ONSLAUGHT founding member and guitarist Nige Rockett is making ready to make his return to the dwell stage with the band after a three-year absence following an extended battle with sickness. His first look again will probably be on the 70000 Tons Of Steel cruise later this month as ONSLAUGHT kicks off a yr of Fortieth-anniversary reveals celebrating the discharge of the veteran British thrash steel group’s debut album, “Energy From Hell”.
Rockett has endured a variety of most cancers elimination operations, chemotherapy in addition to two spinal operations — higher and decrease backbone — throughout his compelled hiatus, with each situations now fortunately in full remission/restoration and persevering with to heal.
Rockett feedback: “It has been a kinda brutal time over the previous few years however it’s nice to lastly be again. I am not 100% by any means and it is gonna take a good whereas to get the health again, however this can assist massively for certain.”
He added: “Sadly, no extra headbanging for me. The surgeons have advised me that it was the probably explanation for one of many unique accidents and that I need to behave sooner or later or threat a recurrence.
“See you within the pit.”
ONSLAUGHT will embark on a European tour in Could/June 2025, performing “Energy From Hell” in its entirety
ONSLAUGHT‘s newest album, “Technology Antichrist”, got here out in August 2020 by way of AFM Information. It was the primary ONSLAUGHT LP to characteristic new vocalist Dave Garnett, who changed longtime singer Sy Keeler.
Garnett made his dwell debut with ONSLAUGHT on the Home Of Steel pageant in Umeå, Sweden in February 2020.
ONSLAUGHT introduced Keeler‘s departure in April 2020, explaining in a press release that “some issues merely aren’t sustainable yr after yr because of the nature of the modern-day music trade.”
ONSLAUGHT is likely one of the most ferocious, explosive and controversial steel bands ever to return out of the U.Ok. The group launched three now-legendary albums within the Eighties — “Energy From Hell”, “The Pressure” and “In Search of Sanity” — and have become a serious affect for a lot of steel generations to observe.
Since reforming in 2005, ONSLAUGHT has carried out numerous reveals in at least 70 totally different international locations throughout the globe, incomes themselves the status as one of many easiest dwell acts within the steel scene at this time. ONSLAUGHT additionally has the enviable kudos of being the primary worldwide thrash band to carry out in Vietnam and Lebanon.
5 critically acclaimed albums have been launched between 2007 and 2015 — “Killing Peace”, “Stay Damnation”, “Sounds Of Violence”, “VI” and “Stay At The Slaughterhouse” — with tens of millions of streams between them.
Produced by Grammy Award-winning engineer Daniel Bergstrand (MESHUGGAH, IN FLAMES, BEHEMOTH),“Technology Antichrist” gathered enormous worldwide acclaim, with many famend rock and steel pundits declaring it the album of the yr.