I DESTRAGE hanno pubblicato lo scorso maggio il loro nuovo album "The Chosen One", uscito su Metal Blade Records. Da oggi la band ha reso disponibile il video di "About That", nuovamente diretto dallo stesso Matteo Di Gioia per Jack The Stupid.
Disponibile anche i precedenti singoli con il video di "Hey, Stranger!" e il video della titletrack
"The Chosen One" è acquistabile a questo link.
Presenti alcuni ospiti per "The Chosen One" tra cui il "master of evil" Luca Mai degli ZU che ha contribuito con un assolo di  sax al brano "Mr Bugman" e suonando il riff portante di "At The Cost Of Pleasure". Le tastiere sono state eseguite dal jazzista Fabio Visocchi per i brani "At The Cost Of Pleasure" e "The Gifted One" mentre le parti di elettronica sono state curate da Fabrizio "Izio" Pagni.
"The Chosen One" è stato prodotto dalla band stessa e da Matteo "ciube" Tabacco presso i Raptor Studios di Vicenza. Le fasi di mix e master sono state curate da Josh WIlbur (Megadeth, Korn, Gojira, Lamb Of God e molti altri).
Di seguito l'artwork ad opera di Marco Tafuri e la tracklist di "The Chosen One":

1. The Chosen One
2. About That
3. Hey, Stranger!
4. At the Cost of Pleasure
5. Mr. Bugman
6. Rage, My Alibi
7. Headache and Crumbs
8. The Gifted One
L'album è disponibile a questo link e nei seguenti formati:
jewelcase-CD
light yellow vinyl / includes CD (EU exclusive - limited to 300 copies)
pink / blue marbled vinyl / includes CD (EU exclusive - limited to 200 copies)
multi-color splatter vinyl / includes CD (EU exclusive - limited to 100 copies)
light pink marbled vinyl / includes CD (US exclusive - limited to 300 copies)
violet marbled vinyl / includes CD (US exclusive - limited to 200 copies)

 
Destrage comments: "We brushed the dust away from a pile of live and life on the road footage, collaborated with an eccentric Scottish artist for 3D hysteria, threw in the mix a bunch of awkward yet carefully selected clips from the dark side of the internet, and digitally raped the whole thing in a live-video mix software.
It's fucking low-fi caviar to me!"
As with all of their previous efforts, Destrage make it impossible to pigeonhole their sound, with numerous labels applicable to the record but no single one able to tell the whole story. Moreover, from start to finish, The Chosen One seethes with an energy that is undeniable. "I strongly believe in the power of the people, and energy came from those who worked on this album, from the band, the producers, through to the mixing and mastering engineer. There was a lot of energy in the whole project, and that's the most important thing to me," vocalist Paolo Colavolpe enthuses. The record also sees the band once more experimenting, taking risks and exploring territory they have not previously entered into, demonstrating a fearlessness when it came to chasing ideas - and almost half the songs are in a completely different guitar tuning. A pair of unique tracks also bookend the record, the title track and "The Gifted One", their relationship obvious as they came together in the writing stage. Explains guitarist Matteo Di Gioia: "The song 'The Chosen One' is brief, has no repetitions and an unresolved structure. The unexplored, unrepeated sections of that unwrap with more patience on 'The Gifted One', which also has an uncommon structure, but in the opposite sense. Here we have a long, pacing, reflexive closing song that shares many elements with the opener but feels completely different." Further adding to the heady mix is the incorporation of extra instrumentation, among these a baritone saxophone and something the band nicknamed MEGATRON, which is essentially "a badass synthesizer playing guitar riffs together with the human guitarists. Like the saxophone, it's set to disappear and fuse with the guitars to achieve a slightly unreal sound, and we knew we didn't want these extra sounds to emerge and be obvious. Instead, we really looked for the listener to experience the 'What the fuck is that sound?' effect."
DESTRAGE are:
Paolo Colavolpe - vocals
Matteo Di Gioia - guitar
Federico Paulovich - drums
Ralph Guido Salati - guitar
DESTRAGE online:
http://www.destrage.com
http://www.facebook.com/destrage
http://www.youtube.com/destrage
http://twitter.com/destrage
http://instagram.com/destrage_official
http://www.soundcloud.com/destrage