{"id":22300,"date":"2018-07-01T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exhimusic.com\/magazine\/?p=22300"},"modified":"2018-07-01T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T16:04:28","slug":"tornado-commitment-to-excellence-extreme-metal-music-31-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exhimusic.com\/magazine\/2018\/07\/01\/tornado-commitment-to-excellence-extreme-metal-music-31-august-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado: “Commitment To Excellence” – Extreme Metal Music (31 August 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

American\/Finnish sensations\u00a0TORNADO<\/strong>\u00a0have returned with their third release, aptly titled\u00a0“Commitment To Excellence”<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>11 songs of highly catchy and in-your-face Thrash Metal!<\/p>\n

Formed in 2010 in Amsterdam, Netherlands,\u00a0TORNADO<\/strong>\u00a0quickly released their Peter Tagtgren (Hypocrisy\/Pain) produced debut album “Amsterdamn, Hellsinki”. 2016 saw the release of the sophomore album “Black President” as well as the video for the anti-bullying song “David and Goliath” which caught the attention of several anti-bullying agencies, one of which used singer\u00a0Superstar Joey Severance<\/strong>\u00a0in a country wide advertising campaign.<\/p>\n

With\u00a0“Commitment To Excellent”<\/em>,\u00a0TORNADO<\/strong>\u00a0continue to do what they do best: writing songs that you can actually remember, with their own original recipe consisting in a blend of thrash, sleazy and glam!<\/p>\n

Featuring:\u00a0Nile\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Karl Sanders<\/strong>,\u00a0Immolation\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Ross Dolan<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Pro-Pain\u2019s<\/em>Adam Phillips<\/strong>, as well as\u00a0Glen Drover<\/strong>\u00a0(former Megadeth member)<\/em>. Produced by\u00a0Ben Varon<\/strong>\u00a0(ex-Amoral\/Oceanhoarse), mixed\/mastered and engineered by\u00a0AK, Chris Paccou<\/strong>\u00a0(FOH Engineer of Slayer)\u00a0\u201cCommitment to Excellence\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is set to be released via\u00a0Extreme Metal Music<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0August 31, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Global Pandemic” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/o9g-fjYIpRU<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nTRACKLIST:<\/strong>
\n01 – A Minute of Nothing
\n02 – White Horse of the Apocalypse\u00a0(feat. Karl Sanders\/Nile, Additional Vocals: Niko Kallioj\u00e4rvi\/ex-Amoral)
\n03 – Global Pandemic
\n04 – Spirit and Opportunity \u00a0(Additional Vocals: Ross Dolan\/Immolation)
\n05 – The Flight of Yuri Gagarin
\n06 – Endless Forms of Torment\u00a0(Additional Solo: Adam Phillips\/Pro-Pain)
\n07 – Through Difficulties to Victory
\n08 – Supremacy
\n09 – Chaos among the Ruins
\n10 – United Forces (S.O.D. Cover)
\n11 – At the Chapel of Rest (Additional Solo: Glen Drover\/ex Megadeth)<\/p>\n

TORNADO:<\/strong>
\nSuperstar Joey Severance<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Vocals
\nTommy Shred<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Guitar
\nHenri Stee<\/strong>l \u2013 Bass
\nJimmy Grey<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Drums<\/p>\n

www.facebook.com\/tornadofinland<\/a>
\nwww.youtube.com\/tornadosuomi<\/a>
\nwww.twitter.com\/tornadofin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American\/Finnish sensations\u00a0TORNADO\u00a0have returned with their third release, aptly titled\u00a0“Commitment To Excellence”,\u00a011 songs of highly catchy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121,2709],"tags":[2703,1884,1163,3447],"class_list":["post-22300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anteprime","category-metal-news","tag-extreme-metal-music","tag-rockshots-records","tag-thrash-metal","tag-tornado"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.exhimusic.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TornadoBand.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jNPU-5NG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36175,"url":"https:\/\/www.exhimusic.com\/magazine\/2019\/05\/08\/calamity-kairos-thrash-metal-band-from-puerto-rico-independent-10-may-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":22300,"position":0},"title":"Calamity: “Kairos” – Thrash Metal Band from Puerto Rico – Independent 10 May 2019","author":"Exhimusic - Percorsi nella musica","date":"08\/05\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Puerto Rican thrashing outfit CALAMITY originally started off as a Metallica cover band under the moniker Silent Scream in 2009 and shortly after having own materials, they decided to continue under the name of Hush. 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