06/30/2014 23:00

Rigor Mortis

Rigor Mortis' final album 'Slaves to the Grave' out in October

The fourth and final Rigor Mortis album, 'Slaves to the Grave', will be released on October 7. The first 5,000 copies will include a "making-of" DVD. The effort will also be available on iTunes, Amazon, and limited-edition vinyl LP.

Recorded in February 2012 at Ministry's 13th Planet Studios in El Paso, Texas, 'Slaves to the Grave' returns to the 1988 original first record lineup of Mike Scaccia on guitar, Bruce Corbitt on vocals, Harden Harrison on drums, and Casey Orr on bass.

Fans in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas will be able to get the CD/DVD 10 days before the rest of the world at the 'Slaves to the Grave' CD-release show on September 27 at the Curtain Club in Dallas. Texas metal legends and pioneers Deadhorse will headline the event and the surviving members of Rigor Mortis will perform a set of Rigor Mortis songs under the name Wizards Of Gore. Opening the show will be Austin's premier metal band Dead Earth Politics.

Wizards Of Gore will also play at this year's Housecore Horror Film Festival at Emo's in Austin, Texas at the end of October.

Scaccia, who is best known for his work with Ministry, Rigor Mortis and the Revolting Cocks, died on December 23, 2012 of a sudden heart attack brought on by a heart disease (official cause of death: atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease), according to the Tarrant County medical examiner's office. Officials ruled it a natural death. He was 47 years old.

Scaccia was performing with Rigor Mortis at The Rail Club in Fort Worth, Texas at the 50th-birthday celebration for Rigor Mortis singer Bruce Corbitt when the frontman reportedly asked for strobe lights to be turned off moments before the guitarist collapsed onstage and could not be revived. He was taken to the emergency room at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, where he was pronounced dead at 12:26 a.m., according to the medical examiner.

Mike is survived by his wife Jenny Rowen Scaccia, with whom he had two toddlers, and daughters Sarah Scaccia and Taarna Scaccia Hopkins.

(source: Blabbermouth.net)