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BENIGHTED Launch Music Video For ‘Casual Piece Of Meat’
June 1st, 2022

Saint Etienne, France-based deathgrind group Benighted have filmed a music video for the track ‘Casual Piece Of Meat’, which can be viewed below.

Speaking about the video, vocalist Julien Truchan said: “Here we go, guys! Another part of our lovely Michael story and the search for his mom’s love. We want to thank everyone who’s been involved in this creepy disgusting project, with a sweet taste of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Kick Your Eyes did great once again with these amazing actors. We give you ‘Casual Piece Of Meat’!”

Benighted issued ninth full-length studio album Obscene Repressed on April 10th, 2020 through Season Of Mist.

The outing can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below.

Julien Truchan commented: “This album tells the story of a psychotic boy [Michael] with oedipal issues. His mother finds his cleft-palate disgusting so he hides it from her sight at home. Among the symptoms of his psychosis, he sees himself as deeply deformed, has troubles with boundaries, and finds parallel ways to handle his growing sexual urges. He has a deep hatred for his father because he’d like to take his place by his mother’s side.

“As an act of ‘going back inside mom,’ he surprises her with dinner, cooking a meal with his own lips that he cuts off with his dad’s razor. His mother only realizes what she just ate when he takes off his bandages at the end of the dinner.”

Obscene Repressed was recorded in Kohlekeller Studio in Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany, with production and sound engineering from Kristian Bonifer. Mixing and mastering was handled by Tom Porcell.

Guest vocal appearances are made by Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta on ‘Implore The Negative’, Cytotoxin’s Sebastian Grihm on ‘The Starving Beast’, and Disbelief’s Karsten Jäger on ‘Mom, I Love You The Wrong Way’, respectively. “Guest vocals are a tradition for the band,” Truchan explained. “On Obscene Repressed, we have three amazing vocalists who were chosen considering the style of the track and what their voice could bring in terms of brutality and originality!

“Inviting my brother in arms Grimo from Cytotoxin on the track ‘The Starving Beast’ was obvious as it’s a very ‘martial’ and brutal track that it would create such violence in the super-fast switch of our vocal combinations! And for the record, I refused to tell him the concept of the story before he sent me his vocal parts, because it’s written like slaves were given to the lions in an arena in front of a bloodthirsty crowd, but it’s in fact about the psychotic boy masturbating in front of his dolls and toys and ‘The Starving Beast’ is actually his penis! (Laughs) We laughed a lot when I told him the story afterwards!”

He continued: “About Jäger, he already made vocals on our Icon album (2007), but when we wrote ‘Mom, I Love You The Wrong Way’, I surprised myself trying to imitate him on the chorus, so I thought that it had to be him, as he has such a killer and particular voice! The result is amazing!

“And the most surprising guest on the record is of course Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed! I am such a huge fan of Hatebreed! He spoke about Benighted last year on his podcast so I tried to reach him. When I received the mail that he would do it, I was so amazed! The mix of our vocals is so unique in the history of Benighted! ‘Implore The Negative’ has already become a hymn for me and I am very impatient to sing it on stage!”

Included as a bonus track is a cover interpretation of ‘Get This’. Written by Slipknot, its original rendition appeared as a bonus track on digipak versions of their June 1999 self-titled debut.

“We really like challenges!” stated Truchan. “When we decide to cover a song, we want it to mean something because their music was important to us and our musical history! The first Slipknot album came as a great surprise and it was out of the question to cover their ‘hits’ as that’s too obvious and easy! Covering a band like Slipknot and giving it the Benighted sound was a very cool experience. At the beginning of the track when Corey is asking for a scream, of course I made a pig squeal! (laughs)”

Cover artwork duties fell to Grindesign.

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Obscene Repressed’
02. ‘Nails’
03. ‘Brutus’
04. ‘The Starving Beast’ (feat. Sebastian Grihm)
05. ‘Smoke Through The Skull’
06. ‘Implore The Negative’ (feat. Jamey Jasta)
07. ‘Muzzle’
08. ‘Casual Piece Of Meat’
09. ‘Scarecrow’
10. ‘Mom, I Love You The Wrong Way’ (feat. Karsten Jäger)
11. ‘Undivided Dismemberment’
12. ‘Bound To Facial Plague’
13. ‘The Rope’ *
14. ‘Get This’ (Slipknot cover) *

* bonus tracks

Benighted’s line-up is as follows:

Julien Truchan (vocals)
Fabien Desgardins (guitars)
Emmanuel Dalle (guitars)
Pierre Arnoux (bass and backing vocals)
Kévin Paradis (drums)

An age-restricted music video was filmed for the track ‘Nails’. In addition, official lyric videos were created for the songs ‘Brutus’ and ‘Implore The Negative’. All three clips can also be accessed below.

Eighth studio record Necrobreed was released in February 2017 via Season Of Mist.

Promotional photograph by Anthony Dubois.