AFGM: As I Lay Dying Gets Awakened & Cauterized!

I hope you folks were pay attention to my blog/music news over the last few weeks. If you have been, you would know that the always entertaining AS I LAY DYING dropped tons of new tracks from their upcoming album "Awakened".

1. Cauterize

2. A Greater Foundation

3. Resilience

4. Wasted Words

5. Whispering Silence

6. Overcome

7. No Lungs To Breathe

8. Defender

9. Washed Away

10. My Only Home

11. Tear Out My Eyes

There's no denying that the first single ("Cauterize") smacks you right in the face from the first note. The track leaves much anticipation for September 25th, when AILD will be dropping their 6th album "AWAKENED" via Metal Blade Records, as the fury of AILD doesn't digress whatsoever. The classic thrash attitude that you saw in their focus shift after "An Ocean Between Us" continues to get more brutal into the new LP. Anyways, enough of me gabbing. I know you all just wanna hear the f**kin tracks!

And I give you the official lyric video for the track:

(Side note, listen to that squeal at appprox. 2:35/2:36!)

And now the new addition to this article. Coming back from vacation, I saw the new music video for "A Greater Foundation" in my inbox. And HOLY F**K! What a great debut music video for what seems to be a great record thus far...

There have also been a few reviews starting to kick around the new for all those who got the early play copies to review.

"That's what listening to Awakened feels like. Like the clumsy youngsters pouring their hearts into songs like Forsaken and Nothing Left, on Awakened AILD strive to recapture the magnitude of the impact of their past records. But it's not only the music that tries to feel familiar. AILD are also trying to re-create entire memories, fool us with the image of comfort and ease. Oddly, we can just feel the details. The bits and pieces we never bothered to put into words. And we can feel these extreme moments, even if we don't want to. We put these together, and we get the feel of an album. Enough to know how much we miss them, and how much we hate the people who took them away. Yet most of the praise surrounding Awakened is forced on, by and for the listeners themselves. When we listened to Awakened we thought we saw recocgintion. Now we know. We fake it. If we think we're supposed to recognize some hidden sonic pattern, we just pretend. We bluff it to get a pat on the head from the others. We bluff it to seem less like a freak.

Awakened is the sound of a band caught in a cycle that should have been stopped too long ago, yet the band still continues to push on. It is irrelevant whether the record is awarded 1 or 5 stars, because the album as such does not exist. It exist on an entirely different plane; oddly enough on the same plane that's occupied by other AILD records before there even was an idea of AILD. And this is where I raise concern for the band as a whole, with all their perfections and imperfections: How can they heal if they can't feel time? That's something only the band can figure out, while we silently suffer in the glory of their most recent record. After all, it is us who desperately seek what AILD chose to find. We all need AILD to remind ourselves of who we are. I'm no different." -Sputnik Music

Since the album is nearing it's release date (Sept. 25th, 2012), we will see many more updates to this article so keep checking back!

Metal Blade Records gave us all the juicy details into the upcoming work of AILD:

"The Grammy-nominated group AS I LAY DYING will premiere a new song "Cauterize" today (Friday, June 22) on Sirius Radio's "Liquid Metal" channel at 5:00pm ET. This Sunday, the song will debut on www.AsILayDying.com for free starting at midnight PST for 24 hours only. It will then be available for download on iTunes and online everywhere the next day. AS I LAY DYING are currently holed up in the Blasting Room with renowned rock producer Bill Stevenson, who's also the drummer for Descendents (and has played with Black Flag); and mixer Colin Richardson. The group -- NICK HIPA (guitar), TIM LAMBESIS (vocals), JORDAN MANCINO (drums), PHIL SGROSSO (guitar) and JOSH GILBERT (bass) -- are putting the finishing touches on their new album AWAKENED, due out September 25 on Metal Blade.

AWAKENED marks the follow-up the Decas EP (2011) which reached #2 on the iTunes Rock Chart. The group's last LP, 2010's immensely successful The Powerless Rise debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at #10. The Powerless Rise also reached #2 on Billboard's Independent Albums Chart and #3 on Billboard's Hard Music Albums Chart.

AS I LAY DYING will join the fifth annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, the world's largest touring heavy music festival, which kicks off June 30 in San Bernardino, CA. The main stage will be the strongest ever with the headlining slot occupied by multi-platinum Iowa legends Slipknot, with legendary metal acts Slayer, and Motörhead supporting. AS I LAY DYING will join the main stage in rotation, alongside The Devil Wears Prada and Asking Alexandria; see all dates below. During the Mayhem Festival, AS I LAY DYING will be offering a limited edition laminate which serves as the way to pre-order a copy of AWAKENED from the band directly at their merch booth onsite. Each laminate will have a unique code which fans can enter at www.metalblade.com/awakened for the CD to be shipped directly to their doorstep. Fans must redeem the code by November 1st, 2012 (available in the continental U.S. only). Redemptions received by September 12 will ship by September 18. The laminate will only be available for purchase at the band's merch booth on the Mayhem Festival (purchase price includes the laminate, CD, and shipping)."

Since AILD had a very successful run with the Rockstar Mayhem tour this summer, they are all shipped off now to Europe, and then US/Canada to get everyone hyped up for "Cauterize":