While it’s pretty much agreed upon that the whole world is over soundboards, we’re about to rekindle your love affair with the nifty little Flash creations, which were big in the early 2000s and amongst morning radio DJs the world over.
Australian deathcore favourites Thy Art Is Murder have put together a truly remarkable soundboard to promote their latest album, the controversial Holy War, which is slated to drop Friday, 26th June via UNFD.
Instead of quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger movies or The Sopranos, the band have gone ahead and cut up the isolated vocal tracks from their new album to create a soundboard that is simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.
We had a little play ourselves and we can tell you we got mixed reactions from the poor folks calling up the Tone Deaf offices. Try it yourself over at the UNFD website. We reckon when you play all the samples at once it sounds a lot like the Biblical Hell.
The Blacktown outfit made headlines back in April after distributors insisted they change the artwork for their new album, which depicts a small child dressed in a hooded cloak, splattered with blood, with an explosive device strapped to their torso.
“We wanted Holy War to be our most confronting release to date,” said guitarist Andy Marsh in a statement. “From the moment the album title was conceived and the lyrics were born we had a distinct vision that the album cover artwork must be equally as confronting, as scary, and as real as what we are about as a band.”
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“Unfortunately after circulating our intended album cover around to the distributors and retailers, and after several meetings with the label and those we all work with, we were told we would have to cover the image, or choose a different cover.”
“Not wanting to alter our desired cover in any way shape or form, we opted to contain it within the album packaging and roll with one of the other images from the layout,” said Marsh, who also highlighted the message behind the artwork.
“Here it is in all its magnificent glory, a child for every religion that has indoctrinated the young and disadvantaged, and sent them off to war and bloody death without cause or reason. This album is for them,” said the guitarist.
The artwork will not be available on retail versions of the album, the band’s first for UNFD, but will appear on a Limited Edition 12” Picture Disc vinyl version available exclusively at 24hundred.net.
