After announcing their signing to Century Media Records back in July, young Swedish blackened thrash metal force Sarcator are unleashing their newest single “Swarming Angels & Flies”, which will also be the title track of their upcoming album. The record, marking already the third full length release for the band, will be released on January 17th, 2025, via Century Media Records.
The title track “Swarming Angels & Flies” is accompanied by a performance video directed by Christoffer Tönnäng.
Sarcator’s “Swarming Angels & Flies” sets the bar high for the upcoming album in terms of speed, heaviness and pure desire to see this song (and hopefully soon more) unfold live. Starting off like an explosion, the song delivers a sonic blast hurling the audience straight into a fire pit with raw, untamed energy.
Vocalist Mateo Tervonen shares about the single:
“Swarming Angels & Flies is the title track for our upcoming record for a reason. It represents the elements of the album perfectly and is one of those songs that you want to break the silence with. It erupts out of nowhere and hits you like a concrete fist. A perfect violent introduction of what’s to come and what this album really is about.”
The title track does only offer a glimpse of what the upcoming album “Swarming Angels & Flies” will entail and yet one thing is certain: 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 Swedens have made to date.
Sarcator share 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.”
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Burning Choir Comet of End Times Swarming Angels & Flies The Deep Ends Where the Void Begins The Undercurrent Closure Unto Sepulchres Dogfight (cover – originally Anti Cimex)* The Black Vomit (cover – originally Sarcófago* Torture (cover – originally Sadus)* |
Photo by Christoffer Hovhag
