Ripped To Shreds announce new album ‘Sanshi’
RIPPED TO SHREDS have announced a new album!
Titled Sanshi, the upcoming album from the American death metal band is the follow-up to 2022’s 劇變 (Jubian), and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Relapse Records.
Conceptually, Sanshi sees the band dig into a morbid fixation on death and the afterlife in the context of traditional Chinese folklore. Tracks like the lead single Perverting The Funeral Rites, Stripped For The Dead is a song inspired by obscure funeral rites in Taiwan, wherein exotic dancers perform lithe rituals for living and dead alike. Elsewhere, Force Fed delves into the legend of Meng Po’s Elixir of Forgetfulness, which when drunk by the dead wipes their memories clean before they are reborn into their next incarnation. Living In Effigy was inspired by real life tales of photographers traversing remote rural China, taking funeral portraits of the elderly who died in solitude.
Alongside the announcement of the new album, RIPPED TO SHREDS have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Perverting The Funeral Rites, Stripping For The Dead.
Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, frontman Andrew Lee says, “we wanted to come out of the gates swinging with our most morbid and grinding material yet. Perverting… showcases our new live approach with constant vocal and solo tradeoffs, and we shot the video in Taiwan with a real Daoist priest as a natural extension of RTS‘ narrative approach to songwriting.”
Watch the official music video for Perverting The Funeral Rites, Stripping For The Dead here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- Into the Court Of Yanluowang
- Force Fed
- 燒冥紙 (Sacrificial Fire)
- 孽鏡臺 (Visions Of Sin, Mirror Of Darkness)
- Feast Of The Deceased
- Horrendous Corpse Resurrection
- Living in Effigy
- 冥婚 (Corpse Betrothal)
- Cultivating Towards Ascension
- Perverting The Funeral Rites, Stripping For The Dead
Sanshi is set for release on September 27th via Relapse Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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