Ingested announce new album ‘Denigration’

INGESTED have announced their brand new album, Denigration!

Set for release on May 8th via Metal Blade Records, the upcoming album from the Manchester-based death metal band is the follow-up to 2024’s The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams. The album intends to introduce a new era for the group, with a refreshed lineup and renewed focus.

Speaking about the new material, the band comments, “musically, it’s us pulling every thread we’ve laid down over the years, slam, groove, melody, blackened dissonance, and twisting it into something that feels like a definitive statement rather than a reset. This is the sound of being dragged through the dirt and refusing to stay there.”

Alongside the announcement, the band have released the album’s lead single, Merciless Reflection, complete with an official music video.

Discussing the single specifically, the band says, “Merciless Reflection lives inside the worst room in your head. The lyrics are a spiral of intrusive thoughts, religious disillusion, and self-loathing, that feeling of turning over the same ‘barbaric cycles’ until you don’t know if you’re chasing salvation or just feeding the disease. Faith is no comfort here; it’s another blade. The narrator is banished, molded into ‘nothing but a big mistake,’ picking through the wreckage of belief and realizing redemption was never guaranteed in the first place.

Musically, this is a deliberate love letter to the era that formed us: straight-up, no-bullshit slam. It’s primitive in all the right ways, knuckle-dragging riffs, caveman groove, sections built for bodies hitting the floor, but framed with the tightness and production we’ve grown into. Bringing in D from PEELINGFLESH to deliver those disgusting, gurgling vocals was about honoring the sound we grew up on and planting our flag in it now. If you’ve ever wanted that old INGESTED ugliness back, this is us saying we never lost it, we just learned how to aim it.”

Watch the official music video for Merciless Reflection here:

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

Track List: 

1. Dragged Apart (feat. Skyler Conder of CELL)
2. Merciless Reflection (feat. Damonteal Harris of PEELINGFLESH)
3. Watch You Fold (feat. John Gallagher of DYING FETUS)
4. Stitch By Stitch
5. We Are All Inherently Evil
6. Dredge The Dark (feat. Kyle Medina of BODYSNATCHER)
7. Oaths Betrayed
8. Beaten Beyond the Veil
9. Steel Toe Truth
10. Cold Sun

Denigration is set for release on May 8th via Metal Blade Records. Pre‑orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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