May 31, 2024 sees Brazilian Death Metal extremes, THE TROOPS OF DOOM, unleash their much-awaited, new studio album “A Mass To The Grotesque” via Alma Mater Records, the Portuguese label run by MOONSPELL singer Fernando Ribeiro! The band has dropped an official video for its new single, “Dawn Of Mephisto”, directed by André Moraes and Ana Carol
While Mille Petrozza of KREATOR recently said: “The record sounds amazing! Old school as f*ck! Taking me back to the glory days of Brazilian metal. This album will crush!”, Øystein G. Brun (BORKNAGAR) states: “Wow, this one hits me hard and drags me straight back to the early 90′, to my youth, when Death Metal still was fresh, wild and fierce! Listen and learn kids, this is how music in the name of the horns are done!”
“Imagine a Death Metal world unaltered and pure since the 1990’s, a musical style so dear to the fans, that time, business and trend, could never hurt”, Death Metal fan Fernando Ribeiro recommends: “Go back to the glorious time where Death Metal reigned supreme, thanks to some bands, artists, studios and an untameable will of progressing and delivering extreme music to its finest shape, like occult jewellery, filigree , brutal yet elegant in its overwhelming task of splitting your ears. The new TROOPS OF DOOM album ‘A Mass To The Grotesque’, which Alma Mater Records is brutally proud to present, rescues this long forgotten Death Metal class. They are the flag carriers of the authentic Morrisound sound (the legendary Florida studio where this album was mixed and mastered) and they leave no stones unturned on this one. Brace yourself for the best and most authentic Death Metal album in ages!”
The band comments on the song: “We chose ‘Dawn Of Mephisto’ as our second single because it’s a song that already brings greater musical complexity, while remaining true to the rawness and ferocity of 80s metal. We believe that this track, together with our first single ‘Chapels Of The Unhoy”, provides a great summary of what fans can expect from this new album, still with many nuances and surprises, of course.
The lyrics of ‘Dawn Of Mephisto’ portray the representation of evil, proclaiming the destruction of faith and the emergence of a new power, personified by the figure of Mephisto, a demonic entity derived from Mephistopheles present in the Faust myth by Goethe. Conceptually, we approach the theme as a kind of distorted vision of religion and this power, where violence and destruction are glorified as a form of rebellion against the divine. Our intention with the musical aesthetic of this track was to contextualize a story being told, like in a movie. It’s a song that builds up and reaches peaks of explosion and high energy.
The music video was filmed in Porto Alegre/RS and directed by producer and filmmaker André Moraes (SEPULTURA, LISBELA E O PRISIONEIRO) and Ana Carol.”
“A Mass To The Grotesque” track listing:
- Solve Et Coagula – Introduction
- Chapels of the Unholy
- Dawn of Mephisto
- Denied Divinity
- The Impostor King
- Faithless Requiem
- Psalm 7:8 – God of Bizarre
- Terror Inheritance
- The Grotesque
- Blood upon the Throne
- Venomous Creed
You can watch the official video for “Dawn Of Mephisto” below:
