Live Leather Hounds

Thrilling German blackened/speed metal outfit KNIFE is set to release the new EP, Live Leather Hounds, on August 23, 2024 via Napalm Records. Formed in 2019, the band overcame the challenges of the pandemic and cemented their presence in the scene once more with the previous studio album, Heaven Into Dust (2023), which German Rock Hard described as “one of the strongest (black)-speed albums of the year”. In the same year, KNIFE also demonstrated their raging live performance at major festival shows like Wacken Open Air and Rock Hard festival, and just impressed with their furious set at Rockharz Festival 2024. Now, the quartet unveils five raging live tracks that were recorded during the Evil Obsession Tour with the mighty Sodom in 2023 and features a powerful cover of the black thrash icons Desaster. Recorded at the Turbinenhalle in Oberhausen and the Obertraubling Eventhalle Airport in Regensburg, Live Leather Hounds showcases an energetic and organic mix of KNIFE’s discography. The EP opens with the demonic “White Witch / Black Death”, setting ...