{"id":94118,"date":"2022-06-30T08:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=94118"},"modified":"2022-06-30T08:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:56:57","slug":"bloodbath-new-album-survival-of-the-sickest-announced-drop-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=94118","title":{"rendered":"BLOODBATH &#8211; New Album &#8220;Survival Of The Sickest&#8221; Announced, Drop New Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The sixth full-length album from <strong>BLOODBATH<\/strong>, Sweden&#8217;s undisputed masters of old school death metal, will be unleashed on September 9, 2022 via <strong>Napalm Records<\/strong>. This is death metal at its ugly best: vicious, unrelenting and irrevocably sworn to the black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The world is in flames, and Survival of the Sickest, produced by Bloodbath and co-produced and mixed by <strong>Lawrence Mackrory<\/strong> at Rorysound Studios, offers no respite from the horrors of reality. Instead, with the addition of new guitarist Tomas &#8216;Plytet&#8217; \u00c5kvik (Lik) onboard, Bloodbath&#8217;s latest and greatest album gleefully confronts the slavering ghoul lurking in the shadows, and treats him to ten songs of ripping death metal frenzy. Alongside Bloodbath&#8217;s official alumni, <em>Survival of the Sickest<\/em> boasts a smattering of irresistible cameos from the great, good and ghoulish of the metal underground, including <strong>Barney Greenway<\/strong> (Napalm Death), <strong>Luc Lemay<\/strong> (Gorguts) and <strong>Marc Grewe<\/strong> (Morgoth).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BLOODBATH - Zombie Inferno (Official Video) | Napalm Records\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QlDMQZYNoFU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">From the thuggish brain-smash of opener &#8220;Zombie Inferno&#8221; to the bleak, obsidian ooze of closer &#8220;No God Before Me&#8221;, <em>Survival of the Sickest<\/em> is the sound of a great band in blistering form. In contrast with <em>The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn<\/em>, which borrowed heavily from the blackened end of the death metal world, the new Bloodbath goes straight for the jugular in true old school fashion. With strong echoes of everything from Morbid Angel and Death to Deicide and Obituary, songs like the rampaging &#8220;Putrefying Corpse,&#8221; the disgustingly slow and heavy &#8220;Dead Parade,&#8221; and the deliciously twisted &#8220;Tales Of Melting Flesh&#8221; breathe fresh fire into an arcane, perpetually rotting formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Formed by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nystr\u00f6m (both of Katatonia), Mikael \u00c5kerfeldt (Opeth) and Dan Swan\u00f6 (Edge Of Sanity) in 1998, Bloodbath devoted themselves to resurrecting the increasingly forgotten art of pure death metal. In 2014, they unveiled a new frontman \u2013 legendary Paradise Lost vocalist Nick Holmes, now redubbed Old Nick \u2013 and yet another macabre musical evolution. With a line-up, the only way to go was grim. On <em>Survival of the Sickest<\/em>, Bloodbath evoke their most horrifying sonic scenarios to date, from the death-by-munching nightmare of &#8220;Malignant Maggot Therapy,&#8221; to the murderous nihilism of &#8220;Affliction Of Extinction.&#8221; A glorious comeback from a legendarily wicked musical force, <em>Survival of the Sickest<\/em> provides yet more proof that Bloodbath are the kings of the old school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Bloodbath add: &#8220;If there was a declaration of goods attached to this album, it would say Florida death metal exported from Sweden.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Survival of the Sickest<\/em> track listing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">01. Zombie Inferno<br \/>02. Putrefying Corpse<br \/>03. Dead Parade<br \/>04. Malignant Maggot Therapy<br \/>05. Carved<br \/>06. Born Infernal<br \/>07. To Die<br \/>08. Affliction of Extinction<br \/>09. Tales of Melting Flesh<br \/>10. Environcide<br \/>11. No God Before Me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bloodbathband\">Bloodbath | Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth full-length album from BLOODBATH, Sweden&#8217;s undisputed masters of old school death metal, will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94122,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94118\/revisions\/94122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}