by Rob Sperry-Fromm

Los Angeles metal maniacs Graf Orlock are readying their new album Crime Traveler for release on February 5 via Vitriol Records. In anticipation, BV is premiering the new single, "600,000 Tons of Explosive Ordinance" (which follows "A Decent Proposal in a Shitty Alley" and "Difficult Decisions in the Yutani Mess Hall"). All three are streaming below.

Always known for filling their blistering hardcore with reference to famous movies like Heat, Robocop and Terminator, the new album is actually entirely based on and constituted of a film that the band wrote, directed, and starred in themselves. From the band:



The Crime Traveler film tells the story of a French-Canadian assassin who discovers a wormhole and travels back in time to kill American politicians so that Canada can attain superpower status in the future. As the samples selected for the album illustrate, our anti-hero zips through time and space on his mission - rubbing elbows with John Hinckley at the Reagan assassination, witnessing the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and more.

All ambitious concepts aside, the song is what we've come to expect from Graf Orlock; that is, hardcore/death/grind that is as pummeling as it is smart and occasionally hooky. Opening with the sound of a bong hit (hilarious), the song begins with a crawl and opens up into a furious churn that carries it through to a ripping, highly death-metal oriented guitar solo and a crushing conclusion.

Tour dates are TBA, but Graf Orlock have a release show coming up for this in LA, which goes down in Anaheim at Chain Reaction on January 31 with Dangers, Bad Antics, Sister Rust and Entry. Tickets for that are currently on sale.

Check out "600,00 Tons of Explosive Ordinance," along with the other two songs from Crime Traveler, below...



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