Premiering this song is the first in a series of events that the band is planning to celebrate the 25th anniverary of their debut album “A Crystal Vision.”  Announcements will be made on-air about future events, so tune in this friday night to WVOX!

Evans, who has played drums with the band since 1986 and recorded virtually everything the band has ever done (aside from the first demo tape in 1985), is back from several months in Florida where he was recovering from a devastating spinal injury.  The injury forced him to miss several live performances with the band including the Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse in Chicago on October 1st.

Plans for 2012 include a “Best Of” compilation release and a brand new album

“We’re all very worried about him,” said bandleader and singer Rob Thorne in an interview with DJ Roger Lotring on 91.7 WHUS in Connecticut last night. “We were hoping he could rehabilitate without surgery, but after the last show we did in New Haven he couldn’t walk for almost a week. He’s in serious, serious pain.”

Evans and Thorne have worked tirelessly the last several years to reestablish Sacred Oath as a contender in the world of heavy metal music, recording and releasing four studio albums and one live album in the past 5 years. Their latest video “Meet Your Maker” recently premiered with MTV networks and the band’s last two discs have been top sellers on iTunes.

For the tour, Sacred Oath have hired Chilean drummer Ignacio Orellana. Ignacio has been part of many projects and bands such as PIROSAINT, DOWNFIRE(US) and former METAL CHURCH and current PRESTO BALLET singer RONNY MUNROE’s solo band and the charity effort CHILEANMETAL:Relief 2010. He has also been working on a label that promotes South American Metal called Digmetalworld.

“This is a temporary replacement, and we’re all hopeful that Kenny will recover from surgery and be able to record the next Sacred Oath album,” said Thorne. “We’ve been together for so long, I can’t imagine an album without him. But Ignacio has been a blessing. He is a fantastic drummer, knows the material, and most importantly, is sensitive to the situation. We’re confident the tour will be strong.”

Filmed by director Kristen Powers in a haunted forest in Connecticut, “Meet Your Maker” is a fiery pagan ritual complete with dancing witches and the disembodied floating head of the band’s singer/guitarist Rob Thorne. “We had a pretty clear vision of what we wanted in this video,” said Thorne in a recent interview. “It had to be dark and spooky with a classic metal vibe. Everyone worked hard to make it happen and we had fun like we always do.”

Sacred Oath was formed in 1985 by Thorne and currently includes original drummer Kenny Evans, Bill Smith on guitar, and Brendan Kelleher on bass. Their latest album “World On Fire” was released in November and “Meet Your Maker” is the first video produced from it. A tour in the United States is currently being planned for late September and October.

“Meet Your Maker” is the third video produced by the band. Their last video for “Counting Zeros” premiered with MTV2 on Headbanger’s Ball in May 2009.

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“The world really is on fire,” says the band’s primary songwriter and lead singer Rob Thorne.  “Conceptually, we chose to do this album on ‘Dune’ because there are so many parallels with the struggles on our planet here and now, and revolution in this country seems inevitable. It was kind of freaky to see the revolutions here in Wisconsin and also in the Middle East break out just a couple months after the album was released.”

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