Black Emerald are excited to announce that their upcoming album ‘Hell Can’t Handle All Of Us’ will be released on 10th February 2018 with a hometown show at The Facebar in Reading, where the entire new album will be played for the first time ever in full!
Black Emerald are a three-piece band from Reading, sporting influences ranging from hard rock, thrash, doom, southern and progressive metal to create a truly unique sound which cannot be found easily elsewhere. Each member of the band brings their own style and influences into the music which gives Black Emerald a distinctive and collaborative sound.
Joining Black Emerald for this album release show will be Thirty Giants (heavy rock from Brighton), Gutlocker (groove metal from Woking) and Remnant (metal from High Wycombe) – Event page here.
‘Hell Can’t Handle All Of Us’ has been mixed and mastered by Matt Bew & James Billinge of Whitehouse Studios in Reading. The album features some special guest appearances, namely Craig Mcbrearty of Gutlocker offering guest vocals on ‘Life Of Anxiety’, and Andy Gunn of Remnant is guest guitarist on ‘Voodoo Princess’. The artwork for the album has been created by Andy Pilkington of Very Metal Art.
The band play Facebarmageddon on 9th December where they will be playing a couple of previously unheard tracks! Facebarmageddon boasts nearly 50 bands on 2 stages over 3 days. Black Emerald will be joining Divine Chaos as main support on the Blue Stage along with bands such as Left For Red, Master Charger and Footprints In The Custard. Other bands on the bill during the weekend include Raging Speedhorn, Evil Scarecrow, Kill II This and many more.
‘Hell Can’t Handle All Of Us’ track listing:
1. Hell Can’t Handle All Of Us
2. Life Of Anxiety (featuring Craig Mcbrearty of Gutlocker)
3. Dr. Stein
4. B.O.D.
5. One For The Road
6. Voodoo Princess (featuring Andy Gunn of Remnant)
7. Drown In The River
8. Sculptures To The Sky
9. Figure On A Barbed Wire Cross
10. Jonestown
11. Revelations
