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Reactivated San Francisco Bay Area metallers FORBIDDEN have inked a deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The band entered the studio on March 1 to begin recording its new album for a late 2010 release.

Commented the group in a statement: "We are very proud to announce that FORBIDDEN has signed to Nuclear Blast Records! Ultimately, we all knew that there is NO better label in the world to handle metal and bring it to the masses with authority.

"For the last year, we have been intensely working on our craft while re-examining our past with a perspective we'd never had before. Our vision is clear and we know exactly who and what we are today.

"FORBIDDEN is in an amazing creative space and we can't wait for everyone to hear it!

"We must thank Jaap Wagemaker and everyone else at Nuclear Blast for making their enthusiasm known to us since we've committed to writing this record. Also, there are so many other amazing friends that helped us along the way and we appreciate everything you've done for us to get FORBIDDEN back into a position of strength.

"If you feel in your bones that you are one of them, then you definitely are!

"Thank you all so much."

Added Nuclear Blast A&R Manager Jaap Wagemaker: "We are totally stoked to announce that FORBIDDEN has inked a deal with Nuclear Blast!!

"It is no secret that the staff of Nuclear Blast has a soft spot for thrash metal! We all grew up here with classics such as 'Forbidden Evil' and 'Twisted into Form'!

"I am sure you can imagine that we were totally thrilled when we heard the news that FORBIDDEN were coming back and after seeing them live several times since then and seeing them doing a smoking rendition of 'Twisted into Form', it was totally clear to us! FORBIDDEN needs a new home and that home is called Nuclear Blast! This feeling became even bigger after [guitarist] Craig [Locicero] had sent us the two new songs last year! Needless to say that a dream is coming true!

"The future belongs to FORBIDDEN and together with Nuclear Blast, we will bring the band back on the metal map!

"What the future will bring? I cannot tell you! 'Cause it is…..forbidden!"

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Omega Wave" will be released in Europe on October 22 and in North America on October 26 via Nuclear Blast Records. It was recorded at Sonic Room/Audio Voyage Studios in Livermore, California, produced by FORBIDDEN guitarist/songwriter Craig Locicero with Tim Narducci, and mixed by Sean Beavan (SLAYER, MARILYN MANSON, NINE INCH NAILS).

"'Forsaken At The Gates' is FORBIDDEN's new thrash anthem for the 2010s and beyond," commented guitarist Craig Locicero.

"If we could go back in a time machine to when we called it a day in 1997, there still would have been no way that we could have written 'Forsaken…' back then. We needed the distance and hindsight to write this record and had to get a grip on what the hell FORBIDDEN was all about when we started.

"Our vision is clear. We are a thrash metal band! 'Forsaken At The Gates' says it all.

"If I were to compare 'Forsaken At The Gates' to any of our old songs, it would be 'March Into Fire', which was one of the first songs that I'd ever written in my life. Ironically, 'Forsaken…' was the last song we'd written for 'Omega Wave'. Funny how things work.

"As far as the song itself, Mark was a fucking beast when we tracked it!

"I knew we had a monster on the first take; [there was] great energy and sense of urgency in his performance. It made one hell of a spine to connect all of the other moving parts to. Everyone blasted through their tracks with the same sense of urgency, too.

"Playing those riffs, my blood pumps harder then in any other song I've played on.

"It was an intense session to track and Matt cruises through the entire thing like a bulldozer! The solo section brings me back to the good 'ol days when trade-offs were all over the classic metal records we all love.

"I really love playing and writing with Steve; he makes me so much better and I think we make a great team.

"After that, it's Russ that's next fucking level! Tim and I got him fired up and locked him behind the glass until he sounded as crazed as they lyrics are intended to convey.

"The song itself is about turning away the masses from the numerous underground shelters around the planet that will try to seek protection from any natural or unnatural disaster that would effect all of us on the surface.

"The main line of the song says, 'Corpses laid out for the Rapture, New World Order buried in it's tomb.' In other words, if the surface isn't worth living on and the powers that be decide who lives in a canned air bunker for future generations to come... let them rot down there, that's not a world worth living in!"

Vocalist Russ Anderson added: "Looking back on recording our first album, 'Forbidden Evil', and recording, 'Omega Wave', there really is no comparison. During the recording of 'Forbidden Evil', we were in a time crunch and I sang the whole album in about one and a half days. Impossible some could say, but true. I was happy with the results because that gave the album its rawness that, in my opinion, goes down in history as true as a thrash album gets.

