Two decades into their venerable careers, Baltimore Death Metal savants MISERY INDEX are back with their new record, “Complete Control”, to be released on May 13th via Century Media Records. On April 28th the band has released the title track of their upcoming album, alongside an official video directed, filmed and edited by J.T. Ibanez.
The album was mixed by Will Putney, mastered by Jens Bogren / Fascination Street studios and features artwork by Matt Lombard.
“Complete Control” is a riff-driven assault that captures the tension of the modern condition and channels it into 9 songs of ripping end-times Death Metal. Spewing with Orwellian invective and razor-sharp songwriting, “Complete Control” is a much-needed hammer to the face; a wake-up call for the disaffected and dispossessed.
MISERY INDEX bassist/vocalist Jason Netherton states on the album: “We are super stoked to present our new album ‘Complete Control’ – a pandemic-spawned 9-track opus of vitriolic Death Metal which draws heavily on our enduring brutal hardcore and grindcore influences. We tracked the album in September and October of 2021, and it was subsequently mixed by Will Putney prior to being mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street studios. The cover features the visceral, uncanny work of visual artist Matt Lombard, which to us hammers home the contradictory forces of control and chaos which define our modern age. The album’s central lyrical themes focus on these competing forces of control and chaos; they interrogate ‘power’ as something that is not always wielded with brute force in the modern age (through violence), but moreso as a control-society where it manifests on a self-governing, individual level. “
“Complete Control” tracklisting:
- Administer the Dagger
- The Eaters and the Eaten
- Complete Control
- Necessary Suffering
- Rites of Cruelty
- Conspiracy of None
- Infiltrators
- Reciprocal Repulsion
- Now Defied!
You can watch the official video for “Complete Control” below:
