Contents.Background Cobalt began as a solo project of Phil McSorley, under the name Grimness Enshroud, who released one demo. Childhood friend Erik Wunder then joined the band and the name was changed to Cobalt in 2002. The name Cobalt was chosen because, in the words of Wunder, 'we wanted a name that didn't entail anything.
Country of origin: United States Location: Atlantic City, New Jersey Status: Active Formed in: 2011 Genre: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Lyrical themes: Sex, Drugs, Booze, Rock n Roll. Hammerfight (Game) - Giant Bomb - User Reviews Pilot your steampunk flying machine equipped with medieval weaponry and flail around recklessly in an attempt to bludgeon your opponent to death. There's also a story mode, but the meat and potatoes of this game are the arena battles.
Something basic. Something elemental. The name 'Cobalt' leaves room for any variety of directions'.
Wunder drums and performs all of the guitars and bass on the studio albums, and performs the drums live. McSorley provided vocals until 2015, when he split with the band due to personal differences. Mcsorley was replaced by Chicago's Charlie Fell, who is the current front man and vocalist for Cobalt. Wunder and Fell met during the Jarboe/Nachtmystium European tour in 2010.
Fell formerly played bass and vocals in black sludge metal band Lord Mantis. Aside from being in Cobalt, Phil McSorley has served tours of duty with the U.S. Army in Iraq and South Korea, while Wunder fronts folk band and plays in experimental singer 's band. Debut and Eater of Birds The first album, War Metal, was mostly raw and primitive black metal, with the occasional hint of what Cobalt was to become. The following album, Eater of Birds, has been cited as 'a great step in the bands evolution'. Aside from being inspired by early 1990s black metal, the album embraced such influences as and, with (of Swans) making guest appearances on Cobalt's last two albums. Eater of Birds has been described as featuring '70 minute monolith of blasting war metal, massive thrash riffs, drawn-out crescendoes and ritualistic interludes'.
Both albums were out of print for years and commanded high prices on webstores such as eBay, but in April 2013 Eater of Birds was reissued by.Gin The follow up to Eater of Birds, Gin, further cemented the duo as one of the very best forward thinking, envelope shredding purveyors of black metal that the US has to offer. It was released in 2009 to critical acclaim, being described as 'an album that truly, viscerally expanded the possibilities of black metal, both musically and thematically'. Among other accolades it was voted as the second best album of 2009 by Terrorizer. The album was largely inspired by two literary figures,. The front cover features a young Hemingway in army uniform, whereas the back cover has a bloated and aged Hemingway brandishing the same shotgun that he took his life with.
A picture of Thompson shooting his typewriter is in the center of the inlay.Slow Forever McSorley has stated that the band plan on recording a new album following their East Coast tour in May 2013, and that it will be entitled.On March 17, 2014, McSorley announced via the band's Facebook page that he was quitting Cobalt. He gave Wunder his blessings to continue with the project, if Wunder so chooses.
A month later McSorley announced that he and Wunder would indeed be recording Slow Forever together and that their differences had been settled.On December 16, 2014, Wunder announced via Cobalt's Facebook page that, once again.and for good this time, Phil was out of the project due to certain personal differences and viewpoints expressed that aren't agreeable to the band. On June 23, 2015, Cobalt revealed that Wunder was officially in the studio and actively recording Slow Forever, with a tentative release date of early 2016.
Two days later, Cobalt also revealed on their Facebook page the identity of its new vocalist. Charlie Fell (ex-Lord Mantis) will be contributing to the new album. It was confirmed on 26 January 2016, that the new album will be released on 25 March 2016, via Profound Lore Records, and will be a double album. Discography. Hammerfight demo (2003). War Metal (2005, From Beyond Productions). (2007, Profound Lore).
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Different versions!The page should indicate the key differences between the different versions available, depending on the distribution platform: Steam only delivers the 1.004 version, while Desura and Humble (in the Humble Bundle 3) only deliver the 1.005 version. That new version has a new game mode, some gameplay changes and bug fixes.The developer indicated several years ago on a game development forum that he sent the 1.006 version to the editor, but has yet to hear from them. Nothing is known about the 1.006 changes (or it's only known by a handful of people close to the developer).
It's a significant information, as the game is not without its own issues (regarding balance, game design and physics bugs).