Sacrifice put-out for the scene they started
Sacrifice play the Opera House for their CD release Saturday Nov. 21.
Over 25 years since conception and four years since their infamous reunion show, Toronto thrash metal legends Sacrifice admit they are influenced by the same old school bands they dug in the early ’80s when all things dingy and speedy were at their peak.
“When you get to a certain age, you’ve had it with progressing,” frontman Rob Urbinati tells York U Radio’s The Red Switch.
Check out the full interview below, where Urbinati talks the Leafs, his condemnation of “lifeless, soulless” over-edited modern metal recording, and fittingly, about The Ones I Condemn, the first album from the original line-up since 1990’s Soldiers of Misfortune.
Their “we know what we do best” attitude means loyal metal heads have stuck with their “fast as possible… basically obnoxious across the board” brand since its big-four heyday (see also Voivod, Razor, Annihilator). Local veteran metal promoter Noel Peters will tell you he idolized the band in the ’80s, and the 2006 sold-out reunion show was hands-down the most metal gig he’s organized.
It’s a tough choice for Toronto’s retro devotees tonight – the high-strung may choose Sacrifice’s actual-old-school thrash at the Opera House, while those in a chill mood may hit up the classics-influenced beard metal of Montreal’s Priestess a Lee’s Palace. – Marsha Casselman
