New York Death Metal legends, SUFFOCATION, to unleash their ninth full-length album, “Hymns From The Apocrypha”, on November 3rd via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to “…Of The Dark Light” (2017) and the first release featuring the new vocalist Ricky Meyers, pushes the band to the very edges of extremity and is arguably the group’s strongest-sounding, most sonically punishing album yet. SUFFOCATION have achieved Death Metal perfection.
The band offers fans the first taste of the album with the ferocious track, “Seraphim Enslavement”. The menacing music video was directed and edited by Tom Flynn with character design by Kyle Monroe and is the perfect visual pairing to Ricky Myers’s monstrous vocals.
SUFFOCATION took about a month and a half to record ‘Hymns From The Apocrypha’. They holed up at Hobbs and Boyer’s InLine Studio in Long Island. The duo engineered and co-produced with Christian Donaldson, who was also re-enlisted to mix and master, with Dominic Grimard assisting. With stunning cover art by Greek illustrator Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design, ‘Hymns From The Apocrypha’ is characteristically SUFFOCATION. It’s uncompromisingly brutal, artistically gutsy, and aurally heavy. Clearly, SUFFOCATION, as they head into their 35th Anniversary, are at the peak of their potential. Death metal or die!
Derek Boyer comments: “This is my fifth full-length studio album with SUFFOCATION and this album came out SICK! It features all of the brutal, technical, chaotic twists and turns everyone would expect from SUFFOCATION, plus new elements that are out of the normal realm one might expect. This is the sophomore effort of working with Christian Donaldson (who mixed and mastered Live In North America) and he absolutely KILLED IT on this one!!! We can’t wait to bring these songs to the stage and crush everything in our path!”
Ricky Myers states: “We are thrilled to unveil our 9th full-length album, ‘Hymns From The Apocrypha’, a creatively composed piece that blends our style of music with lyrical depth and intricate artwork. This album is a testament to our devotion to brutal music, which we display in the video of our single, ‘Seraphim Enslavement’, a visual journey that complements the album’s concept.”
SUFFOCATION are staying busy this fall with their 6-date Darkness Within Mexico Tour 2023, followed by their Ancient Unholy Rising Tour 2023 with co-headliners legendary Death Metal band INCANTATION. The 26-date trek will kick off on November 7th in Baltimore and makes its way across North America with performances in Montreal, Seattle, and Houston before its conclusion in Greensboro on December 4th.
“Hymns From The Apocrypha” track listing:
- Hymns from the Apocrypha
- Perpetual Deception
- Dim Veil of Obscurity
- Immortal Execration
- Seraphim Enslavement
- Descendants
- Embrace the Suffering
- Delusions of Mortality
- Ignorant Deprivation
You can watch the official music video for “Seraphim Enslavement” below:
