Ripped To Shreds announce new album ‘劇變 (Jubian)’
RIPPED TO SHREDS have announced a new album!
Titled 劇變 (Jubian), the upcoming album from the Bay Area-based death metal band is the follow-up to 2020’s 亂 (Luan), and is scheduled to be released in October this year, marking their label debut via Relapse Records.
The upcoming album was recorded and mixed by band leader Andrew Lee in his home studio and mastered by Damian Herring at Subterranean Watchtower. The upcoming album’s artwork was rendered by Chinese artist Guang Yang, who also painted the cover of the last RIPPED TO SHREDS album. The statue on the cover is Mazu, the Taiwanese sea goddess. The setting of the painting was inspired by several of the local temples Lee has visited in Taiwan. “I felt like it was important to have something standing in for Chinese people,” Lee says.
The cultural context and impact of RIPPED TO SHREDS as a Taiwanese-American band cannot be understated; Lee declares that a driving force behind RIPPED TO SHREDS has been “to increase the visibility of ABCs [American-born Chinese] in extreme metal by being very blatantly Chinese.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; Reek Of Burning Freedom. Speaking about the new song, Lee says it is “‘an anti-war song’ that incites to remind its discerning listers of the the United States’ ‘indiscriminate bombing’ campaign waged on North Korea during the Korean War.”
Watch the official music video for Reek Of Burning Freedom here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- Violent Compulsion For Conquest
- Split Apart By Five Chariots
- 獨孤九劍 日月神教第三節 (In Solitude – Sun Moon Holy Cult Pt 3)
- Harmonious Impiety
- 漢奸 (Race Traitor)
- Reek Of Burning Freedom
- Peregrination To The Unborn Eternal Mother
- Scripture Containing The Supreme Internal Energy Arts That Render the Practitioner Invincible Throughout The Martial Realm
劇變 (Jubian) is set for release on October 14th via Relapse Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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