BLOODBATH is Stockholm’s shadiest death cult whose members are drawn from metal luminaries such as Paradise Lost, Katatonia, Opeth and Craft. They have released their new single “Bloodicide“, the first taste of their forthcoming album The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn.
Due for release on 26th October 2018 via Peaceville, The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn is available to pre-order HERE.
“Bloodicide” features a full house of British death metal guest stars, with Jeff Walker (Carcass) vocalist Karl Willetts ( Bolt Thrower/Memoriam) and John Walker (Cancer) all lending their larynxes to the madness.
Check out the lyric video for “Bloodicide” below:
The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn Track-Listing
1: Fleischmann
2: Bloodicide
3: Wayward Samaritan
4: Levitator
5: Deader
6: March Of The Crucifiers
7: Morbid Antichrist
8: Warhead Ritual
9: Only the Dead Survive
10:Chainsaw Lullaby
Bloodbath will be playing live in Europe in November and December as they join forces with Kreator, Dimmu Borgir & Hatebreed on the European Apocalypse tour.
European Apocalypse tour dates:
November 30, 2018 NL – Tilburg, O13
December 01, 2018 DE – Hamburg, Sporthalle
December 02, 2018 DE – Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle
December 03, 2018 FR – Paris, L‘Olympia
December 04, 2018 BE – Brussels, AB
December 06, 2018 IT – Milano, Alcatraz
December 07, 2018 DE – Munich, Zenith
December 08, 2018 DE – Ludwigsburg, MHP Arena
December 09, 2018 CZ – Prague, Forum Karlin
December 10, 2018 CH – Zurich, Halle 622
December 12, 2018 AT – Vienna, Gasometer
December 13, 2018 PL – Warsaw, Kolo Hall
December 14, 2018 DE – Leipzig, Haus Auensee
December 15, 2018 DE – Dusseldorf, Mitsubishi Electric Halle
The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn is a new slab of old-school, HM-2 driven blackness, recorded by Bloodbath and Karl Daniel Liden, at Ghost Ward, City Of Glass & Tri-Lamb Studios, and is the second with Old Nick on vocals. If their previous Grand Morbid Funeral was a thick spray of deathly noise, The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn is the rotten, fetid state of the world and our inevitable doom that is casting a looming shadow over proceedings. With world leaders threatening nuclear annihilation in 140 characters over social media, capitalism tearing itself apart, a willful march into a surveillance state via handy pocket spying devices, a shifting climate that appears to literally be trying to kill us, it’s all fueled Bloodbath’s newest ode to filth.
BLOODBATH are:
“Old Nick” Holmes – vocals
Anders “Blakkheim” Nyström – guitar
Jonas “Lord Seth” Renkse – bass
Joakim Karlsson – guitar
Martin “Axe” Axenrot – drums