Published: March 6, 2025
Alongside the single, another fiercely entertaining music video has been released, which you can watch below
British death metal legends, BENEDICTION, have released yet another single from their upcoming new studio album, Ravage Of Empires, which is due to be released on April 4, 2025, via Nuclear Blast Records.
'Crawling Over Corpses' is a ferocious up-tempo banger, which transports the band's old school roots into the here and now while destroying everything that stands in its way. Dave Ingram's primal growls have never sounded more vicious, and the rhythm section fires on all cylinders with a barrage of riffs and massive breakdowns. Alongside the single, another fiercely entertaining music video has been released, which you can watch below.
Ravage Of Empires is available for pre-order on CD, LP and as digital album.
BENEDICTION - Ravage Of Empires
4th April 2025
01 A Carrion Harvest
02 Beyond the Veil (of the Grey Mare)
03 Genesis Chamber
04 Deviant Spine
05 Engines of War
06 The Finality of Perpetuation
07 Crawling over Corpses
08 In the Dread of the Night
09 Drought of Mercy
10 Psychosister
11 Ravage Of Empires
AVAILABLE FORMATS
Black LP
Transparent Petrol Green LP
Orange w/ Sky Blue Splatter LP
Jewelcase CD
Digital Album
"Sometimes They Come Back" is not just the title of a horror movie based on a macabre tale by Stephen King, it is also a summary of what happened to UK death metal veterans BENEDICTION, yet you might like to add a "better than ever before". While never officially disbanded, 2020's Scriptures, the group's eighth studio album achieved what is usually not an easy feat. It connected well with classics like Transcend the Rubicon (1993) and its immediate and memorable songwriting, the heavy-as-a-brick Grind Bastard (1998), and also saw legendary vocalist Dave Ingram return with his merciless roar and knack for morbid, twisted lyrics. After two albums with Dave Hunt on vocals, Scriptures was BENEDICTION's first record in over a decade impressing with aggressive up-tempo attacks like 'Iterations of I' and 'Rabid Carnality' or the neck-breaking mid-tempo barrage of 'Stormcrow', songs that became live staples alongside 'evergreens' such as 'I Bow to None', 'Magnificat', 'Subconscious Terror' or 'Vision in the Shroud' in no time. With Scriptures, BENEDICTION even almost cracked Germany's top ten by entering at a phenomenal #11 of the Official German Charts showing that the death metal veterans founded 1989 in Birmingham, England, offered an extremely well received sonic catharsis when due to the pandemic, people were locked down and pissed off.
With their brilliant new record Ravage Of Empires in tow, founding members and guitarists Darren Brookes and Peter Rew, longtime vocalist Dave Ingram, drummer Giovanni Durst, and Nik Sampson (bass) will travel far and wide once more. Already confirmed are the Tales of the Triple Death Tour with Jungle Rot and Master kicking off on album release date as well as confirmed appearances at Wacken Open Air and Maryland Deathfest.
TALES OF THE TRIPLE DEATH...
BENEDICTION
W/ JUNGLE ROT & MASTER
04.04.25 DE Hamburg Kultur Palast
05.04.25 DE Bad Oeynhausen Druckerei
06.04.25 NL Sittard Volt
07.04.25 BE Kortrijk DVG
08.04.25 LU Esch-Belval Rockhal
09.04.25 DE Mannheim 7er Club
10.04.25 DE Obertraubling Event Hall Airport
11.04.25 DE Geiselwind Eventzentrum Strohofer
12.04.25 AT Salzburg Rockhouse
13.04.25 DE Jena F-Haus
15.04.25 DE Berlin Lido
16.04.25 DE Essen Turock
17.04.25 CH Aarau KIFF
More confirmed dates for 2025:
21.05.25 US Brooklyn, NY The Meadows
22.05.25 US Baltimore, MD Maryland Deathfest
21.06.25 PT Beja Nada Fest
25.06.25 CZ Spalene Porici Basinfirefest
26.-27.07.25 ES Cangas De Morrazo Kanekas Metalfest
30.07-02.08.25 DE Wacken Wacken Festival
01.08.25 DE Loebnitz Full Rewind Fest
