USURPRESS Release Third Studio Album ‘The Regal Tribe’
September 23rd, 2016
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Uppsala, Sweden-based death / sludge metal band Usurpress issued third full-length studio album The Regal Tribe on September 23rd, 2016 through Agonia Records.
The outing has been made available for streaming in its entirety through YouTube and can be accessed below.
Vocalist Stefan Pettersson commented: “We decided early on to discard the traditional way of songwriting / arranging and compose The Regal Tribe one piece at the time, starting with the first riff in the first song and ending with the last riff in the tenth song. That way we hoped to avoid the album becoming repetitive and stale and instead more fluent and powerful. Listening back to the finished album, I’m convinced we did the right thing. This is the album we have always sought to do.
“Although we are very proud of all our previous works, we never look back. Dwelling on the past does not interest us at all. We started to write The Regal Tribe a couple of weeks after Ordained was released and we started to draw up the blueprints for our next album before we started to record The Regal Tribe. This is how we do things, we don’t wait for inspiration, we get inspiration from creating.”
The Regal Tribe was recorded during September and October 2016, and produced by Lawrence Mackrory. Cover artwork duties fell to Dutch artist Marald van Haasteren.
Following the recording of the album, original drummer and co-founder Calle Lönnberg left the band and was replaced by Mathias “Matte” Modin (Firespawn / ex-Dark Funeral / ex-Defleshed).
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The track listing is as follows:
01. ‘Beneath The Starless Skies’
02. ‘The One They Call The Usurpress’
03. ‘Across The Dying Plains’
04. ‘The Mortal Tribes’
05. ‘The Halls Of Extinction’
06. ‘Throwing The Gift Away’
07. ‘Behold The Forsaken’
08. ‘On A Bed Of Straw’
09. ‘The Sin That Is Mine’
10. ‘In The Shadow Of The New Gods’
Usurpress’ recording line-up was as follows:
Stefan Pettersson (vocals)
Påhl Sundström (guitar)
Daniel Ekeroth (bass)
Calle Lönnberg (drums)
An official lyric video was created for the song ‘Across The Dying Plains’, which can be viewed below.
Second studio record Ordained was released in October 2014 via Doomentia Records.
