Following their 2023 EP, Darkened Demise, Frank Hetzel’s Beltfed Weapon are back with a brand new single, “Tortured Within.” It features previous collaborators Kragen Lum and Bryan Newbury, plus metal luminaries Stu Block and Mike LePond. Check out the new track and its lyric video in the article below.
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EP REVIEW: Beltfed Weapon – Darkened Demise
Beltfed Weapon has often felt like a fun but sort of long-running vanity (but nonetheless valid) project for Seattle’s talented Frank Hetzel, many years between quite short releases featuring a who’s who of underground metal players guesting in support of a slightly odd discography. It is strange to me that there aren’t a series of full-lengths after so much time spent between releases, but every shorter thing Frank has released still has moments to enjoy for the casual thrash, death, and (at times) power metal fan.
Beltfed Weapon And Ronny Munroe Team Up For Charity Single, Video Out Now
Seattle metallers Beltfed Weapon and Ronny Munroe (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Metal Church, Munroe’s Thunder) have teamed up to release a new single and video, ‘P.O.W.’. Originally the goal was to merely work together, but now all proceeds will benefit Munroe’s wife/manager J. Von Hughes, who has received a Stage 3 Mullerian Ovarian Cancer diagnosis and has enormous medical expenses and bills. Watch the lyric video by acclaimed Bulgarian artist Maria Nicheva below.Continue reading