TOTAL ANNIHILATION – neues Video Clip; Album im Januar
TOTAL ANNIHILATION have revealed another song from their new album "Mountains of Madness", coming on January 16th 2026 via Testimony Records.
A video clip for "Beneath The Cross" is available here: https://youtu.be/ETGhMZRG21o
“When we wrote this song, the topic of the lyrics was very important to me. I felt an urgent need to bring this old story back to the table again. It’s about religions selling hope to their clients with the sole intention of manipulating them and filling up the good old gold chambers in the basements of their temples. This one goes out to you, my little Christian do-gooder being – there’s no paradise! In death there’s only darkness – so take care of your own life and stop telling others what’s right or wrong! Fun fact for all the music nerds: The iconic melody in the middle of the song is very old. I wrote this line at the age of twelve or thirteen and searched endlessly for the perfect match to use it. Here it is – and I’m very happy with the outcome”, says guitar player Jürgen Schmid.
TOTAL ANNIHILATION will celebrate the band's 20th anniversary year with the release of their fourth full-length "Mountains of Madness". This album delivers all the Swiss precision and trademark elements their following has come to expect of them but also with more of everything: more tempo and serious speed, more brutality, more power, more thrash, more death but also more harmonies, more melodies, and more musicality!
There are also more tentacles, more jaws, more razor-sharp teeth, more twisted mutation, and definitely more evil! Talking about tentacles, the album title points already towards the famous cosmic horror novella "At the Mountains of Madness" (1936) by American gothic author H. P. Lovecraft, who has been a constant source of inspiration for the metal scene in general and TOTAL ANNIHILATION in particular.
Yet for TOTAL ANNIHILATION all this horror is not just escapism for entertainment but it serves a meaningful purpose. The album is permeated by a deep moral disgust and burning anger towards all the evil and reckless destruction that humanity forces onto itself and all other forms of life on this planet and earth itself. "Mountains of Madness" is conceived as an echo of and a bold manifesto about the state of the world as well as an artistic sign of our time.
"Mountains of Madness" was recorded by Christoph Brandes at Iguana Studios in Freiburg (DE) and mixed & mastered by Ronnie Björnström at Björnström Sound & Production in Sundsvall (SE). The cover artwork was created by Bruno Gonzalez.
Tracklist:
01. The Art of Torture >>> https://youtu.be/HFvbwr_JSKQ
02. Mountains of Madness
03. Illusion
04. Chokehold
05. Choose the Day
06. Age of Mental Suicide >>> https://youtu.be/1WqXe6PUWEE
07. Nyctophobia
08. Beneath the Cross
09. Invisible Conflagration
10. Lost Forever
11. Hate Remains
Line-up:
Daniel Altwegg – Vocals
Nicolas Stelz – Guitars
Jürgen Schmid – Guitars
Michael Lautenschläger – Drums
Niklaus Denger – Bass
Guest apperance: Additional Vocals by Luca Piazzalonga (Vígljós/Gravpel) on "Choose the Day"
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