Septicflesh: Modern Primitive

"Modern Primitive" is the new album from Septicflesh, a breathtaking combination of symphonic and cinematic music with aggressive and catchy death metal. Picking up on the band's sonic evolution over the past decades, "Modern Primitive" proves to be more emotional, epic and heavier than ever. Septicflesh was founded in the early 90s as "Septic Flesh" in Greece by Spyridon Antoniou (a.k.a. Seth Siro Anton): Vocals/Bass, Christos Antoniou: Guitar and Sotirios Vagenas (a.k.a. Sotiris Anunnaki V.): Guitar/Clean vocals. A debut EP was released in 1991 under the title "Temple of The Lost Race". Their first album "Mystic Places of Dawn" was released in 1994, followed by "EΣΟΠΤΡΟΝ", which was released in 1995. With the release of "Ophidian Wheel" in 1997, a female soprano (Natalie Rassoulis) was introduced and the band evolved into a more symphonic style. "A Fallen Temple" (1998) went in the same musical direction. In 1999 "Revolution DNA" was released, followed by "Sumerian Daemons" in 2003, both albums produced by Fredrik Nordström (At The Gates, Opeth, In Flames). Although the band's popularity was growing, the band members decided to disband to focus on other personal projects and goals. But that wasn't the end of the story... After a reunion, the band returned in 2008 with the album "Communion", again with Fredrik Nordström at the helm of production. From this point on, the symphonic element (composed by Christos Antoniou, who has a master's degree in concert music) was fully realized in the structure of the songs. Collaboration with the Prague Filmharmonic Orchestra. "The Great Mass" (2011) followed with Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, Pain) as producer, "Titan" (2014) with Logan Mader (ex-Machine Head) as producer and "Codex Omega" (2017) with which the group's collaboration with Jens Bogren began, which continues to this day. This was followed in 2020 by the recording of the epic and fully orchestrated Live in Mexico entitled "Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX", on CD/LP/DVD/Blu-Ray. Now Septicflesh have teamed up with Nuclear Blast Records and are ushering in the next phase in the band's history with a new album. Once again, Jens Bogren is responsible for the bombastic mix and sound, while Seth Siro Anton - who is also responsible for the band's visual aesthetics and has worked for artists such as Nile, Paradise Lost or Moonspell - has designed a truly intense cover and over-the-top artwork for this release. The new songs impress with a multi-layered, dark and empowering atmosphere and are heavy and memorable. In addition to the ongoing collaboration with the Filmharmonic Orchestra Prague, the band has a full adult choir, a children's choir and a variety of ethnic instruments.