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“World On Fire” is Sacred Oath’s 3rd new album in as many years and the band’s 5th album overall.  A September release date is expected to be announced shortly.

“This record practically wrote itself,” says Thorne, who is also producing the album at his Angel Thorne studio in Connecticut.  “We had some downtime over the winter and we just banged this one out.  It’s becoming a bad habit.”

Fifteen songs were recorded in February and March, and at least 10 will make the final cut of a concept album based on characters and events from “Dune,” the popular sci-fi novel written by Frank Herbert in the 1960’s.  “There are so many parallells between the world Herbert created in ‘Dune’ and the grim state of affairs we find ourselves in today,” says Thorne.  “The space messiah fantasy is a great setting for a heavy metal rant against the corruption here on Wall Street and in our own government.”

No release date has been confirmed for the album yet.

Since then, the band has signed an extensive licensing and publishing deal with WorldSound Label Group.  On August 25th the Sacred Oath album was released on CD here in the US, and was quickly followed by a twentieth anniversary edition of the band’s debut album A Crystal Vision in November.  The remaining studio LP Darkness Visible will be reissued in the spring of 2010.

Headbanger’s Ball began in the 1980s and remains the most popular program for both established and up-and-coming heavy metal acts.  Sacred Oath drummer Kenny Evans had this to say about it: “We’ve always been HUGE fans of the ‘Ball and to get the kind of support they’ve shown us this year has been an honor, truly.”  The program airs Tuesday mornings at 3:00 am.

Sacred Oath is currently in the studio recording their fourth studio album, slated for a September 2010 release.

The reissue faithfully preserves the contents, song order, and front cover design of the original Mercenary release but features the front cover artwork as it was always meant to be seen – in full color.  The original pressing of the vinyl LP had the artwork in brown sepia tone, much to the band’s dismay.  “I cannot tell you how pleased I am that this album is still being celebrated twenty years later, and that the cover art will finally be seen as it was intended back then,” says Rob Thorne, the band’s lead singer and founding member.  “This is certainly the best edition of ‘A Crystal Vision’ ever.”   The package also contains an 8 page booklet with song lyrics, art, and unseen archival photos of Sacred Oath from 1988.

This reissue is part of WorldSound’s exclusive license to press and distribute the entire Sacred Oath catalog, including the acclaimed live album “Till Death Do Us Part,” “Darkness Visible,” and of course the self-titled “Sacred Oath” which was released on August 25.  Distribution is through E1 Entertainment/Koch in the US.

Find it in FYE stores!  Or buy it on Amazon.

Paradise Lost - Blood Storm - Voodoo Dolls - Counting Zeros - High and Mighty - Sacred Oath - Caught In the Arc - Buried Alive - What the Dark Will Undo - Hunt For the Fallen Angel

This edition features the artwork and deluxe-edition design by Ioannis, including a 16-page lyric booklet with additional photos and art. 

WorldSound expects to have new editions of  A Crystal Vision, Till Death Do Us Part, and Darkness Visible in stores by the end of September.

The brand new self-titled album “Sacred Oath” was released in Europe on July 10th through SAOL, a subsidiary of the CMM Marketing, distributed by H’Art Musik.

iTunes featured the album for 10 consecutive weeks on the Rock Homepage and chose the first single “Counting Zeros” as the Discovery Download of the Week April 7th as part of an exclusive digital release.

Distribution in North America is through E1 Entertainment (Koch).