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EXHUMED: New Album To The Dead To See Release October 21st Via Relapse Records; ‘Drained Of Color’ Video Now Playing + Fall US Headlining Tour Announced

EXHUMED returns from the depths with their macabre new album, To The Dead, out October 21st on Relapse Records! In advance of the record’s release, today the band unleashes a video for first single, ‘Drained Of Color’, directed by Nikko DeLuna. Comments frontman Matt Harvey, “Like a lingering infection, we’ve returned to excruciate your eardrums and splatter your senses! The lads and I are very stoked to excrete our latest audio abortion onto the collective face of the underground. We’ve dialed up the ‘gross-o-meter’ to 666, so if gore-soaked blastbeats, disgusting vocals, and meat-cleaving riffs are your idea of a […]

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EXHUMED & GRUESOME Announce Twisted Horror Split Coming June 5th

EXHUMED & GRUESOME Announce Twisted Horror Split Coming June 5th Gore Metal maniacs EXHUMED and Death Metal Defenders of the Old GRUESOME return for more kills and thrills with their new split, Twisted Horror, out June 5th. EXHUMED / GRUESOME mastermind Matt Harvey comments: “As everyone knows, it’s a weird, surreal time for us all. So many plans have been disrupted at this point, it’s academic to even get into, but one thing that we didn’t want to postpone was this new EXHUMED / GRUESOME split record. With so many of us stuck at home, we’re all depending on Death […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: Exhumed

On their previous album Death Revenge, EXHUMED experimented with more involved songwriting and a conceptual storytelling approach. Reaction to the record was decidedly mixed, so the gorehounds have gone back to basics and stripped their music to the literal bone. Horror disposes of the long songs and ambient interludes and dives into a pit of simple gory grind. The band is probably going to want to kill me for this, but I actually prefer Death Revenge. That was an album that took a few risks with the formula. Horror is pretty much formula deathgrind right to the core. With sixteen […]