Downfall Of Mankind announce new album ‘Purgatory’

May 11, 2024 James Weaver

DOWNFALL OF MANKIND have announced a new album!

Titled Purgatory, the upcoming album from the Portuguese deathcore band is the follow-up to 2022’s Vile Birth, and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via their new home at Seek & Strike.

The upcoming album was co-produced by Matthew K. Heafy [TRIVIUM] with Heafy performing on the title track, as well as making an appearance in its video. He comments, “DOWNFALL OF MANKIND will be juggernauts of the heavy music scene in no time. Mark my words.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, DOWNFALL OF MANKIND have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; the title track Purgatory.

Speaking about the new song, and the upcoming album, the band says, “excitement isn’t enough to describe how big signing this deal was for us. The fact that our work is seen and recognized by Seek & Strike is a huge step in our career. Their roster is nothing short of incredible and we were very interested from the way they approached us and set goals. They really put the right mindset into what we want to achieve and we as a band feel extremely supported.

We felt that Purgatory was a perfect introduction to the new album, due to the fact that it features most of the new elements added to our sound (clean vocals, more melody, hooks, etc), while keeping the same brutality and rawness that our fans are accustomed to hearing. This song is about paranoia. How the voices inside your head won’t stop and how it consumes you from the inside in a very brutal way. You will find that the main theme of this album, lyrics wise, is all connected to aspects of the overall human psyche. It’s something that all of us are interested in and I believe the lyrics were written perfectly to translate that. The video’s theme is based around frenetic energy and how people harness/handle it.

We already consider our music very interesting and diverse, but we wanted to push ourselves even more this time. That’s how it should be. We are all very creative and have wide varieties of influences. The writing process of this new record also had a very strong influence from Matthew Heafy, bringing different elements to the table, such as incorporating different instruments from around the world. It really brought a different essence into this record and we couldn’t be more excited for the world to hear it.

Our sound is always evolving and we strive to keep it diverse and exciting. We have groove, lots of melody, heavy breakdowns, gnarly vocals, complex song structures, orchestral sections, etc. What sets us apart from the rest is the fact that we are able to take that bevy of influences and make it absolutely beautiful and unique, without being overwhelming. There’s a moment for everything, so it’s not an amalgamation of things. Think of it as a 10K puzzle. Scrambled it might not make sense, but when you assemble everything and see the picture as it is intended, it’s just amazing and satisfying. We’re not reinventing the genre, but we certainly think we offer something different and our sound will resonate across the world!”

Watch the official music video for Purgatory here: