“Origin” is the title of ANTROPOFAGUS’ long-awaited fourth studio album. The Italian brutal death metal quartet will have the album released via Agonia Records on October 28th. A new single and music video is to follow in September.
Featuring ten new compositions, “Origin” was recorded, engineered and mixed at MK2 Recording Studio by the band’s drummer, Davide Billia (ex-HOUR OF PENANCE). The cover artwork and layout was designed by Stefano Mattioni. The album features guest appearances from Mick Montaguti (ELECTROCUTION), Matt Sotelo (DECREPIT BIRTH) and Dallas Toler-Wade (NARCOTIC WASTELAND, ex-NILE).
ANTROPOFAGUS plays complex, technical and brutal death metal, and made its first steps onto the scene in the late nineties. Aside from said Davide Billa on drums, the album comprises new vocalist Paolo Chiti, long-running guitarist and co-founder Francesco ‘Meatgrinder’ Montesanti and bassist Jacopo Rossi (Dark Lunacy).
Francesco Montesanti sees “Origin” as the band’s most complete album to date. “I’m really satisfied with the work in its entirety; from the structure of the album, to the production, which was curated by Davide Billia at MK2 studios. While the pandemic did cause physical limitations, it also allowed us the time to work at our own pace, and while arranging the tracks we reached a level far superior to anything we’ve done before”.
Debuting vocalist and lyricist Paolo Chiti adds: “I was inspired by many different sources for the lyrics on this album. From Lovecraft’s omnipresent Necronomicon, through Sumerian demonology, Egyptian mythology and classic films such as the Exorcist or Hellraiser to those more modern like the Void, or the series Stranger Things. Wherever I found some darkness I fed on that darkness for my lyrics and I’m very pleased with the results.”
Tracklisting:
1. Origin
2. Downward the Spiral
3. While Nothingness Slithers
4. Oppressed Suffering
5. The Slaver Ascension
6. Of Prosperity and Punishment
7. Ia Anth Etbrae Gagh
8. Hymns of Acrimony
9. Passage of Annulment
10. Chapter of not letting the body perish (M.O.R.T.E. pt2)
