SLAUGHTERDAY – Albumankündigung & Videosingle Premiere
SLAUGHTERDAY unleash the crushing title track from their forthcoming new album, "Dread Emperor"!
The sixth full-length of the East Frisian death metal veterans has been scheduled for release on February, Friday the 13th, 2026 via Testimony Records on all formats.
Check out the video single here: https://youtu.be/cVNBrXpo5kg
Guitarist Jens Finger comments: "The title track, 'Dread Emperor', represents quintessential Slaughterday. It takes you on an unrelenting journey through old school death metal, from slow, crushing doom to blistering aggression, which is crowned by soaring melodic solos."
Bernd Reiners adds: "The song's lyrics portray the 'Dread Emperor' as the ultimate embodiment of fear itself, a timeless force that rules through terror and despair", the frontman writes. "With a world consumed by oppression, hopelessness, and submission, this track channels darkness and chaos to mirror the raw power of fear unleashed, making it both a sonic and thematic assault."
With "Dread Emperor", SLAUGHTERDAY deliver everything that they excel in, which is also precisely what their fans want from the duo: perfectly executed old school death metal with a wicked twist. From crushing doom-ridden ultra-heavy parts to calculated outbreaks of utter brutality, this record offers everything a still beating death metal heart could ask for. And of course, those cosmic horrors of the Great Old Ones, forbidden sounds, and tentacled death metal are still rising. The German band has also added more deeper meaning to their tales of cosmic terrors as a healthy antidote to stereotypes.
SLAUGHTERDAY present new horrors and more brutal madness than ever that make "Dread Emperor" essential listening for any self-respecting old school death metal afficionado!
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Jörg Uken at Soundlodge, Rhauderfehn (DE). The cover artwork was crafted by Pär Olofsson.
Tracklist:
01. Enthroned
02. Obliteration Crusade
03. Rapture of Rot
04. Astral Carnage
05. Subconscious Pandemonium
06. Dread Emperor
07. The Forsaken Ones
08. Necrocide
09. Dethroned
10. Golem (Protector cover)
Line-up:
Jens Finger – Guitars, Bass
Bernd Reiners – Vocals, Drums
Live Line-up:
Jens Finger – Guitars
Bernd Reiners – Vocals
Tobias Koops – Guitar
Ulf Imwiehe – Bass
Tom Hoffmann – Drums
Live Dates:
06 DEC 2025 Schwerin (DE) - Bus-Stop, X-Mas Grinch Attack
31 JAN 2026 Essen (DE) - Testimony Records Metal Festival +Asphyx et al. – Tickets: https://fest.testimonyrecords.de
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