Canadian 80’s thrashers INFRARED and their new album “Saviours” set for release on May 25th.

The band had an impact on the Canadian’s 80s thrash scene and now return in 2018 to cement and carry on their own legacy, with their new album “Saviours” featuring all new music to follow their EP “No Peace”, which featured tracks all written in the 80’s and only recently was heard by fans in 2016. “Saviours” features eight tracks that is all new music, thrashy, aggressive, melodic, heavy, and tight.

The band explains:

“Anyone who likes a more classic thrash sound, and longs for those days, just like we do, will dig this album. Since we are from that era, we are not trying to bring back that style of music, we are simply continuing what we know and do best!” adding “The Big Four will stand out as we have been described as a band with a bay area sound…But our influences are truly rooted in 70s and early 80s metal. Accept, Scorpions, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest are all bands that laid the foundation and the love of metal for us!”

Release Date: May 25, 2018
Label: Self-Release
Distribution: CD Baby
Album Title: Saviours

Track Listing:
1. Project Karma (6:48)
2. The Demagogue (6:52)
3. Saviour (6:04)
4. The Fallen (6:33)
5. All In Favour (5:51)
6. They Kill For Gods (7:41)
7. Father of Lies (5:55)
8. Genocide Convention (5:33)
Album Length: 51:20

Album Credits:
• All songs performed by: Infrared
• All songs written by: Infrared
• Produced by: Armin Kamal
• Mixed by: Jason Jaknunas at Metropolitan Studios
• Mastered by: Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel Mastering
• Album Artwork by: Jobert Mello and Armin Kamal

Album Band Line Up:
– Armin Kamal (Vocals and Guitars)
– Kirk Gidley (Guitars, Backing Vocals)
– Alain Groulx (Drums, Backing Vocals)
– Mike Forbes (Bass, Backing Vocals)

Discography:
2016 – No Peace LP
2018 – Saviours LP

Shared Stage With:
Anvil, Flotsam and Jetsam, Udo Dirkshneider, Sacrifice, Varathron, DBC, E-Force, Vortex, Atrophy

Tours and Fests:
2017 – Mountain Man Music Festival – Calabogie

Thrash metal never dies! Like some mutated metal monster; a Thrashzilla if you will, it sees off all trends; and comes back stronger than ever.

One of the reasons for this is the love both fans and musicians alike have for this most durable form of metal. Such a band are 80s legends Ottawa’s INFRARED; a band who made a big impact with Canadian fans in the 80s; and have in recent years returned to cement and carry on their own legacy, releasing a newly-recorded album of their classic material “No Peace” in 2016, followed by their forthcoming album of original material, “Saviours” in 2018.

An apt name because they really are Saviours of classic thrash metal!

Describing INFRARED’s sound as “thrashy, aggressive, melodic, heavy, and tight”, guitarist/vocalist Armin Kamal explains that INFRARED’s inspirations run deep.

“The Big Four will stand out as we have been described as a band with a bay area sound…But our influences are truly rooted in 70s and early 80s metal. Accept, Scorpions, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest are all bands that laid the foundation and the love of metal for us!”

Armin is stoked for fans to hear INFRARED’s new “Saviours” album.

“Anyone who likes a more classic thrash sound, and longs for those days, just like we do, will dig this album. Since we are from that era, we are not trying to bring back that style of music, we are simply continuing what we know and do best!”

As you’d expect from the band’s massive experience, Infrared kill it live.

“We always deliver high-energy tight sets with songs that people can sink their teeth into. The thing we get off on the most is getting the crowd to participate with us. It’s not just ‘watch us’, it’s ‘we need you, you are part of the band’.”

(Bio written by Steve Earles)

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