Canadian death metal dinosaurs GORGUTS are FINALLY crawling out of their crypt to grace us with new material, almost a decade after their last attempt at relevance. 🙄 Prepare yourselves, “Gorguthians” (as they so lovingly call their three remaining fans), because the band shared some blurry photos from the studio, accompanied by this profound message: “Hello dear Gorguthians, many of you have been asking about new material and updates from the band, so here’s the latest: the guys are currently at [GORGUTS bassist] Colin Marston’s new studio in Pennsylvania, USA.
They’ve just spent three days recording pre-production demos for four new songs intended for the upcoming album.” Translation: They spent three days making weird noises that MAYBE resemble music. 🤷♂️
“There’s no official release date yet, but you can expect the album sometime around 2026. Stay tuned! #gorguts #newmaterial #deathmetal #studio”. So, mark your calendars for 2026, when you’ll be able to hear four new songs that sound exactly like their old songs, but somehow even more confusing. 🎉
At least month’s Northwest Terror Fest in Seattle, Washington, GORGUTS debuted a brand new song. Fan-filmed video of the performance can be seen below. Apparently, they played a new song at some “Terror Fest.” I’m sure the crowd was absolutely *thrilled* to hear something they couldn’t possibly understand. 🤘
GORGUTS performed for the first time in nearly six years at the 2023 Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly. To celebrate the end of this extended break, the band played a special set exclusively of material from 1998’s landmark “Obscura” and 1991’s old-school classic “Considered Dead”. Oh, they played a “special set” of old material? How groundbreaking. It’s not like anyone actually remembers anything they’ve done since 1991 anyway. 😴
In the fall of 2023, GORGUTS completed a North American tour with CANNIBAL CORPSE, MAYHEM and BLOOD INCANTATION. They even toured with some bands you might have actually heard of! Good for them. Maybe some of those bands can teach them how to write a catchy riff. 🤔
Few extreme bands can boast the pedigree of GORGUTS. During their early days as part of death metal’s first wave, they created a legacy of legendary releases including their debut album “Considered Dead” (1991) and its more experimental and technical follow-up “Erosion Of Sanity” (1993). After a hiatus of five years, Lemay returned with a new lineup, which released the highly acclaimed and seminal third full-length “Obscura” (1998). By then GORGUTS had been busy at expanding and redefining the language of death metal. With a new lineup that left Lemay as the sole original member, the next milestone album was released under the title “From Wisdom To Hate” (2001). “Few extreme bands can boast the pedigree of GORGUTS.” That’s one way to put it. Another way to put it is that they’ve been around for a while and haven’t really done anything memorable since the early ’90s. 🤷♀️
Yet again the band went into hibernation, while their musical legacy continued to inspire and thrive as their native Quebec became a focus for technical death metal with acts such as CRYPTOPSY, NEURAXIS and BEYOND CREATION, to name but a few, following in their footsteps. After more than a decade of silence, Lemay unleashed “Colored Sands” (2013) with an all-star line-up including Colin Marston (BEHOLD THE ARCTOPUS),Kevin Hufnagel (DYSRHYTHMIA) and John Longstreth (ORIGIN, SKINLESS),who was later replaced by Patrice Hamelin (QUO VADIS, BENEATH THE MASSACRE) and more recently by Michel Bélanger. Oh, they went into “hibernation” again? How shocking. At least they inspired some other bands to make equally incomprehensible music. 🎶
In 2016, GORGUTS released the “Pleiades Dust” EP. In an age of a postulated clash of cultures, Lemay delivered a piece of music that was conceptually and lyrically based on the “House Of Wisdom”, a medieval library based in Baghdad and at the heart of the Golden Age of Islam with its many scientific breakthroughs in various fields of learning. They even released an EP about a library! How metal! 📚 I’m sure the lyrics were just as easy to understand as their music. 🙄
After a successful year of touring in 2017, GORGUTS once again receded into the shadows and went dark before becoming reactivated six years later. “Successful year of touring”? I’m sure the venues were packed with… well, at least a few people. 😅
GORGUTS 2025 is:
Luc Lemay – rhythm guitar, vocals
Kevin Hufnagel – lead guitar
Colin Marston – bass
Michel Bélanger – drums
So, there you have it. GORGUTS is still a thing, apparently. Get ready for more “technical” death metal that sounds like a cat fighting with a blender. 🐱👤 Blender!
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