Attila New Album: Chaos
U.S. Metalcore masters ATTILA release their new album ‘CHAOS’ (Sharptone / Nuclear Blast) on Friday 4th November!
Simply put, CHAOS is the biggest album they’ve ever made!
The fate of ATTILA was sealed the moment Chris “Fronz” Fronzak was handed a demo by his high-school pal Sean Heenan. It was a disc filled with the extreme sounds of underground metal, housed in the CD jewel case of an album by rapper/actor LUDACRIS. It’s from these gritty essential ingredients, the “biscuits” of Southern-fried metal like PANTERA and the “gravy” of hip-hop like LIL JON, that ATTILA was born. Each of these seemingly disparate genres are united in aggressive force; in a shared authenticity; by a determination to keep it real, and with loud dedication to stay true to the game. A cursory glance at something as simple as the titles of each of ATTILA’s seven albums reveals much of the band’s creative vision, each reading like a statement of intent. These are records called Fallacy, Soundtrack to a Party, Rage, Outlawed, and About That Life. As their singer’s devious Slim Shady styled alter-ego/persona Lord Fronzilla dishes out verbal beat down after beat down, with powerful bark and playful prose, his “zero f-bombs given” attitude is backed in kind by the bludgeoning rhythms dealt by guitarist Chris Linck, bassist Kalan Blehm and drummer/cofounder Heenan. To the legions of fans enraptured by the boisterous bravado of Fronz and his effortless charisma, ATTILA is the ultimate Guilty Pleasure, just as their 2014 album was named. ATTILA is beautiful CHAOS. ATTILA’s latest musical manifesto ranges from heavy moshpit invocations to metallic groove; from an EDM track (made in collaboration with rising EDM star OOKAY) to ready-made Active Rock radio hits, akin to LINKIN PARK or the recent work of fellow deathcore-kingpins-turned-transformative-anthem-makers BRING ME THE HORIZON. CHAOS is truly a form of organized chaos. ATTILA are their own ringmasters, setting their carnival ablaze. “ATTILA has grown up with this album, but we’re still ourselves, because it’s not boring dad rock or something,” the band’s colorful frontman observes. “It’s still offensive. It’s still edgy. It’s still in your face. We knew going into making this record that we’d be combining different ideas while still keeping our signature sound. Every song has purpose and it’s something you can feel when you’re listening to the entire album.”
Atlanta is a city that’s given the world the savage metalcore of NORMA JEAN and THE CHARIOT; the heady thinking-man’s metal of MASTODON; the soaring Active Rock of SEVENDUST, and the nü-metal/pop-core mash-up of ATTILA’s pals in the band Issues. Atlanta was rather famously the place where the SEX PISTOLS performed in America for the first time. Then there’s the massively influential Atlanta hip-hop and R&B scenes. Local production trio Organized Noize alone is responsible for huge hits by hometown heroes like TLC, LUDACRIS, GOODIE MOB and the badass ATLiens themselves, OUTKAST. Make no mistake, ATTILA is still absolutely nuts and completely in-your-face. CHAOS will introduce that craziness to a much bigger portion of the unsuspecting masses. “Part of me wants to scream from a mountain top about how great this album is,” admits Fronz. “But I know that this record is going to get out there to people and they’ll know it for themselves. It’s as heavy as ATTILA has always been, but it’s even more digestible. We’re not trying to hold back. We’re not trying to limit ourselves. We want to be the biggest band in the world, but without ever sacrificing who we truly are.“
