And there’s a new song too, but check out that artwork!!

Memoriam announce today that they will be releasing their debut album titled For The Fallen on March 24th via Nuclear Blast. Not only is the band some premium Death Metal but the album’s cover has somewhat stolen my blackened Metal heart. 

Put together by one legendary Dan Seagrave, a man who is legendary among the Death Metal elite simply put it just looks brilliant! The song itself is a lumbering affair similar to the likes of Entombed so if you’re a fan of Death ‘n’ Roll chances are you’ll dig this! 

Seagrave himself had this to say about the artwork : 

“Starting from the bands thoughts on visualising a kind of funeral procession with a theme of combat, war and in conjunction with the title ‘For the Fallen’. As with all my works, I then attempt to make the information evolve in my minds’ eye, and allow imagination to take over those elements. But retaining the core concept. The painting thus depicts.

 A funeral procession moving through a long war torn cityscape. Twisted shards of towers & buildings. A cathedral facade stands defiantly, yet riddled with destruction and decay. At closer inspection the structures all seem to be
infected with an element of natural decomposition, as if organically inclined to fade with the demise of the season.

The season itself lost in a timeless void.

The figures appear as remnants of once soldiers, now strange in their gathered mass. Drawn forwards by the drifting momentum of the procession. Unaware of their emaciated state they follow the commander.

The Commander’s elongated appearance is tattered and almost creature like, with the combat style elements and gas mask falsely presenting as a costume.

The procession appears almost ghost like, ancient and serene, slowly moving through this eerie place as if forever.

Far in the background there might still be a war happening, but perhaps in another time. As we view a sub level of reality. Lost in the present. Captured in light, where the war had passed through and we are left in a ghost biology. Where chemicals and history meet to create an inescapable surrealism.”