
San Francisco quartet Hell Fire premiere a new track from their forthcoming third album Mania today.
Check out “Warpath” below:
Mania is the band’s first proper album on RidingEasy Records, following the label’s worldwide reissue of the band’s self-released 2017 sophomore breakout Free Again, released on January 18th.
Formed in recent years in San Francisco, though it may seem more likely that they hatched fresh out of a time travel portal from the mid-80s Bay Area thrash scene, Hell Fire have the classic look and sound of modern metal’s halcyon days. Hell Fire’s sonic assault warmly condenses elements of influences like Angel Witch, Iron Maiden, Rainbow, Exodus, Metallica, Riot, Virtue and Diamond Head into 10 tracks of headbanging MUYA anthems.
The free-wheelin’ creativity and infectious vitality of the 80s Bay Area thrash scene is a moment forever locked in time, but its spirit lives on in the band’s galloping guitar picks, soaring harmonies and blistering rhythms. Hell Fire’s perfect hybrid of NWOBHM theatrics and American thrash attitude.
