Blindfolded And Led To The Woods announce new album ‘Rejecting Obliteration’

February 24, 2023 James Weaver

BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS have announced a new album!

Titled Rejecting Obliteration, the upcoming album from the New Zealand progressive death metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Nightmare Withdrawals, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Prosthetic Records.

Upon completing the recording of Rejecting Obliteration, the band sought the mixing expertise of Samuel K Sproull in Melbourne, Australia before handing mastering duties to Grammy Award winner Alan Douches at West West Side Music. The results of the technical team behind the album led to a production sound that retains the more barbarous aspects of the band’s sound and breathes life into the group’s ever growing progressive inclinations. Rejecting Obliteration’s cover art neatly ties together the core theme of cyclical trauma thanks to a commissioned piece from Eliran Kantor [THY ART IS MURDER, PSYCROPTIC, ARCHSPIRE etc].

Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist/vocalist Stuart Henley-Minchington says, “exposing our most vulnerable selves and exploring harrowing territory both musically and lyrically, we created an album with a certain catharsis to it that we feel is a testament to our resilient nature. Inspired by some of the most personal challenges of our lives and the events that shaped us since the release of our previous album Nightmare Withdrawals, Rejecting Obliteration stands as a defiant body of music bursting with a philosophy and energy that we can all overcome whatever stands in our path toward healing.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Methlehem. Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, vocalist Stace Fifield says, “our first offering from Rejecting Obliteration comes in the form Methlehem. The lyrics meander the dimly-lit corridors of religious fanaticism, shining a spotlight on the stark similarities that can be drawn between drug addicts and those who devote their lives to their deity. The church is a cartel and billions are hooked on their premium product. Visually, we teamed up with award-winning director Amber Beaton to direct a video that would stitch the lyrics to the music, conjuring the dark and claustrophobic dimension that the song aggressively commands.”

Watch the official music video for Methlehem here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List:

1. Monolith
2. Methlehem
3. Hallucinative Terror
4. Rejecting Obliteration
5. Wraith
6. Cicada
7. Funeral Smiles
8. The Waves
9. Hands of Contrition
10. Caustic Burns