Tonight, on May 16, 2025, Dutch death metal veterans ANTROPOMORPHIA celebrate today’s unleashing of their new sixth album “Devoid of Light” with a release show at the Little Devil Bar in Tilburg (NL).
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ANTROPOMORPHIA comment: “This album, ‘Devoid of Light’, is our most eerie and dangerous work to date”, frontman Ferry Damen states. “Six years passed between the previous ‘Merciless Savagery’ and ‘Devoid of Light’, but we composed the latter over a period of two and a half years, which however were spread out across several years. We started writing during the global plague of 2020, but in early 2021 some personal issues led to not being able to write for almost a full year. Sometime in the last quarter of 2022 we were able to continue and after a little more than a year we finished the album. As a result, ‘Devoid of Light’ offers a variety of musical textures: it’s filled with fanatical white-eyed aggression, misanthropic and nihilistic odes, pain, beautiful despair – and all of that became amalgamated within a framework of a dark and oppressive atmosphere.”
Tracklist
1. The Withering Stench of Hope
2. Devoid of Light
3. Funeral Throne
4. In Writhing Rapture
5. Cancerous Bane
6. Unending Hunt
7. Ash Drapes the Earth
8. In the Shade of the Devil’s Horns
9. Triumphant Death
ANTROPOMORPHIA are back! Six years after their acclaimed studio full-length “Merciless Savagery” (2019), the Dutch death dealers return with their most brutal and dark record so far that is aptly entitled “Devoid of Light”.
When ANTROPOMORPHIA created “Devoid of Light” over a period of two and a half years, the recording process was spread out through a much longer process due to a variety of reasons. During the whole time, the band never lost sight of their vision: to combine a wide variety of harsh musical textures including fanatical, white-eyed aggression, misanthropic and nihilistic lyrics, and dark emotions such as anger, despair, and pain among many others into dark and oppressive soundscapes.
ANTROPOMORPHIA were originally spawned from the foul stench of death in the Dutch city of Tilburg in 1990. At the time, they were pioneers, which soon turned them into a corner stone of the brutal music scene in the Netherlands.
After releasing their first official demo “Bowel Mutilation” (1992) the band immediately captured a record deal and recorded the EP “Necromantic Love Songs” (1993) only a few months later, which became a cult classic.
ANTROPOMORPHIA continuously cemented their status as underground icons with a string of acclaimed releases. The debut full-length “Pure” (1998) was followed by the albums “Evangelivm Nekromantia” (2012), “Rites ov Perversion “(2014), “Sermon ov Wrath” (2017), and “Merciless Savagery” (2019).
Their uncompromising approach and ever expanding vortex of musical textures that included a growing influx of black metal elements into ANTROPOMORPHIA‘s musical and visual DNA, the Dutch have accepted invitations by the most relevant festivals and performed at Brutal Assault, In Flammen Open Air, Summer Breeze, Motocultor, Netherlands Deathfest, Roadburn Festival, and Eindhoven Metal Meeting among many more live events.
Now ANTROPOMORPHIA are returning with “Devoid of Light” to show the world that they are still hungry to push the limits of both their own band and the death metal scene to new frontiers. Crank the volume up to 10 and let this album rip!
Band: AntropomorphiA
Title: Devoid of Light
Style: Death Metal
Release date: May 16, 2025
Label: Testimony Records
Review impact date: March 24, 2025
Line-up
Ferry Damen – vocals, guitar
Jeroen Pleunis – bass
Marco Stubbe – drums
Jos van den Brand – guitar
Recording & Mix by Marco Stubbe at Aftermath Studio, Kaatsheuvel (NL)
Further recording by Daan Janzing at Pitchfork Studio, Tilburg (NL)
Mastering by Dan Swanö at Unisound, Osterby (DE)Cover artwork by Richard Schouten
Layout by Ferry Damen
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Formats
“Devoid of Light” will be available as a Digipak CD, as a black vinyl LP, and as a gold & purple vinyl LP.
Links
www.devoidoflight.com
www.facebook.com/antropomorphia
www.instagram.com/antropomorphiaofficial