Mastiff announce new album ‘Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth’

June 10, 2021 James Weaver

MASTIFF have announced a new album!

Titled Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth, the upcoming album from the Hull-based blackened sludge metal band is the follow-up to 2019’s Plague and is scheduled to be released in September this year, making their label debut at new home eOne Heavy.

Speaking about signing with eOne, the band says, “it still feels like some kind of fever-dream that we’re working with eOne on our new record. Collectively, some of our favourite bands of all time have been part of this label, so it’s absolutely mind-blowing that we might be spoken of in the same breath as them. Since conversations first began with the team, they’ve been so supportive and enthusiastic about our grotty little band and the album we’ve made. We felt pretty sure that we’d made something quite special this time around and knowing that people with long and illustrious histories in the metal industry felt the same way – not to mention people who’ve worked with some of the genre’s biggest and best – it’s a pretty spectacular vote of confidence for five miserable miscreants from Hull.”

The upcoming album was crafted in just five days at No Studio with producer Joe Clayton [PIJN, WREN, LEECHED] and will be the band’s third full-length effort. Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; Endless. The new music video was first premiered via Decibel Magazine.

Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, the band adds, “Endless is one of the earlier songs we wrote for the new record. It feels in a way like a microcosm of the whole album, in that it’s all over the place sonically yet somehow hangs together coherently. It goes from this shockingly anthemic – if not quite melodic – blackened opening, through a sinister chuggy bridge, and then ends in a chaotic, ‘90s-CONVERGE-breakdown. Lyrically, it’s a bit of a meditation on the helplessness that comes when a human being becomes an emotional bargaining chip in a broken-down relationship. Typical jolly MASTIFF fare, really. We’re so disgustingly happy with how the video turned out too. Our old mate and Hull native Stew Baxter helped us put together a grimy, raw promo that feels in part a direct homage to some of the early-‘00s metalcore videos that inspired us so much back in the day, and part like a CCTV feed catching a crime against music on tape.”

Watch the official music video for Endless here:

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

Track List:

1. The Hiss
2. Fail
3. Repulse
4. Midnight Creeper
5. Beige Sabbath
6. Futile
7. Endless
8. Scalped And Salted
9. Lung Rust

And that’s not all from the MASTIFF camp! The band have announced a short of run of UK tour dates with fellow countrymen CALLIGRAM for October this year.

Tour dates are as follows:

10/26/2021 The Anvil – Bournemouth, UK
10/27/2021 Black Heart – London, UK
10/28/2021 Satan’s Hollow – Manchester, UK
10/29/2021 Opium – Edinburgh, UK
10/30/2021 SOAR – Nottingham, UK
10/31/2021 Record Junkee – Sheffield, UK