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To recreate that original chemistry, the band recruited the legendary producer John Fryer to again helm Chasing Ghosts. Fryer, whose production credits include Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, 4AD, Cocteau Twins, and Love and Rockets, originally worked with Stabbing Westward on their best-selling early releases Ungod (1994) and Wither Blister Burn + Peel (1996). Chasing Ghosts was also mastered by Tom Baker who, like Fryer, worked with Stabbing Westward on their early releases and is part of the reassembled production team on the latest album. The current Stabbing Westward band lineup includes Carlton Bost (guitars and programming) and Bobby Amaro (drums). Says Walter Flakus, "It seems like we've been working on this album for a long time, trying to get it just right. With the help of John Fryer and COP International, everything fell into place. We are so excited for the world to finally hear the album. " Adds Christopher Hall: "It's great to be back and working with John Fryer and Tom Baker again was awesome and felt like making a pure old-school Stabbing Westward album. I was so excited to have the opportunity to go back to the very roots of SW by working with John again. John really helped us develop our sound on our first album and then help us take a huge leap forward with our second album. Even though this is our 5th full-length album, after such a long break it feels like a new beginning and it's very cool to have John at the helm once again. "" The album is featuring artwork by David Seidman (an artist who has also worked with Coheed And Cambria and is known for his ethereal and surrealistic imagery)

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As someone who has been playing Stabbing Westward on the radio for years (currently on Loudwire Nights, listen for free via the Loudwire app), stoked they are back! The band will be releasing 'Chasing Ghosts,' their first studio album in over 20 years, on March 18. So far they've offered up the song 'I Am Nothing,' and just followed that up with 'Ghost.' The band is looking to recreate that original chemistry, and I think that's achieved on the track. Dig that beat. They sound like they did back in the day -- definitely worth a check out.

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CHASING GHOSTS benefits from this: It relies on a consistently further thought-out, reflected version of the feverishly seething industrial sound with which Stabbing Westward once became MTV legends. Instead, there is a large portion of power, melancholy

     —Metal Hammer Germany

I say 'return' because after listening, you might not believe this band hasn't put out a full-length album in almost 20 years. Stabbing Westward, regarded as one of the most catchy industrial rock outfits of the previous quarter-century, have not only dev

     —Metal Sucks

Chasing Ghosts, Stabbing Westward's first new album in 21 years, is an interesting new offering from the veteran industrial metal band. It is for the most part, everything that audiences have come to expect from the quartet musically and lyrically. Speaki

     —Phils Picks

Stabbing Westward fans will get everything they love about the band and fair weathered fans might just be won over with this album. An absolute must buy for your industrial rock collection.

     —Spill Magazine

It also suggests that STABBING WESTWARD may only be scratching the surface of their renewed potential here.

     —Dom Lawson, Blabber Mouth

The time is ripe for the return of Stabbing Westward.

     —Max Morin, Metal Injection