Sudden Death have unleashed “The Torture Wheel”, the second single taken from their upcoming fourth album “In Sinner Hate”, due out May 19th, 2025 via Time To Kill Records. Picking up where the previous single left off, “The Torture Wheel” drags the listener into a suffocating vortex of violence and despair, perfectly embodying the album’s core themes of alienation, social decay and inner torment.
The band commented:
“‘The Torture Wheel’ is a song that addresses the theme of sadism. In a hellish scenario, victims are tortured in an endless cycle, impaled on a constantly rotating toothed wheel, a metaphor for the inexorable monotony of life.”
The album was mixed and mastered by Stefano “Saul” Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance, Hideous Divinity), with additional recordings by Marco “Cinghio” Mastrobuono (Hour Of Penance, Shores Of Null) and Giuseppe Orlando (Novembre, Stormlord).
The album title plays phonetically with the word “Incinerate”, but takes on the meaning of “In the sinner’s hate”, reflecting the dark and introspective themes that permeate the entire work. In this new effort, the band delves into concepts such as violence, monotony, loneliness, alienation, respectability, and hardship, while also tackling broader topics like war, pollution, and social isolation, exploring them in their most visceral form.
While maintaining the claustrophobic, minimalist, and massive approach that has always defined Sudden Death, the new material ventures into more intricate and elaborate directions. The band’s death metal carries a modern edge, yet retains clear nods to the old-school brutality of Cannibal Corpse and Sinister. The guitars intertwine constantly, layering different yet harmonized riffs before reconverging into a single, powerful sonic force, creating a complex and dynamic listening experience.
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1. In Sinner Hate (Intro) 2. The Modern Pharisee 3. Destined to Fall 4. The World is Hate 5. Living Corruption 6. The Beast Awakening 7. Channelling Misery 8. The Torture Wheel 9. Acidic Ways of Parity 10. Human Death Machine 11. The Human Demise |
