Benediction release lyric video for "A Carrion Harvest"
Today, British death metal legends, Benediction, are celebrating the release of their highly anticipated new album “Ravage Of Empires”, not only with the coinciding release of a lyric video for the album's devastating opening track A Carrion Harvest, but also by kicking off their European tour with guests Junge Rot & Master tonight in Hamburg.
"Brace for impact, or be blown away" - these lines from the chorus of fast-paced ripper A Carrion Harvest can be regarded as a condensed instruction manual for “Ravage Of Empires”. The album's opening track sets the stage for a demonstration of pure old-school death metal power in eleven chapters by one of the genre's pioneers, and its torch bearers to this day and age.
You can watch the lyric video for A Carrion Harvest below or you can stream the “Ravage Of Empires” album in full at a service of your choice HERE.
“Sometimes They Come Back” is not just the title of a horror movie based on a macabre tale by Stephen King, it is also a summary of what happened to UK death metal veterans Benediction, yet you might like to add a “better than ever before”. While never officially disbanded, 2020’s “Scriptures”, the group’s eighth studio album achieved what is usually not an easy feat. It connected well with classics like “Transcend the Rubicon” (1993) and its immediate and memorable songwriting, the heavy-as-a-brick “Grind Bastard” (1998), and also saw legendary vocalist Dave Ingram return with his merciless roar and knack for morbid, twisted lyrics.
After two albums with Dave Hunt on vocals, “Scriptures” was Benedictions’s first record in over a decade impressing with aggressive up-tempo attacks like Iterations of I and Rabid Carnality or the neck-breaking mid-tempo barrage of Stormcrow, songs that became live staples alongside evergreens such as I Bow to None, Magnificat, Subconscious Terror or Vision in the Shroud in no time. With “Scriptures”, Benediction even almost cracked Germany’s top ten by entering at a phenomenal #11 of the Official German Charts showing that the death metal veterans founded 1989 in Birmingham, England, offered an extremely well received sonic catharsis when due to the pandemic, people were locked down and pissed off.
Band photos (c) Karen Rew
With their brilliant new record “Ravage Of Empires” in tow, founding members and guitarists Darren Brookes and Peter Rew, longtime vocalist Dave Ingram, drummer Giovanni Durst, and Nik Sampson (bass) will travel far and wide once more. Already confirmed are the Tales of the Triple Death Tour with Jungle Rot and Master kicking off on album release date as well as confirmed appearances at Wacken Open Air and Maryland Deathfest. More to be announced soon!
“Ravages Of Empires” is out now, and available to buy from Nuclear Blast Records, or stream on your favourite platform HERE.
