"Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the first part of the “De Doden Hebben Het Goed” trilogy, Wiegedood from Belgium, is eager to announce their European tour honoring the record’s anniversary, as well as the 10 year existence of the band. The band will perform their much acclaimed trilogy in its entirety on this exclusive tour. Amounting to a set time of almost 2 hours of heavy duty black metal, the boundaries of the audience’s, as well as the band’s, stamina will surely be put to the test. With the release of their last album “There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road”, Wiegedood have refrained playing a lot of Trilogy material as of late. So to those who have yearned hearing the band’s older material, this is it!
Treha Sektori, hailing from Paris, will be supporting the band on their run through Europe. The one-man project of Dehn Sora, an established name in the world of dark ambient music, will provide an unsettling prelude for what’s to come. Having supported the band on their first European Tour 10 years ago, his presence will make this a full circle endeavor.
The band comments: “It’s been a sweet ride so far! We’re amazed at the opportunities we’ve had over the last 10 years. And while we’re currently in the process of writing our next album, it feels good to take a step back and look at the road we’ve traveled so far. We’re looking forward to giving something back to the people who have been with us since day one. To dust of these songs we haven’t played in such a long time and reflect on who we were 10 years ago feels like a valuable exercise to determine where we’ll take this thing next. Or rather, where it will take us.”
WIEGEDOOD
As the world circles the abyss at gathering speed, WIEGEDOOD have returned to provide a perfectly vicious soundtrack. Formed in 2014, the Belgian trio have built an unassailable reputation as purveyors of visceral and bleak black metal in its purest and most destructive form. Since unveiling their debut album De Doden Hebben Het Goed in 2015, WIEGEDOOD have blazed an unending trail for musical darkness, bolstering their burgeoning notoriety with some of the most apocalyptic live performances in recent memory, and producing two subsequent albums – De Doden Hebben Het Goed II and III, released in 2017 and 2018 respectively – which hammered home the band’s unique creative powers.
Emerging once more, this time from the involuntary solitude of a plague-bound world, WIEGEDOOD are back with their fourth studio album, There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road. A ferocious tour-de-force, born of frustration and the ever-burning flame of hatred for the modern world, the new record marks a significant departure for this most ruthlessly singular of modern metal bands.
“For all our previous records, we had the same formula, in that every record in the De Doden Hebben Het Goed trilogy would be four songs with one title track,” explains vocalist/guitarist Levy Seynaeve. “Since this is the first record we’ve made outside of the trilogy it gave us a lot more freedom to do whatever came to mind. On top of that we had a lot more time to put everything together. We ended up with a much more coherent and thought out record than we ever have before.”
Exploding into foul life with opener FN SCAR 16, There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road is instantly identifiable as WIEGEDOOD’s most violent and focused work to date. With bilious, spiralling riffs erupting from all angles and some of the band’s most inventive and perverse arrangements yet, everything from the sinewy blast of And In Old Salamano’s Room, The Dog Whimpered Softly to the epic blizzard of Now Will Always Be confirms that Levy and band mates Gilles Demolder (guitars) and Wim Coppers (drums) are never been more potent.
“Musically I think we’ve made our most uncomfortable record so far. It’s once again faster than anything we’ve done before, and more unforgiving than the whole trilogy combined. To me, it feels like a soundtrack, for a movie yet to be made. A movie about the filthiest and most disgusting parts of human nature and society, and about the struggle we lead within, trying to overcome the fact we are all made from that same filth.”
Instinctively sworn to the black, WIEGEDOOD have always been fearless when confronting humanity’s darkest shadows. While the new album is not a concept record and deals with many different notions and conceits, Levy admits that the new material represents a noteworthy shift in lyrical focus.
“Since the De Doden Hebben Het Goed trilogy was an ode to a deceased friend called Florent Pevee, a lot of the lyrics dealt with loss, which is not the case on this new album,” he notes. “If there’s one big change lyrically, it’s that there’s less of a self-pitying vibe to it than before. The overall feel isn’t about lying down, but getting back up. To embrace the hurt and overcome it instead of letting it define you. But there’s no one lyrical theme throughout the whole record. I’ve felt more at ease to write about a diversity of things instead of finding new ways to say I don’t feel so great.”
The perfect way to enter a new year with venom and vitriol flowing through every vein, WIEGEDOOD’s malevolent return is exactly what this wicked world needs. And like every great untamed force, these idiosyncratic destroyers will not be denied the right to take their music to the people for much longer. There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road is the starting point for a sustained assault like no other.
“We mostly want to get back out there and play. I believe in the quality of the record. This pandemic has been a good thing, but it has been over for a long time now and we feel like it’s time to attach a live experience to these songs. That’s what it’s about in the end: experiencing the music in a live setting, as loud and painful as we intend it to be.”
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TREHA SEKTORI
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