MACERATION release today their brand new “Serpent Devourment”. Brutality, speed and heaviness are the key words for all the ten tracks in the album tracks, but also melody and catchy riffs and choruses characterize Maceration’s music, as always. This applies to the heavy riffs in the title track and “Where Leeches Thrive” and the fast easily recognizable themes in “The Den of Misery” or the triplet based aggressive main riff in “A Corrosive Heart Fell Below”.
The whole new album is a varied creature, with fast death metal attacks like “The Suffering” and “For The End Alone” over heavy “Revolt The Tyrant Dream”, “In Rot Unleashed” or “Emptiness Embraced”. Fans of Maceration will nod in recognition to the band’s hallmarks and style, while new listeners will be embraced by stylish, brutal and aggressive old school death metal that has references back to the forefathers of death metal and also from the members’ previous bands such as Invocator, Spectral Mortuary and Corpus Mortale.
In addition to singer Jan Bergmann Jepsen (ex-Cor Vacante), who took over the recording duties from the mighty Dan Swanö for this album, the band consists of Jakob Schultz – guitarist and main composer and only original member who was also previously in the renowned Danish band Invocator. Rune Koldby is a bass player with years of experience in Danish metal bands such as Exmortem and Spectral Mortuary, while the drums are handled by Nicolai Kaltoft (ex. Corpus Mortale) and Robert Tengs is the rhythm guitarist.
“Serpent Devourment” is out today on LP (black vinyl limited to 300 copies and light blue vinyl, limited to 200), CD and digital via Emanzipation Productions. Orders are available here.
“Serpent Devourment” tracklist:
1. Serpent Devourment
2. The Den Of Misery
3. A Corrosive Heart Fell Below
4. Where Leeches Thrive
5. The Suffering
6. Emptiness Embraced
7. When Torment Befell My Pain
8. In Rot Unleashed
9. Revolt The Tyrant Dream
10. For The End Alone
In November 2022, Danish band Maceration released their new album “It Never Ends…” with death metal legend Dan Swanö – Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath etc. – on vocals. This was 30 years after their 1992 album “A Serenade Of Agony” was released. Also with Dan Swanö on vocals and members from Invocator. The Danish band played a central role in the Danish death metal scene and were among the pioneers of the style in Denmark.
With a comeback album 30 years after the debut, there has been great interest in the resurrected band. Maceration has received massive press coverage in the largest media within the metal genre both in Denmark and abroad. With the great success of the comeback album, it is now time for a new Maceration album.
Enter the band’s third album “Serpent Devourment”. Again, Dan Swanö has played an important role in the creation as producer and the man behind the mix in his Unisound studio.
But this time he has not recorded the vocals. Maceration’s regular lead singer Jan Bergmann Jepsen leaves no doubt after he has taken over the vocals on the new recordings. Jan Bergmann has been with Maceration live since the resurrection in 2022 and on some tracks on “It Never Ends” in a duet with Swanö, but now he is alone at the front. With a deep, growling and brutal vocal style, he is the perfect successor to Swanö and he carves this into stone on the new album.
Lineup:
Jan Bergmann Jepsen – vocals
Nicolai Kaltoft – drums
Rune Koldby – bass
Robert Tengs – guitar
Jakob Schultz – lead guitar
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Live dates:
31.01 – Kulturscenen, Esbjerg (DK)
01.02 – Fermaten, Herning (DK)
07.02 – Posten, Odense (DK)
08.02 – Rust, Copenhagen (DK)
13.02 – Der Schwarze Keiler, Stuttgart (DE)
14.02 – Club Potok, Warsaw (PL)
15.02 – Black Valentine Fest, Rock Fabric, Poprad (SV)
08.03 – Kedelhuset, Silkeborg (DK)
27.03 – Tung Torsdag, Aabenraa (DK)
18.04 – Von Hatten, Randers (DK)
06.06 – Heavy Agger Festival, Agger (DK)
26.07 – Stonehenge Festival, (NL)
01.08 – Dortmund Deathfest, Dortmund (DE)
5/6.09 – Raise Your Horns, Bornholm, (DK)
| “Full-on death metal approach” Metal Hammer Magazine “Do you like Entombed, Edge Of Sanity and Entrails? Then you also love Maceration” 8/10 Rock Tribune “If you are like Swedish death a la Dismember with Benediction vocals, then you should bring “Serpent Devourment” home” 8/10 Metalized Magazine “It’s easy to imagine that these songs will cause real mosh pits at performances” 12/15 Legacy Magazine “The record’s massive sound captures me already during the opening title track” Sweden Rock Magazine “There is a little bit of everything for everyone. Absolutely well done from the boys here” Scream Magazine “Maceration makes no attempts to reinvent death metal, but what they do, they do well” Aardschok Magazine “Classic death metal wrapped in a superb, updated HM-2 sound” 4/5 Devilution “Anyone who doesn’t wince at this doesn’t deserve Dan Swanö” 8/10 Powermetal.de “Macerationis one of those bands whose rebirth confirms Old School Death Metal’s power, even thirty years on” 85/100 Acta Infernalis “Old, classic, raw death metal par excellence, played with the refinement of experienced masters!” Deadly Storm Zine |