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RINGWORM To Play Entire First Album At Tomorrow Night's Concert

June 22, 2007

D.X. Ferris of the Cleveland Scene reports that the Cleveland-based metal/hardcore band RINGWORM will play its debut album, 1993's "The Promise", in its entirety tomorrow night (Saturday, June 23) at the Jigsaw Saloon & Stage in Parma, Ohio.

Invoking comparisons to the CRO-MAGS and SLAYER, the disc was a key development in metalcore: HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta has cited it as a life-changing experience, and it was reissued in 2003 by Deathwish, the label owned by CONVERGE frontman Jacob Bannon. Bannon also overhauled its artwork, replacing its eye-catching, blurry photography with 18th-century woodblock carvings of satanic figures.

"It's the first time we played the whole first album since — well, since that's all the songs we had," says frontman James "The Human Furnace" Bulloch, also a partner in the renowned 252 Tattoo, which celebrates its 10th anniversary that night.

"We just wanted to do a little something special. Everybody always asks for us to do old songs," Bulloch adds. "So we're like, 'Fuck it, let's do the whole first album.' It's gonna be a good time — a one-time-only thing."

BEYOND FEAR/LAW OF DESTRUCTION's John Comprix has been tapped to play guitar for RINGWORM at tomorrow night's gig.

RINGWORM's new LP, "The Ninth Circle: The Venomous Grand Design" (due on August 21 via Victory),was recorded with Ben Schigel (CHIMAIRA, WALLS OF JERICHO) at Spider Studios. The disc is the group's fourth in a 17-year career, arriving after 2005's "Justice Replaced by Revenge", which cemented the band's status in international hardcore and metal circles.

"The new album shreds, period," says Bulloch. "It's pissed, for sure. Fast, ripping guitars. A lot more thrash-metal influence on this one. Imagine VOIVOD, EXODUS, KREATOR, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, D.R.I., SODOM, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, and SLAYER all puking in same toilet, or something like that."

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