Exhumed are returning with a new album, To the Dead (out October 21st), and shared the gruesome video for lead single “Drained of Color.” The band also announced a fall 2022 US tour in support of the upcoming LP.
The extreme metal vets deliver six minutes of pummeling death metal with “Drained of Color,” combining chugging rhythms and breakdowns with grindcore vocals and frenzied blast beats. The band has always had an affinity for toeing the line between death metal and grindcore, and this track is another fine example.
Exhumed are also outspoken horror movie fans and get to star in their own gory video for the single. Cut between performance footage, the band members find themselves in a distant past, dressed in antiquated attire. The group revels in libations and games of chess until events take a dark turn when they’re poisoned by a mysterious concoction.
Remarked frontman Matt Harvey on the forthcoming album: “Like a lingering infection, we’ve returned to excruciate your eardrums and splatter your senses! The lads and I are very stoked to excrete our latest audio abortion onto the collective face of the underground. We’ve dialed up the ‘gross-o-meter’ to 666, so if gore-soaked blastbeats, disgusting vocals, and meat-cleaving riffs are your idea of a good time, you’re in for a fucken treat!”
Exhumed will be hitting the road shortly after the album’s release with support from Hulder, Vitriol, Molder, and Castrator on select dates. The outing kicks off November 10th in Portland, Oregon, and runs through December 17th in Oakland, California. Tickets go on sale Thursday (September 1st) at 11 a.m. ET via Ticketmaster.
Pre-order To the Dead via Relapse. Below you can stream the video for “Drained of Color” and see the full list of tour dates as well as the LP artwork and tracklist.
To the Dead Artwork:
To the Dead Tracklist:
01. Putrescine and Cadaverine
02. Drained of Color
03. Carbonized
04. Rank and Defiled
05. Lurid, Shocking, and Vile
06. Undertaking the Overkilled
07. Nerotica
08. No Headstone Unturned
09. Defecated
10. Disgusted
Exhumed’s 2022 US Tour Dates:
11/10 – Portland, OR @ Dante’s *
11/11 – Seattle, WA @ Substation *
11/12 – Boise, ID @ The Shredder *
11/13 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Ace’s High Saloon *
11/14 – Denver, CO @ HQ *
11/16 – Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge *
11/17 – Des Moines, IA @ Lefty’s *
11/18 – Chicago, IL @ Reggies *
11/19 – Milwaukee, WI @ Club Garibaldi *
11/20 – Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary *
11/21 – Cincinnati, OH @ Legends *
11/22 – Cleveland, OH @ No Class *
11/23 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Cattivo ^
11/25 – Boston, MA @ Sonia ^
11/26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas ^
11/27 – Brooklyn, NY @ The Meadows ^
11/29 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery ^
11/30 – Norfolk, VA @ Norfolk Taphouse ^
12/01 – Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern ^
12/02 – Atlanta, GA @ Bogg’s ^
12/03 – Orlando, FL @ Will’s Pub ^
12/04 – Tampa, FL @ Brass Mug ^
12/07 – Houston, TX @ White Oak ^
12/08 – Austin, TX @ Come and Take it Live ^
12/09 – Dallas, TX @ Amplified ^
12/10 – San Antonio, TX @ Rock Box ^
12/12 – Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad ^
12/13 – Mesa, AZ @ Nile Underground ^
12/14 – San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick ^
12/15 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation ^
12/16 – Los Angeles, CA @ Don Quixote ^
12/17 – Oakland, CA @ Eli’s Mile High ^
* = with Hulder, Vitriol, and Mulder
^ = with Hulder, Vitriol, and Castrator
