Today, German death metallers Reckless Manslaughter premiere the new track “Befouled Commandments” at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated fourth album, Sinking Into Filth, set for international release on October 21st: Memento Mori will release the CD version while Fucking Kill Records will release the vinyl LP version. Hear Reckless Manslaughter‘s “Befouled Commandments” in its entirety exclusively HERE.
Summoned in North Rhine-Westphalia in November 2008, the walking corpse known as Reckless Manslaughter is living proof that death has many faces, covering all tempo variations and unaware of trends or conventions, all the while maintaining a core personality of their very own. To descend into the nether regions where these death metal acolytes dwell is to be left to fester in a desolate and fathomless realm whose landscape is filled to the brim with violent blasts, crushing mid-tempo sections, gloomy doom-ish parts, and atrocious growls, rounded off with a sprinkling of eerie Finnish melodies.
Reckless Manslaughter are nothing if not dependable, and across their three full-lengths to date – 2011’s Storm of Vengeance, 2013’s Blast Into Oblivion, and 2019’s Caverns of Perdition – the Germans have proudly upheld the banner of pure & total DEATH METAL. And thankfully, they show no signs of letting down that banner with their fourth full-length, Sinking Into Filth. Like its album predecessors, Sinking Into Filth is all too accurately titled, with wave after wave of world-eating riff & vocal swallowing the listener whole. Reckless Manslaughter here exude a uniquely “gloomy bounce” in their stridently surging songcraft; the energy is felt in full – usually, in the listener’s chest cavity – but a paradoxically sorrowful sensation is intertwined into these judiciously compact compositions. What results is something both hypnotizing and HEAVY, in all senses of the world…or, simply, this filth is fucking HUGE. The climax comes with the closing ten-minute epic “Risen From the Mass Grave,” which literally sounds like its title. Need more hints? Just check out the cover art, courtesy of Lucas Korte.
Maniacs of Bolt Thrower, Finland’s Demigod, Benediction, Asphyx, and Sinister should already be familiar with Reckless Manslaughter. Those who aren’t are encouraged to begin Sinking Into Filth: expect nothing but utter annihilation and uncompromising, underground-worshipping Metal of Death!
Continue worshipping with the brand-new track “Befouled Commandments” exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Begin worshipping with the previously revealed “Retreat Into Nothingness” HERE at Memento Mori‘s official YouTube channel. Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Reckless Manslaughter’s Sinking Into Filth
1. Caverns of Perdition
2. Befouled Commandments
3. Awaiting My Demise
4. Retreat into Nothingness
5. Aktion 1005
6. Ruf der Leere
7. The Sacred Lie [Diabolical Imperium cover]
8. Risen from the Mass Grave
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