It's time for another deep dive into the horrors of mortality and the foul side of the supernatural. It's time for Survival Of The
Sickest (September 9, 2022 via Napalm Records), the sixth full-length album from BLOODBATH, Sweden's undisputed masters
of old school death metal. Formed by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström (both of Katatonia), Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) and
Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity) in 1998, BLOODBATH devoted themselves to resurrecting the increasingly forgotten art of pure
death metal. In 2014, they unveiled a new frontman - legendary Paradise Lost vocalist Nick Holmes, now redubbed Old Nick
- and yet another macabre musical evolution. With a line-up of Renkse, Nyström, Per 'Sodomizer' Eriksson (ex-Katatonia),
Martin 'Axe' Axenrot (ex-Opeth) and Holmes, the only way to go was grim.
Alongside BLOODBATH's official alumni, Survival Of The Sickest boasts a smattering of irresistible cameos from the great,
good and ghoulish of the metal underground, including Barney Greenway (Napalm Death), Luc Lemay (Gorguts) and Marc
Grewe (Morgoth).
TRACKLIST:
Zombie Inferno
Putrefying Corpse
Dead Parade
Malignant Maggot Therapy
Carved
Born Infernal
To Die
Affliction of Extinction
Tales of Melting Flesh
Environcide
No God Before Me