Swedish old-school death metal behemoth 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 are available at this location.
Today, the band unveils a brand new track, “Darkened Apathy,” now premiering via No Clean Singing, who describe it as: “Grand Cadaver continue depressing their accelerator. The drums kick into a gallop; tremolo’d riffing creates a vicious sonic swarm that rabidly writhes as it desperately ascends and dismally descends; the vocals reach new fever pitches of serrated-edge ferocity; a lead guitar wails overhead.”
Listen to “Darkened Apathy” here!
The band had this to say: “The world is burning, and the people set it alight with indifference and apathy. A death metal protest song, where the wise are silenced and the unconcerned are in control.”
If you missed it, listen to lead single ‘The Rot Beneath’ at this location.
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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https://majesticmountainrecords.bandcamp.com
https://grandcadaver.com
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