Scandinavian black metallers, Sarcator, are creeping up on the release of their third album. Swarming Angels & Flies is due to drop on January 17th, via Century Media Records. The band gave a taste of the record late last year, with their video single for the title track. Keep reading below to find out more.
Digital pre-orders are available here: https://sarcator.bandcamp.com/album/swarming-angels-flies-24-bit-hd-audio
Sarcator explains about the record and its creation process, “We wanted to highlight the most aggressive and extreme parts of us, but we still wanted to work with dynamics, so you still have elements of classic rock and post-punk, which we started experimenting with on the last record. There is no question that it’s our most intense, brutal, and rawest creation yet – It’s not really a genre album and we like to keep it that way.”
At a juvenile ages of 14-20, Sarcator released their first demo tape, Visions of Purgatory, via the American label Redefining Darkness Records in 2019. Just two years later the quadrumvirate got nominated for best rock/metal album for the Swedish music award P3 Guld with their 2020’s self-titled debut release for the same label. After releasing their 2nd album, Alkahest, via Black Lion Records in 2022, Sarcator finally got a proper chance to play live, captivating crowds with their intense, blackened live shows.
With their current line-up fully committed to the band despite their young age (all members are between 19 and 25) it was time for them to record their third album, which still features previous guitarist Emil Eriksson. Shortly after signing a new worldwide deal with Century Media Records and heading out on a debut European tour supporting Hellripper and Cloak, Sarcator will be releasing Swarming Angels & Flies.
This album marks the most intense, brutal and rawest creation yet for the band. It is a remarkably mature and sophisticated piece of work, from mercurial musicians who are only in their early 20’s, and still at the beginning of their creative journey. Across eight, grotesque and utterly venomous tracks, Sarcator have deftly blended the wide-eyed extremity of their debut album with the inspirational musicality of their second record Alkahest, while playing everything with more intensity than ever before. Both deliriously melodic and mercilessly brutal: Swarming Angels & Flies is the most dangerously potent record the Swedes have made to date.
Swarming Angels & Flies tracklisting:
01 Burning Choir
02 Comet of End Times
03 Swarming Angels & Flies
04 The Deep Ends
05 Where the Void Begins
06 The Undercurrent
07 Closure
08 Unto Sepulchres
Formats:
CD Jewelcase (in O-Card) w/ 11 tracks
Ltd. Purple LP (300x copies!) w/ 8 tracks & 2-page LP insert
Black LP w/ 8 tracks & 2-page LP insert
CD Jewelcase (US Version) w/ 8 tracks
With plenty of live activity in support of the upcoming album, Sarcator are already at the forefront of an emergent, highly determined new generation of Scandinavian extreme metal bands and ready to take the rest of the world by storm soon too.
Lineup:
Mateo Tervonen – Vocals, Guitar
Felix Lindkvist – Bass
Leo Buchalle – Guitar
Jesper Rosén – Drums
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https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sarcator/1456292763