Metal Supergroup Killer Be Killed Sign With Nuclear Blast

Killer Be Killed, the metal supergroup featuring members of Soulfly, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon and the Mars Volta, have signed with Nuclear Blast and plan to release their debut album in 2014.

The group, comprised of Max Cavalera (guitar), Greg Puciato (guitar), Troy Sanders (bass) and David Elitch (drums), have been on 'studio lockdown' in Los Angeles following a flurry of writing sessions for their first record, which was produced and mixed by Josh Wilbur.

Cavalera, Puciato and Sanders will share vocal duties, with Puciato attempting to explain the mix of styles that will characterise their debut. 

“It’s a bit of Sabbathy doom, a bit of thrash, a bit of hardcore and punk,” he said. “There would be no point in doing this if it sounded the same as our other bands. Of any of our bands, it sounds the furthest away from mine, mainly because Dillinger is [guitarist] Ben [Weinman]’s expression, musically.”

Puciato and Cavalera worked together on Rise Of The Fallen, a track from Soulfly's 'Omen' album, but found fertile ground when they decamped to the desert to thrash out a few riffs as a standalone project. Puciato said:

“We did the song on Soulfly's 'Omen' and then we started talking about doing an entire album together. We eventually got together with some riffs we both had and wrote a bunch more material in a 72-hour blast out in the desert. We left with about 15 demos we made using the same drum machine and four track Max used working on [Sepultura album] 'Chaos A.D.'”

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