For more than twenty-seven years, Paganizer have been delivering the epitome of Swedish death metal. Album after album, the band has unleashed a relentless barrage of genre-defining tales of the macabre. Led by the indefatigable riff machine Rogga Johansson, Paganizer show no signs of slowing their assault on the world’s sanity as they prepare to release their fourteenth full-length studio album, one of their strongest and most consistent offerings to date, As Mankind Rots.
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Right from the opening title track, As Mankind Rots fulfills all hopes and expectations. After all these years, the Paganizer sound remains steadfastly exhilarating and irresistible.
From the dark, subterranean atmosphere of “Hollow” to the headbanging rhythms of “A Testament To Madness” and the soul-consuming horror of “Afterworld,” As Mankind Rots captures Paganizer at their absolute best. Concluding with a trip back in time to “Vanans Makt,” featuring guest vocals from Bulten of Lastkaj 14, this album is a stunning expression of cemetery-walking, catacomb-dwelling, flesh-eating death metal.
With grim and ghastly artwork by Ivan Bragin (The Gathering, October Tide, Woods Of Ypres) and immaculate mixing and mastering by long-time collaborator Ronnie Björnström, As Mankind Rots brings out every crack of breaking bone and every stench of eternal decay.
As Mankind Rots will be released by Xtreem Music on February 5, available on CD, 12” LP, Cassette, and Digital formats, essential listening for all disciples of death.
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