Alluvial announce new album ‘Sarcoma’

March 14, 2021 James Weaver

ALLUVIAL have announced a new album!

Titled Sarcoma, the upcoming album from the progressive death metal band is their brand new full-length album and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Nuclear Blast Records.

“Sarcoma is a type of cancer that grows from connective tissue in the body,” says guitarist Wes Hauch. “At the end of working on everything, Kevin [Muller, vocals] pinpointed that each song on the record was about the different perils that happen at the hand of one man to another. These perils live in our connections to one another, so Sarcoma became an apt title.”

After writing and producing demos at home, the band cut guitars, bass, and vocals with engineer John Douglass [MR. BUNGLE, AMON AMARTH] in Atlanta.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album, Ulysses. “I was always in trouble in my small hometown,” Hauch says. “After going to a county jail, I joined the military and took orders as an Equipment Operator bound for the US Naval Mobile Construction Battalions. The enlisted side of the military are all misfits of one kind or another. Because of this, it’s really a continuation of high school. The military continued raising us, for better or worse. In 2005, I deployed to Iraq and convoyed throughout Baghdad for seven months. If you were in Iraq from 03 to 08, it was generally pretty bad. Because of that, I wouldn’t call my experience in Iraq “unique,” it was just a hot time over there. If you convoyed, you were gonna get shot at, and you were gonna deal with IED’s. If you were in a camp, you were gonna get mortared. If you were infantry and you were kicking down doors, god bless you, you were gonna have it the worst out of anyone. Ulysses is a glossary of my hindsight on that experience.”

Watch the official music video for Ulysses here: