North Carolinas hartes Groove Death Metal Outfit WRETCHED kehrt am 17. Oktober mit dem Album “Decay“ zurück ins Rampenlicht, nachdem ihr letztes Album “Cannibal“ aus dem Jahr 2014 datiert. Mit dem 2023 wieder zur Band gestoßenen Fronter Billy Powers hat die Band rund zwei Jahre an dem neuen Konzeptalbum gearbeitet, das als gedanklicher Vorläufer zum 2010 veröffentlichten “ Beyond The Gate“ verstanden werden soll.

Billy Powers erklärt:

„Decay is 100% a concept album. Beyond The Gate had an element this record shares, the talisman. I always knew there was more story there and was very excited to join up with the guys again to put that in motion. The first track I wrote was ‚The Golden Tide.‘ I had no idea where I was going to take the story connection to Beyond The Gate until I typed the first line of the song. ‚They began in the dark.‘ After that, the lyrics poured out of my mind and by the end of it I realized that this story takes place many years before the content of Beyond The Gate.“

Schlagzeuger Marshall Wieczorek fügt hinzu:

We’ve had a lot of time to grow and reflect in the time between our last album and Decay. WRETCHED is doing what WRETCHED always does, and that’s exploring our environment and leaving room for ourselves to try different things. To sum things up, the new album is dynamic. We go here, we go there, we go everywhere. There is no shortage of groove, heaviness, speed, melodicism, prettiness, and sadness.“

Das Video zum Titeltrack seht ihr hier

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Decay Trackliste:

01. Decay
02. Malus Incarnate
03. The Royal Body
04. The Crimson Sky
05. Radiance
06. Clairvoyance
07. The Mortal Line
08. Behind the Glass
09. Lights
10. The Golden Tide
11. Blackout
12. The Golden Skyway

Photo Credit: Dania Ramos