Viscera announce new album ‘Hunting Season’
VISCERA have announced a new album!
The UK deathcore outfit have announced their new album, Hunting Season, which is scheduled for release on 12th February via Unique Leader Records. The upcoming album is the follow-up to 2023’s Carcinogenesis.
Speaking about the upcoming album, the band shares, “Hunting Season is our most complete record to date and written for the live setting. We set out to make an album that would set the standard for what we want to build on with future offerings, one that would define our sound as a band. Our collective influences are far more prominent on this record than on our previous two albums. This is a record that will stand the test of time as a top tier metal, breaking the glass ceiling of sub-genre restrictions. Something definitive.”
The album features guest appearances from Jesse Leach (KILLSWITCH ENGAGE), Matt Heafy (TRIVIUM), Joe Bad (FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY/SPITTING GLASS), Andreas Bjulver (CABAL), Alan Grnja (DISTANT) and John Centorrino (DIRT HELMET, ex-CRYSTAL LAKE).
Speaking about the album’s themes, the band explains, “the album’s central theme is fear and misinformation. The ‘Hivemind’ can be easily antagonised as a group and attack anything near, regardless of its intention. We used Hornet imagery to represent this throughout the artwork (art by Shindy Reehal of Shindy Design). The album is about fear, tribalism, social imbalance, violence and how the four intertwine to potent effect on our society. Hunting Season as a titular theme refers to how easily the masses can be swayed with false information or an idea that catches a spark. A lot of the songs are about internal struggles to fit into an ever changing social ‘hive’ where our identities are becoming more and more complex/fragile. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES. NO ONE IS SAFE. HUNTING SEASON.”
Alongside the announcement, the band have released a new music video for Merciless By Nature, the first single to be lifted from the forthcoming record.
Speaking about the new single, the band says, “misinformation, cancel culture and hedonism. This is about the dangers of tribalism. How it can become the driving force behind all we think and say, without thought for repercussions. It has a similar sort of feel to material off our debut record Obsidian in places, but with a rawer edge.”
Watch the official music video for Merciless By Nature here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- Delilah II: The Eternal Flame
- In The Belly Of The Beast (feat. Jesse Leach)
- Horror Has A Face
- Death’s Kiss
- Killbox
- The Lie That Sets You Free (feat. Matt Heafy)
- Hivemind (feat. Joe Bad)
- Merciless By Nature
- Hunting Season (feat. Alan Grnja & Andreas Bjulver)
- Moongazer (feat. John Centorrino)
Hunting Season is set for release on 12th February via Unique Leader Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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