October 22nd will see the release of Massacre‘s fourth full-length album “Resurgence” through Nuclear Blast. It will be their first new album in seven years with a visualizer for the first single, “The Innsmouth Strain“, available below.
Frontman Kam Lee commented:
“It’s all about Lovecraft isn’t it. Honesty though, aesthetically Massacre needed two main things to return to be proper. A) The return to the core roots of O.S.D.M. (Old School Death Metal) style death metal that late 80’s, early 90’s sound. Musically the record has to retain that nostalgic retro style. B) To return to the lyrical aesthetics laden with influences heavily drawn from the stories and fictional mythos that is all Lovecraftian.
‘The Innsmouth Strain‘ is heavily influenced by the H.P. Lovecraft story ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth>,’ yet has my own twisted take on transmutation body horror aspects thrown in. I sort of lyrically give it a David Cronenberg /Junji Ito type spin on a Lovecraft fiction. So lyrically it is basically it’s about body horror of aquatic transmutation.
Any deeper meaning then that is just speculative, but could simply be metaphor for our world’s current situation with the pandemic and other threats of the spreading of viral infection. Musically it’s just proper O.S.D.M. the way it’s meant to be played and properly represented by Massacre.”
Following last year’s last year’s acrimonious departure of guitarist Taylor Nordberg and drummer Jeramie Kling, Lee and bassist Mike Borders enlisted various guest talent to help flesh out this record. Among them:
- Guitars: Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Megascavenger, Rib Spreader)
- Guitars: Jonny Pettersson (Wombbath, Nattravnen, Henry Kane)
- Guitars: Scott Fairfax (Memoriam, As The World Dies)
- Drums: Brynjar Helgetun (Crypticus, The Grotesquery)
Guest appearances from Marc Grewe (Insidious Disease), Dave Ingram (Benediction), Anders Odden (Cadaver and Pete Slate (Druid Lord) will also be featured. You can pre-order the Dan Swanö produced outing here.
