Swedish old-school death metal unit Grand Cadaver, featuring current and former members of Dark Tranquillity, The Halo Effect, Tiamat, Novarupta, and Katatonia, return with their most explosive material yet: the new EP The Rot Beneath, set to be released on August 15 via Majestic Mountain Records. The release will be available on vinyl, alongside a limited reissue of their acclaimed 2021 debut full-length, Into the Maw of Death. Pre-orders will be announced soon.
Today, Grand Cadaver share the crushing title track via Invisible Oranges who had this to say: “The streamlined, razorblade-encrusted style of death metal on ‘The Rot Beneath’ relies on the ear for melody Grand Cadaver’s core members have honed for four decades… Grand Cadaver aren’t masquerading that’s the case.”
Listen to “The Rot Beneath” here.
The band comments: “When you look at the state of the world today, it’s difficult not to feel despair. We see madness, death, war, corruption and polarisation. And it makes you think — what are we if not the cause of the problem? What are we but the rot beneath? This is the anthem to mankind’s demise.”
Featuring some of Sweden’s most seasoned metal musicians, namely Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity, The Halo Effect), Stefan Lagergren (ex-Treblinka/Tiamat), Alex Stjernfeldt (Novarupta, CHILD), Christian Jansson (Pagandom, Dark Tranquillity), and Daniel Liljekvist (ex-Katatonia, Disrupted), Grand Cadaver have carved a reputation for delivering death metal with no gimmicks, no polish, just raw power.
From their debut EP Madness Comes (recorded in just three days and charting at #9 in Sweden), to their crushing LP Into the Maw of Death, and their doom-laced 2023 follow-up Deities of Deathlike Sleep, the band has continuously pushed their sound into darker and heavier territory.
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