Throwdown inks European deal with Nuclear Blast Records
Orange County, California's hardcore/metal act Throwdown will release its new album, "Deathless", in Europe on January 22, 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD, which will be made available in the U.S. on November 10 through E1 Music (formerly Koch Records), was produced by Mudrock (Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack, Powerman 5000) and was mixed by Chris "Zeuss" Harris, who has previously worked with Hatebreed, The Red Chord and Shadows Fall, among others. The artwork was created by Ryan Clark of Invisible Creature and Demon Hunter and can be viewed below.Throwdown will embark on "The Deathless Tour I" in November/December. Support on the trek will come from Bury Your Dead, For Today, Abacabb and The World We Knew.
"Deathless" will be the band's fourth album with Dave Peters as frontman and primary songwriter, its second with guitarist Mark Choiniere (who joined the band in 2005) and first with bassist Mark Mitchell. Drummer Jarrod Alexander (ex-Death By Stereo), who performed on the band's breakthrough "Haymaker" album in 2003, returned to work on "Deathless".
Throwdown last year completed touring behind the band's last album, "Venom & Tears", which was produced by the group with Mudrock. The past two years saw them on the road with Korn (Australia), Killswitch Engage (Canada), Cavalera Conspiracy (U.S.), Machine Head / Arch Enemy (U.S.), headlining the Ernie Ball stage on the Vans Warped Tour, hitting major European festivals like Download, and headlining a U.S. tour of their own.
Loudfarmer.com conducted an interview with Dave Peters on September 19, 2009 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Watch the chat below.