"'Omega Wave' was a slower recording process. I worked with Craig and Tim as my right-hand men and they know me. At times I think they were trying to 'slap me around' a little before the heavy songs like 'Forsaken At The Gates' to get me to approach the song with true aggression.

"You really should not be feeling love and flowers approaching a song like this. Not to say that was what I was thinking, but it helps to bring out the aggression of the song through the vocals.

"'Forsaken At The Gates' was easier for me than some of the others, only because it was the last song I recorded and was done in one session.

"By the time I was on the last of the songs, I had a lot of fire to breathe and did not want to stop.

"As far as my voice being deeper or better, I don't know, I tried to complement each song and be one with it, and to do that, you must be one with your voice. That is something I have strived for over the years and hope it comes across.

"I think that vocals can change or get better over time, like a fine wine. For instance, if you listen back to James Hetfield when he did 'Kill 'Em All', he most definitely has a more adolescent voice than on, say, '...And Justice For All'.

"Vocals are touchy things and definitely unpredictable from day to day. The only way I have found to have any control over it is to approach every song with its intended emotion, which is also the key to a good performance no matter how your voice is holding up that day. Point being, it's a human instrument that mirrors the soul.

"I truly gave it my all on 'Omega Wave' and I hope everyone will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed recording it.

"Hope to see you all on our United States tour that kicks off on the East Coast November 4th, ending on the West Coast on December 11th, 2010.

"Thank you in advance to those that support FORBIDDEN and buy the album.”

"Being able to easily describe a song like 'Dragging My Casket' is damn near impossible," commented guitarist Craig Locicero.

"The lyrical concept was originally brought in by Matt [Camacho, bass]. That in itself is a little bit different for us. He was inspired by the lyrical content that Russ [Anderson, vocals] and I had up to that point.

"Matt sees the world a little bit differently then the rest of us, myself in particular. He came into practice with some lyrics pointed with puzzlement towards people that believe humanity is headed towards its own undoing. Not that he doesn't think it's a possibility, but Matt just won't go there for the most part. He wondered how a person with a family and a kid that loves life as much as I do could hold all of this knowledge as closely as I do without getting depressed. Hell, I do not even know! That got Russ and I into thinking about it and we took Matt's seed and planted it.

"How can you describe these feelings of overwhelming despair that so many people feel today? We imagined what a young person that's barely had a chance to experience life feels with all of the information overload that we have today. Between the lies and the truth are billions of opinions that make a sea of uneasiness.

"It's tough living these days. 'Dragging My Casket' tries to paint that picture. There are so many emotions that one gets while trying to digest all of this regurgitated information and make our own opinion and interpretations of this reality. It tells that story from one persons point of view. In my mind, that is a young person trying to figure out were they fit in today's chaotic society.

"Musically, 'Dragging My Casket' song twists and turns more than any other FORBIDDEN song to date. It's faster, more melodic, heavier, thrashier, dark and beautiful all at different points. Vocally, Russ sounds incredible and really gets into his part as the story unfolds. It's amazing to listen to one man sing starting on 1 and jumping to 10 like no other singer! Some of the best stuff he's ever done is on 'Omega Wave' and this is the centerpiece of the record. I guess I could have just said 'Dragging My Casket' is a fucking epic!”

Metal Exiles' Jeffrey Easton has issued an interview with FORBIDDEN bassist Matt Camacho. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: To start off with, how does it feel to have Forbidden recording and releasing a record almost 25 years after the start up of the band?

A: "Since we’ve been at it for a couple of years it feels like I’ve never left and seems like second nature. However, a couple of years ago I never imagined I would be back here, so I’m totally excited to go from working and college to a new release and a new tour. I do have that same anxious feeling just like when I was a young kid before the album Forbidden Evil came out."

Q: Considering the hiatuses of the band, what have you done musically besides Forbidden for the last decade?

A: "After Forbidden broke up, everyone continued playing music except for me. The other guys all did various other projects, Russ’s was more on the local bar level. Craig, Steve and Tim all went on to play in some popular bands. I was personally disillusioned with the music business and put way to many expectations on us getting the right tours and support from the record company rather than just doing what I do best and what I love and that’s playing metal. I spent a good part of a decade back in school. Now that that I’m back in Forbidden I’ve never felt happier and have no regrets and giving my heart and soul to Forbidden."