Thrasheři SKURK s novinkou!

Icelandic thrash act Skurk is gearing up to release "Final Gift" on June 20th, 2014 and the band has now dropped a lyric video for the title track, which can be seen below. The following press release was also issued about Skurk:

"The name Skurk is an old northern word, and stands for all kinds of noise and fuss or hooligan and ribaldry. The music is inspired by Kreator, Metallica, Sacred Reich, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Helloween, Nuclear Assault, Wrathchild America and Black Sabbath to name some of the guys’ most favourite bands then and now.

Skurk toured Iceland ferociously for three years - through blizzard and snow, and finally bought a studio. The next step was to make an album, which was distributed mostly amongst friends and family. Subsequently the band broke up, and in the coming years some of the members found themselves in various bands such as Changer and Shiva while others pursued other interests and work careers as lumberjack mountain guides and meat cleavers.

Skurk reunited in 2011 to play a special concert with viking band Skálmöld, teamed up with drummer Porvalur Helgason (Gruesome Glory, Malignant Mist) the concert was a total success, and the band decided to continue rehearsing. Skurk later shared the stage with great artists as Legend, L’esprit Du Clan, Hangman's Chair, Momentum, and Eiríkur Hauksson (Eric Hawk) from Artch, amongst others. With revitalised spark, new music started to brew, and in 2013 Skurk went to studio GFG to record a new album and hired non other than Kristján Heiðarsson (Changer, Dark Harvest, Vetur) to play the drums. Since the original album was released in such limited edition, the band members decided to record their favourite tracks from the early days, along with one new track."

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