On Friday June 6th, Austrian Death Machine released the first single from their eagerly awaited debut, Total Brutal. The track, “If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It”, features the voice of Ahhnold as Dutch from the movie Predator screaming back and forth with the Predator himself! “In the first verse Ahhnold is talking trash about how he’s going to take Predator down, but in the second verse Predator comes back spittin’ his evil game. This is the classic struggle of good and evil but with way bigger muscles and more brutal double bass. In fact, I think it’s the breakdown about 1/2 way through the song that crushes Predator’s evil once and for all” comments band member Tim Lambesis.

One could not pick a better track for the first single off Total Brutal. Mainly because Predator is one of the best movies ever made in the history of man and received a countless amount of awards at the 1987 Oscars (Best Actor Ever, Best Chest Explosion, Best Use of Chameleon-like Camouflage to Kill as Many People as You Can, Cast Most Likely To Go On To Be Governors, etc). Or at least we think it did. And if it didn’t then it should have seeing as Ahhnold once again saved the world, this time from aliens who wanted nothing more than to peel the skin off our bodies and make trophies out of our skulls.

Here’s what front-man Ahhnold had to say about the band’s first single:

“Most bands put all of their good songs first. Instead I decided to release track 15 first to prove that this album is Total Brutal from start to finish. If you like this song, then get ready for 17 tracks of punishing brutality when the CD finally hits…. or when I hit you in the face for not buying it. Whichever happens first, at least we know things only get better from here.”

Lyrics to “If it Bleeds, We Can Kill It”

Dutch:

Raaar!

If it bleeds, we can kill it

If it bleeds, we can kill it

You’re one ugly mother and that’s why I’m talking trash

I’ve seen you bleed and now I know that I can kick your… ahhhh

I’m going to take you down

I’m going to take you down

Predator:

You are the hunted, you run in fear

Must I remind you that I have killed your friends

Must I remind you that your life is at it’s end

Dutch:

If it bleeds, we can kill it

If it bleeds, we can kill it

If it bleeds, we can kill it

If it bleeds, we can kill it

I’m going to take you down

I’m going to take you down

I’ve seen you bleed and that makes you just like me

The only difference between us is

You’re the one who’s going to die

Predator:

This is my planet now

I’m hear to hunt your kind

This is a game to me

You’ll all be dead in time

Must I remind you that I have killed your friends

Must I remind you that your life is at it’s end

Dutch:

I once was the hunted, but now your time is through

The tides have turned, and now I’m hunting you

If it bleeds, we can kill it

If it bleeds, we can kill it

If it bleeds, we can kill it

If it bleeds, we can kill it

AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE’s Metal Blade debut, Total Brutal, available everywhere July 22nd.

Total Brutal track listing:

1. Hello California

2. Get to the Choppa

3. Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers

4. All of the Songs Sound the Same

5. I am a Cybernetic Organism, Living Tissue Over (Metal) Endoskeleton

6. Come With Me if You Want to Live

7. What it’s like to be a Singer at Band Practice

8. Who is Your Daddy, and What Does He Do?

9. You Have Just Been Erased

10. Broo-Tall Song Idea

11. Here is Subzero, Now Plain Zero

12. So Far, So Good, So Let’s Talk About It

13. Screw You (Benny)

14. Why?

15. If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It

16. It’s Not A Tumor

17. Not So Hidden Track

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