End Reign announce debut album ‘The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay’

END REIGN have announced their debut album!

Titled The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay, the upcoming album from the hardcore/crossover band (featuring members of INTEGRITY, BLOODLET, MISERY INDEX and ALL OUT WAR) is their debut full-length album, and is scheduled to be released in July this year, via Relapse Records.

Recorded over a year at Landmine Studios with Len Carmichael at the helm, the band’s full-length debut features vocal cameos from band mastermind Domenic Romeo’s longtime collaborator and INTEGRITY bandmate Dwid Hellion, FULL OF HELL’s Dylan Walker and Ed Ka-Spel from avant-rock fabulons THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS.

Speaking about the debut album, Romeo says, “inspired by the post-apocalyptic feeling my surroundings provided at the time during lockdowns (the roads were empty…no one was outside…it was a lot like the movie Last Man On Earth) I wanted to create a band whose aesthetic reflected that isolation and desolation. That’s how END REIGN was born. This album is like riding a rollercoaster in a theme park based on all the extreme music I’ve enjoyed throughout my life. I hope that any fans of our musical family tree will enjoy the ride as much as we did.” 

Alongside the announcement of the debut album, END REIGN have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming debut; Desolate Fog. The new music video was directed by Jeffrey Sisson [EXHUMED, GRUESOME].

Speaking about the new song, Romeo says, “this song was written with the intention of being the album opener. The whole first part before the vocals come in was inspired by the final scene in Tales From The Crypt (1972). The part where the crypt keeper tells his entourage that ‘they are here for allll eternity’ before they fall into the abyss one by one. The intro also pays homage to my favorite OVERCAST song Begging For Indifference before launching into a death/black metal ride that falls off the track and bursts into flames….only to fall off again and burst into even more flames….oof. I was listening to MAYHEM‘s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas a lot when I wrote this, it’s pretty evident in some of the riffing. I had to stop though…that record gives me the creeps.”

Watch the official music video for Desolate Fog here:

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

Track List: 

1. Desolate Fog
2. Chaos Masked As Order
3. The Hunger
4. Divine Abysmal End
5. Serpent Messiah
6. House Of Thieves
7. Giving Life To Tragedy
8. Chasing Divinity
9. When Death Comes Crawling
10. The Night Creeps Upon Me

The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay is set for release on July 14th via Relapse Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

For more information on END REIGN like their official page on Facebook.