DERELICT releases vocal playthrough of For Dread Off – new album “Versus Entropy” now available! : Metal-Rules.com

After a 12-year hiatus, they return with their groundbreaking and highly anticipated album “Against Entropy” Montreal, Canada’s largest Expired share their latest vocal playthrough of frontman Eric Burnet for the track “Infinite Fear”:

Burnet’s comments on the playthrough:

“Infinite Dread is about how social media, the news cycle, and algorithms have taken over and monetized our attention spans, resulting in huge profits for tech and media companies and infinite angst for everyone else. I threw in a little nod to Glen Benton from Deicide at the beginning of the playthrough because while we were preparing to record, there was a clip in the metal media where Glen was essentially saying in an interview that musicians don’t look very metal anymore and wear black-rimmed glasses and hats. I thought that was funny because that’s what I wear in my everyday life, but I thought it would be extra funny to promote a song about the bullshit and chaos on social media by commenting on a casual comment someone made in a video, as if that even mattered. I love Glen, he’s been a huge influence on me vocally, and I think he’d probably get the joke. I really hope he likes my hat.”

Watch and listen to the vocal playthrough for “Infinite Fear” at youtu.be/yv5tzxkx-oU

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Expiredthe latest album “Against Entropy” is a testament to the synergy between Burnet and guitarist Max Lussier. Every song on the album is a collaborative effort, with contributions from bassist Sébastien Pittet and drummer Tommy McKinnon adding additional complexity and depth.

Unleashing their brutal melodic technical death metal, this album has been a long time coming as it unfolds in two clearly distinguishable chapters. The first four songs can be seen as a pure evolution of what they did on 2012’s “Perpetuation”. The whole thing is then separated by the instrumental piece “Attunement”, which offers a breather and a bridge to the last four tracks, which feature probably the most brutal, southern, thrashy and old-fashioned prog-death songs the band has ever written.

Lyrically, the album tackles global and personal issues, from climate change and social injustice to introspective explorations of identity and emotions. “Against Entropy” was produced by Burnet and Lussier, mixed and mastered by JF Dagenais (Cataclysm)with album artwork by Cate Francis.

Burnet adds of the album:

“Existing fans of Derelict will immediately recognise that this is us. We play technical death metal with a lot of melody and vocals that are rather clear (for death metal). Nevertheless, with this album we allowed ourselves to experiment and explore. 2012’s ‘Perpetuation’ was full steam ahead. It didn’t have a single clean passage. Although we are very proud of that album, we didn’t want to do that again. We wanted an album that hits hard, breathes and ends before you are overwhelmed. We were heavily influenced by the structure of Gorguts’ album ‘Colored Sands’, where they placed a long instrumental piece as the fifth track of a nine-song album. We set out to do something similar and wrote our first progressive instrumental song with a full band, ‘Attunement’. It serves as a bridge between the two halves of the album. The first four songs are probably similar to the ones from Derelict that people are most familiar with, but even within that there are more dynamics and variations. After Attunement, the second half is even more experimental. Dans Les Dents is Max’s first song with lead vocals and probably our most brutal song yet. Spectrum challenges conventions with a more bluesy/southern metal sound, but the lyrics are about celebrating differences within masculinity by making room for all kinds of identities. The song Derelict is very thrashy and also very cheesy. It’s an ode to the band’s history and I really didn’t hold back with the cheesy and sentimental lyrics. And finally, The Escapist, another song that Max sings, is very old school and progressive. You can definitely hear Max’s death and atheist influences there.”

Recommended for fans of Decapitated, Death and Cryptopsy, “Against Entropy” is available at the following links:

Bandcamp – derelictmetal.bandcamp.com​

Spotify – spoti.fi/3xNh0U7​

Youtube – www.youtube.com/@Derelictmetal​

Drum Playthrough – Versus Entropy – youtu.be/gVoamvx4nng

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(Album artwork by (Cate Francis)

Song list:​
1. Against Entropy – (4:32)
2. Infinite Fear – (4:23)
3. Terminals – (4:02)
4. Workhorse – (3:00)
5. Warm-up – (5:05)
6. In the teeth – (2:23)
7. Spectrum – (3:59)
8. Abandoned Car – (4:11)
9. The Escapist – (4:15)
Album length 35:50

More info: Facebook.com/DerelictMetal | Instagram.com/derelictmetal​