Vio-Lence - Flesh from Bone (GUITAR PLAYTHROUGH)

Buy here: Phil Demmel and Bobby Gustafson rip through the riffs in “Flesh from Bone“ from the “Let the World Burn“ EP. Formed in 1985, Oakland thrashers Vio-Lence helped define and refine what came to be known as the Bay Area sound, dropping three seminal albums before splitting in 1993. Leaving behind a heady legacy, they reformed briefly a couple of times in the intervening years before becoming a full-time going concern once more in 2019. After playing a string of successful shows, the quintet started to think about new music and in 2022 they deliver Let The World Burn, a five-song EP showcasing their first new material in 29 years, which delivers on the classic Vio-Lence sound. “That came very naturally,“ states founding guitarist Phil Demmel. “I hadn’t written a lot of thrash in the past 17 years or so but being the main songwriter for the band over the years I wanted that sound, I wanted that mid-80s raw thing, but I als