Swedish metal supergroup Bloodbath has announced that they will be releasing their fourth studio album Grand Morbid Funeral on November 17th via Peaceville Records. It is the followup to 2008’s fantastically vicious and brutal The Fathomless Mastery, which was the last album to feature vocalist Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth).
Guitarist Anders “Blakkheim” Nystrom (Katatonia) tells Metal Hammer:
We’re proud of all these different styled releases and we loved doing each and every one of them, but the objective was never to settle with a certain style, so our time has come to shift once more.
It was already decided right after the last album that the next record would not become The Fathomless Mastery part two, but in certain aspects it would actually become its antithesis.
So prepare for an ultimate blueprint of destructive, raw, heavy, organic, and sludgy death metal.
A new vocalist will be announced on September 16th on Metal Hammer.
The band is set to appear at several festivals in 2015, such as the Maryland Deathfest in the US (who wants to go?) and Norway’s Inferno.
