Massacre announce new album ‘Resurgence’
MASSACRE have announced a brand new album!
The new album, titled Resurgence, is the Floridian death metal band’s fourth full-length effort and their first release in seven years. The highly-anticipated album is set for release in October this year via Nuclear Blast Records.
About the album, vocalist Kam Lee states, “It’s all about Lovecraft isn’t it. Honesty though, aesthetically MASSACRE needed two main things to return to be proper. A) The return to the core roots of O.S.D.M. (Old School Death Metal) style death metal that late 80’s, early 90’s sound. Musically the record has to retain that nostalgic retro style. B) To return to the lyrical aesthetics laden with influences heavily drawn from the stories and fictional mythos that is all Lovecraftian.”
Alongside the album announcement, MASSACRE have also released the first single from the album; The Innsmouth Strain.
Carrying on about the new single, “The Innsmouth Strain is heavily influenced by the H.P. Lovecraft story The Shadow Over Innsmouth, yet has my own twisted take on transmutation body horror aspects thrown in. I sort of lyrically give it a David Cronenberg /Junji Ito type spin on a Lovecraft fiction. So lyrically it is basically it’s about body horror of aquatic transmutation. Any deeper meaning then that is just speculative, but could simply be metaphor for our world’s current situation with the pandemic and other threats of the spreading of viral infection. Musically it’s just proper O.S.D.M. the way it’s meant to be played and properly represented by MASSACRE.”
Listen to The Inssmouth Strain here:
You can also view both the track list and album artwork below:
Track list:
1. Eldritch Prophecy
2. Ruins Of R’lyeh
3. The Innsmouth Strain
4. Whisperer In Darkness
5. Book Of The Dead
6. Into The Far-Off Void
7. Servants Of Discord
8. Fate Of The Elder Gods
9. Spawn Of The Succubus
10. Return Of The Corpse Grinder
Resurgence is set for release October 22nd via Nuclear Blast. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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