Vomitory: Opus Mortis VIII – new album / Regorge In The Morgue – new video

Eight album by Sweden's death metallers VOMITORY, ‘Opus Mortis VIII’, has been released today, April 26th, 2011 via Metal Blade Records. The album, produced by Rikard Löfgren at Leon Music Studios, is said to offer diversity and dynamics that we haven’t quite heard from VOMITORY before. The limited edition of ‘Opus Mortis VIII’ features four bonus re-recorded VOMITORY classics from their first two albums. The album's artwork was created by Polish artist Lukasz Jaszak (“who pinpointed the band's artwork desires to the fullest with his skills”). Get your own copy of ‘Opus Mortis VIII’ here. The video for ‘Regorge In The Morgue’ was produced by SomeKindOfBear Media.

VOMITORY was formed in 1989 by guitarist Urban Gustafsson. While being a part of the phenomenon that was “the Swedish death metal scene”, the band's early and most important influences were SODOM, SLAYER, ENTHOMBED and NAPALM DEATH. VOMITORY's demo, which made its way through underground music channels, earned the band quite a following. Debut full-length album, ‘Raped In Their Own Blood’, came next in 1996 on Fadeless Records. Even more brutal and intense album, ‘Redemption’, followed via the same label three years later. Downgraded from quintet to quartet, with bass player Erik Rundqvist taking over the vocal duties as well, VOMITORY signed with Metal Blade Records and issued their third album, 2000's ‘Revelation Nausea’, with ‘Blood Rapture’ following two years later. Some excellent reviews, European tours and festival appearances later, the band came up with ‘Primal Massacre’ in 2004, the fourth VOMITORY record to be produced by Henrik Larrson. Guitarist Peter Östlund replaced Ulf Dalegren in 2005 as the band enlisted producer Rikard Löfgren for their next offering, 2007's ‘Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize’: “VOMITORY do not avoid death metal's limitations - they celebrate them - and they don’t run away from the grindcore stereotype of death metal on [this album]; they proudly embrace it, both lyrically and musically. That means insanely fast tempos; it means growling vocals and song titles like ‘Scavenging The Slaughtered’, ‘Eternal Trail Of Corpses’, ‘Cremation Ceremony’, and ‘Whispers From The Dead’,” wrote Alex Henderson for AllMusic Guide. In 2009, VOMITORY issued a 20-years celebration album ‘Carnage Euphoria’, considered their most varied and dynamic to date:

VOMITORY: The Carnage Rages On – courtesy of Metal Blade Records

VOMITORY features: Erik Rundqvist on bass and vocals, Urban Gustafsson on guitar, Peter Ostlund on lead guitar and Tobias Gustafsson on drums.