The Black Dahlia Murder have confirmed that their new album “Nightbringers” will be released on October 6. You can watch a video for the title track below:
Trevor Strnad said the following about the album:
“Death metal and nighttime are synonymous to me. We are the rulers of the darkened hours that the Christian good fears. A lot of archaic ideas that are still upheld – such as marriage and monogamy – came from Christianity, whether people want to acknowledge it or not, and to me, death metal has always been bucking that. It’s ‘being-the-villain music’, because we’re the enemy of Christianity, the enemy of all that is good and traditional.
Death metal is for free thinkers, it’s for showing people the path to inner strength and operating on your own will, instead of being told what to do and living in fear, and songs like the title track and ‘Kings Of The Nightworld‘ are about leading a legion of awakened minds into battle.
I felt I needed to rise to the occasion to make as much of the blood and guts and heinousness as possible, and there was actually a couple of points where I rewrote some songs. I just didn’t feel like they were dark enough, or violent enough, so I was really trying to ramp up the monstrous aspects of things – the grizzlier the better!”
“Nightbringers” Track Listing:
01. “Widowmaker”
02. “Of God And Serpent, Of Spectre And Snake”
03. “Matriarch”
04. “Nightbrigners”
05. “Jars”
06. “Knights Of The Nightworld”
07. “Catacomb Hecatomb”
08. “As Good As Dead”
09. “The Lonely Deceased”
In other news, the band have also announced a tour with Suffocation, Decrepit Birth, Necrot and Wormwitch:
10/06 Rochester, NY – Montage Music Hall
10/07 Lowell, MA – Mill City Ballroom
10/08 Poughkeepsie, NY – Chance Theater
10/10 New York, NY – Highline Ballroom
10/11 Teaneck, NJ – Debonair Music Hall
10/12 Baltimore, MD – Ram’s Head Live
10/13 Easton, PA – One Center Square
10/14 Lancaster, PA – The Chameleon
10/16 Montreal, QC – Les Foufounes Electriques
10/17 Ottawa, ON – Bronson Center
10/18 Toronto, ON – Opera House
10/20 Joliet, IL – The Forge
10/21 Ft. Wayne, IN – Piere’s
10/22 St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall
10/23 Omaha, NE – The Slowdown
10/25 Ringle, WI – Q & Z Expo Center
10/26 Winnipeg, MB – Pyramid Cabaret
10/27 Regina, SK – The Exchange
10/28 Edmonton, AB – Starlite
10/29 Calgary, AB – Marquee
10/31 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater
11/01 Seattle, WA – Studio Seven (feat. Exhumed)
11/02 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall (feat. Exhumed)
11/03 Lake Tahoe, NV – Vinyl @ Hard Rock (feat. Exhumed)
11/04 Petaluma, CA – Phoenix Theater (feat. Exhumed (no Suffocation)
11/05 San Bernardino, CA – KnotFest (no Necrot/Wormwitch)
11/06 Mesa, AZ – Club Red (feat. Exhumed)
11/07 Las Vegas, NV – Hard Rock Cafe
11/09 Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
11/10 Birmingham, AL – Zydeco
11/11 Louisville, KY – Diamond Pub Concert Hall