More Insane - 2024 US Prosthetic label Red vinyl 10-track LP

New York-based death metal greats Undeath emerge from festering slime with their new album, More Insane, for Prosthetic Records. Previous album It’s Time… To Rise from the Grave caught a wave of acclaim on TheNeedleDrop’s YouTube channel, earned Best New Music from Pitchfork, and, most impressively, rocketed to the top of Decibel Magazine’s Top 40 Albums of 2022, along with a coveted cover feature. On More Insane, Undeath—featuring Kyle Beam (guitars), Alexander Jones (vocals), Tommy Wall (bass), Jared Welch (guitars), and Matt Browning (drums)—feast on the rotten flesh of brutality, complexity, and depravity. Singles “Brandish the Blade,” “Disputatious Malignancy,” and the title track are imbued with death metal’s immortal soul but possess Undeath’s inimitable energy, pit-friendly hooks, and work-hardened ethos.

“We put more pressure on ourselves than anyone else—it’s all internal,” says Jones. “We always try to one-up ourselves. There’s exterior pressure for sure, but we ignore it. Ultimately, we’re just big fans of our band. We know what we want to hear from ourselves, so we’re always making music we’d be stoked to listen to as Undeath fans.”

“The songwriting has been streamlined a lot since Lesions,” Beam adds. “Even though I wrote [for this album] on the road, most of the songs were written at home in my chair—I just ripped them out. I’m trying to get closer to tracing the line of metal from the mid-’70s to now. More to the point, if you’ve never heard us before and see us live, you can take something away from it. We want people to remember the songs. That’s important to us.”

1. Dead From Beyond
2. More Insane
3. Brandish The Blade
4. Disputatious Malignancy
5. Sutured For War
6. Cramped Caskets (Necrology)
7. Bounty Hunter
8. Wailing Cadavers
9. Disattachment of a Prophylactic in the Brain
10. Bones Clattering in the Cave