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\nLegendary Seattle metal band, SANCTUARY, has posted the artwork for their upcoming album (seen above), The Year The Sun Died. Created by Travis Smith (OPETH, NEVERMORE).<\/p>\n
The album will be released in North America on October 14 (October 6 in Europe) and will feature 11 tracks. There will be a deluxe media book, available exclusively at CM Distro in the United States, which features expanded packaging and the bonus track, \u201cWaiting for the Sun\u201d, originally recorded by THE DOORS. The vinyl version will come with a CD featuring this bonus track as well.<\/p>\n
The 11 tracks on the CD and LP are as follows:<\/p>\n
The Year The Sun Died track-listing
\n1. Arise and Purify
\n2. Let The Serpent Follow Me
\n3. Exitium (Anthem of the Living)
\n4. Question Existence Fading
\n5. I Am Low
\n6. Frozen
\n7. One Final Day (Sworn to Believe)
\n8. The World is Wired
\n9. The Dying Age
\n10. Ad Vitam Aeternam
\n11. The Year the Sun Died<\/p>\n
SANCTUARY was formed in Seattle in 1985; the band released two studio albums on Epic Records, Refuge Denied in 1987 and Into the Mirror Black in 1989. Worldwide touring with the likes of MEGADETH, WARLOCK, FATES WARNING and DEATH ANGEL, just to name a few, followed each album. Singer Warrel Dane\u2019s sky-high vocals combined with guitarist Lenny Rutledge\u2019s more mature take on classic thrash riffs separated SANCTUARY from the throes of metal bands struggling to get noticed at the time. Simply put, SANCTUARY offered something fresh sounding in the muddled world of \u201980s thrash. Legendary Seattle metal band, SANCTUARY, has posted the artwork for their upcoming album (seen above),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSANCTUARY live:
\nNov. 14 \u2013 Seattle, WA \u2013 S7
\nNov. 15 \u2013 Vancouver, BC \u2013 Rickshaw
\nNov. 16 \u2013 Portland, OR \u2013 Hawthorne
\nNov. 19 \u2013 Anaheim, CA \u2013 The Grove
\nNov. 20 \u2013 Las Vegas, NV \u2013 LVCS
\nNov. 21 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ \u2013 Club Red
\nNov. 22 \u2013 San Diego, CA \u2013 Ramona Mainstage
\nSANCTUARY line-up 2014:
\nWarrel Dane \u2013 Vocals
\nLenny Rutledge \u2013 Guitars
\nJim Sheppard \u2013 Bass
\nDave Budbill \u2013 Drums
\nBrad Hull \u2013 Guitars
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