Memoriam announce new album ‘To The End’

MEMORIAM have announced a new album!

Titled To The End, the upcoming album from the British death metal band is the follow-up to 2018’s Requiem For Mankind and is scheduled to be released in March this year, via Reaper Entertainment.

Marking the beginning of a second trilogy of albums, the upcoming album serves as something of a prologue to the first three MEMORIAM albums. The four-piece returned to producer, Russ Russell, for the recording of To The End. For the first time, the band demoed the songs and entered the studio with a new level of preparedness. Coupled with their close relationship with Russell, this created an environment that allowed for greater experimentation. From the earliest days of the band, they had their eye on the art Dan Seagrave [BENEDICTION, DISMEMBER, HYPOCRISY, SUFFOCATION etc] as an accompaniment to their music. Having created the artwork for the first three MEMORIAM albums, he has also created the cover for To The End.

Speaking about the upcoming album, the band says, “we are really chuffed to be collaborating with Dan, his vision and interpretation of ideas are totally unique and its fantastic to be involved in the creative process with him – seeing the ideas that we have transformed into stunning images that we are proud to have as artwork for our albums. His style is second to none, so much so that using any other artist at this point would seem like a compromise; his attention to detail is incredible. To The End is the first album of this trilogy and features the events that led up to the scenes depicted on our first album, For the Fallen. The art shows the king leading his troops into the last battle in which he was killed. It looks bloody killer.”

Album artwork artist Dan Seagrave adds, “in this moment we’re capturing the dawn of the onslaught of the city; visible from the industrial outskirts, as the forces descend with a pincer movement into the valley, spreading destruction towards their goal. The king character to me at this stage has become something of a creature – beyond human. There is an elemental shift in its DNA and a detachment of its ordinary senses. Held together by earthly materials, I feel its presence brings with it a surrealistic sickness that affects the immediate environment and those who tread within its boundaries.

My aesthetic look of this was to combine the retro military tech of the early 20th century with the memory of renaissance times art. For example, tanks that have bas relief sculpture, and inventions such as the flying wingsuit – a metallic armoured vehicle contraption worn by the foreground figure. There’s less of a literal darkness in the depiction. Here there seems to be a permeating flow of dust particles, like a concocting mist of specular ice and grey concrete. The dawn of a bright day reacting with it, both illuminating and deadly.”

To The End is set for release on March 26th via Reaper Entertainment. Pre-orders will be available soon.

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