Neues Album von WRETCHED!
With Decay, the decade-long wait for new Wretched music is finally over, the dozen songs worth every moment of anticipation. The first LP since 2014′s Cannibal, Decay sees the boundary-pushing lineup breaking past defined walls of their four previous releases. “We’ve had a lot of time to grow and reflect in the time between our last album our Decay,” says drummer Marshall Wieczorek. “Wretched is doing what Wretched always does, and that’s exploring our environment and leaving room for ourselves to try different things. To sum things up, the new album is DYNAMIC. We go here, we go there, we go everywhere. There is no shortage of groove, heaviness, speed, melodicism, prettiness, and sadness.”
For the last two years, Charlotte, North Carolina’s lauded metal monsters worked on the songs that would populate Decay. The result is a conceptual masterpiece that blends haunting melodies with progressive complexity. This fifth album, which is a prequel to 2010′s Beyond the Gate, delves into existential themes, D&D-inspired mythology, and personal loss.
“Decay is 100% a concept album,” confirms vocalist Billy Powers. “Beyond the Gate had an element this record shares, the talisman. I always knew there was more story there and was very excited to join up with the guys again to put that in motion. The first track I wrote was “The Golden Tide.” I had no idea where I was going to take story in connection to BTG until I typed the first line of the song. ‘They began in the dark.’ After that, the lyrics poured out of my mind and by the end of it I realized that this story takes place many years before the content of BTG.”
