DESPISED ICON Sign Album Contract With Nuclear Blast Records
April 5th, 2016
Montreal, Québec, Canada-based deathcore group Despised Icon have signed an album contract with Nuclear Blast Records, revealing this development on April 12th, 2016.
Despised Icon’s fifth full-length studio album Beast will be released by the label on on July 22nd, 2016.
The band issued the following statement: “It’s been seven years since our last record and our batteries are fully recharged. The O.G. line-up is back and the new shit hits hard. You’ll hear sounds of our older slammin’ death metal days blended with the speed and technicality of our latest records. Cheers to everyone that has stood by us after all these years. Can’t wait to unleash the Beast.”
Nuclear Blast’s head of retail Roy Culver added: “I signed Despised Icon to Century Media back in 2004 after hearing their debut record Consumed By Your Poison (2002). The band perfected the mix of ferocious, technical death metal with a modern take on hardcore and their first record for the label, The Healing Process (2005), broadened the minds of a whole new generation of metal heads. I love these guys and couldn’t be happier to be working with them again here at Nuclear Blast. The Icon is back!”
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Despised Icon are;
Alex Erian (vocals)
Steve Marois (vocals)
Ben Landreville (guitar)
Eric Jarrin (guitar)
Seb Piche (bass)
Alex Pelletier (drums)
Yannick St-Amand (samples / guitar)
Despised Icon issued fourth full-length studio album Day Of Mourning in 2009.
