03/21/2016 14:32

Extrema

Extrema to release 'The Old School EP' in May

Back on the market with a real particular product the bishops of Italian thrash, Extrema. 'The Old School EP' will be released worldwide on May 27th via Punishment 18 Records, and with it, G.L.Perotti and co. churn out an EP, which smells wonderfully 1980s.

The EP consists of 5 tracks recorded for the occasion, while keeping completely the spirit, immediacy and brutality of the years in which they were written, moreover there will be also two live bonus tracks. The Band will perform the showcase presentation of the EP on May 21st at the Legend Club in Milan, Italy.

Track listing:
1. Life
2. Carcasses
3. Tribal Scream
4. Child Abuse
5. M.A.S.S.A.C.R.O.
6. Life (live)
7. Ace of Spades (Motörhead cover) (live)

Is there a more used and abused word in metal music ?

Well, for once, thanks to someone who lived "the old days" and at the time was already sending out BPM counters, the term "old school" is not used inappropriately. Extrema have in fact entered the Fear Studios in Alfonsine (Ravenna) last April to record a mini-album made of 5 songs.

Why this specific title? Because all five songs were written originally in 1987, shortly after the release of the legendary EP 'We Fuckin' Care' and only one of these songs "saw the light" on album: 'Life' on the the first full-length album 'Tension at the Seams' (1993).

On the new EP the song 'Life' will be re-recorded in its original version and will be accompanied by other live classics such as 'Child Abuse' and the instrumental 'M.A.S.S.A.C.R.O' (both present on the band's tape 'Rehearsal 24.02.89'), 'Tribal Scream'(from 1989's 'Promo Tape') and 'Carcasses', never before recorded but played live dozens of times.

All songs will be recorded , except for some small re-arrangements, in the brutal version of 1987. The idea came to guitarist Tommy Massara, while tiding Extrema's audio archives and while Tommy began listening to a tape on which there were no notes nor text records of any kind.

"These very rough recordings of a handful of songs that were planned to end on the album before the album 'Tension...' and that instead never materialized, “magically” popped out. I was amazed by the speed at which we played even then and I thought it would be fun for us and for the fans to record them nearly 30 years later to hear what we did, when many of those who follow us now, were not even born. It is possible however, that their parents could have participated in the “collective massacres” at the time... if this is not old school what is it then!"

This will also be the first recording session with the band, for our new band member Francesco La Rosa, who recently replaced Paul Crimi on drums. It will be clear why his nickname is "Frullo" ("whipper" in English).

The last studio album of the band, 'The Seed of Foolishness', was released in May 2013 and has received raving reviews from all around the world.

(source: Punishment 18 Records)