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Riding high on the critical acclaim afforded last year’s MORIBUND album Metal of Honor, hailed by many critics as THE thrash metal assault of 2009, NOCTURNAL FEAR guitarist/founder Chris Slavehunter PhD reports that he’s nearly settled on a new bassist and, above all, that writing has commenced for the follow-up album, currently titled Excessive Cruelty. Tentative song titles at the moment include:

I am War
Human Shield
Murder for Hire
You’re the Disease (I’m the Cure)
Rolling Thunder
Excessive Cruelty
Absolute Annihilation
World War 3

NOCTURNAL FEAR’s Excessive Cruelty is slated for release through MORIBUND during the second half of 2010. Slavehunter concludes the update with the following prophetic words: “We plan on raining on people’s parade with this next disc and continue to call out the fucking posers and smashing faces with our ruthless bullet-belt assault.”