Rochester, NY death metal band UNDEATH has released their new album today, titled More Insane, via Prosthetic Records. Accompanying the album release, UNDEATH has also shared a music video for the title-track. More Insane arrives in the midst of their ongoing North American headline tour dates, with the group making good on their promise of “the biggest, baddest, nastiest UNDEATH record yet.”
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Speaking on the title-track, UNDEATH vocalist Alexander Jones comments: “We were on tour back in 2022 and had just played a show in Manhattan. Kyle (Beam, guitar) and I were drinking at a bar nearby post-set and he goes, “‘I’m writing this new song right now and I think I’m gonna call it MORE INSANE.” I didn’t even need to hear the song or read any of the lyrics to know that it absolutely needed to be the title track of the
record too. And what a track it is! It channels so many of our classic death metal influences while feeling 100% like ourselves the entire time. When we were recording it with Mark he told us “you guys are going to be playing this song for the rest of your lives”, and I sincerely hope he’s right. It’s one of my personal favorites in our whole fetid catalogue.”
Previous album It’s Time… To Rise from the Grave caught a wave of acclaim on TheNeedleDrop’s YouTube channel, earned Best New Music from Pitchfork, and, most impressively, rocketed to the top of Decibel Magazine’s Top 40 Albums of 2022, along with a coveted cover feature. On More Insane, UNDEATH – featuring Kyle Beam (guitars), Alexander Jones (vocals), Tommy Wall (bass), Jared Welch (guitars), and Matt Browning (drums)—feast on the rotten flesh of brutality, complexity, and depravity.
If the gross-out teenage hallucinations of It’s Time… rattled death metal’s caved-in cranium, More Insane explodes with even sicker vistas. Lyrically, UNDEATH pick up, in part, where Necrobionics and Enhancing the Dead left off. Indeed, the undead armies (from space) cause more carnage in Sutured for War and Dead from Beyond. Elsewhere, the New Yorkers summon nightmares from video games (Bloodborne, etc.) on Cramped Caskets (Necrology), turn to high fantasy on Brandish the Blade, and man-eating laboratory demons on Disattachment of a Prophylactic in the Brain. Unifying themes of murder, weirdos, psychotic people (who kill others), and more lunacy prevail on More Insane. Browning’s eye-catching cover art of a splayed head atop an optic white background engulfs all in graphic, blood-soaked glory.
The recording of More Insane was hearsed over to American studio wizard Mark Lewis (Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder) at Mark Lewis Audio in Nashville, TN. UNDEATH and Lewis met after a gig in Alabama. They became fast friends. With the basics out of the way, the group set up a month-long residency at Lewis’s studio to nail down More Insane. UNDEATH and Lewis co-produced, while Lewis handled engineering, mixing, and mastering. Brandish the Blade, Disputatious Malignancy, Dead from Beyond, and the title track are pure, unyielding death brought to horrifying reality by a kick-ass production.
Expect UNDEATH to take More Insane to their diehard fans around the world. Expect more bloodshed, crazier merch, and a ton of fun. In life, there’s only UNDEATH. Only this time, it’s More Insane!
More Insane tracklisting
- Dead From Beyond
- More Insane
- Brandish the Blade
- Disputatious Malignancy
- Sutured For War
- Cramped Caskets (Necrology)
- Bounty Hunter
- Wailing Cadavers
- Disattachment of a Prophylactic in the Brain
- Bones Clattering in the Cave
More Insane will be available on multiple physical formats including various vinyl variants as well as on cassette and CD. Pre-orders are live now – CLICK HEREFOR MORE.