Satanic, but generally has a more accessible sound, more melodic, but still brutal, and with some blast parts as well. We generally want to people to think of this as new band, more or less a complete rebirth of a band that once was (and still is again). We don't want people to even compare it with the old stuff since it's in most ways not the same band."