10/07/2021

Goner Records to release self-titled debut EP from Total Hell on November 19. Band shares first single.

TOTAL HELL


RELEASING DEBUT SELF-TITLED EP ON NOVEMBER 19

VIA GONER RECORDS 


SHARE FIRST SINGLE TODAY

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New Orleans’ Total Hell have announced the upcoming release of their debut self-titled EP, on November 19 via Goner Records.  Today they share the EP’s first single “Clones From Hell.”


LISTEN TO “CLONES FROM HELL” HERE


By way of some cosmic miracle, only one “Total Hell” pops up when the band moniker is searched on Discogs. And that would be the band responsible for the 5-song blast of heavy metal sounds that comprise Clones From Hell. Now active for about two years plus change and exported from the very metal and punk fertile New Orleans, Total Hell is DD Deth (aka Drew Owen...Sick Thoughts wheelman, Trampoline Team etc) on drums/vocals, Henry Hell (John Henry of Static Static, Heavy Lids) on bass/vocals, and guitarists Jason “Panzer” Craft (Persuaders, Tirefire) and Michael Maniac (Michael He-man of Trampoline Team). 

If self deprecation is beyond your processing skills, then please know that as self-described purveyors of the “New Wave of Shitty Heavy Metal”, Total Hell’s big-boy debut is not “shitty” in any manner whatsoever. 


The four recordings found on the EP (“Desecrate”, “Clones From Hell”, “Violator”, and “Disfigured”) are melodic monstrosities that hit with a wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling hugeness, while doing so in an economical manner. There will be no mistaking this for Broken Bones screeching out of an iPhone inside the vegan squat. On the flip, this is no Bob Rock joint. DD Deth elaborates: “Recorded on a Tascam 8-track cassette live at home (aka “The Parkway”) by Michael He-Man and the process was a nightmare. Original tape crapped out on us back in early 2020 so we had to redo the whole thing.” 


Without rocking some safety goggles and diving headfirst down a terminology rabbithole, this is punk jumping into the sack with metal and leaving black boots on the bedroom floor rather than white hightops. Xmas came early for fans of Anti-Cimex, Celtic Frost, pre-shit Discharge, Motorhead, Blitz, Midnight, Venom, Broken Bones and you get the picture. 


Pre-order Total Hell via Bandcamp

Pre-order Total Hell via Goner

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Total Hell tracklist

Desecrate

Clones from Hell

Violater

Disfigured

Outro




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