Canadian death metal innovators GORGUTS will enter the studio around March 2026 to begin recording their long-awaited new album, the follow-up to 2013's groundbreaking "Colored Sands." The wait of over a decade has made this one of the most anticipated releases in the technical and avant-garde death metal community, and the announcement has sent ripples of excitement through the extreme metal underground worldwide.
Guitarist and vocalist Luc Lemay recently spent three days at bassist Colin Marston's studio in Pennsylvania. Marston is a towering figure in the avant-garde metal world, known for his work in KRALLICE, BEHOLD... THE ARCTOPUS, and DYSRHYTHMIA, as well as his engineering and mastering work at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves studio for countless experimental and extreme metal projects including IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, LITURGY, and MORBID ANGEL. The sessions yielded pre-production demos for four new songs intended for the upcoming album, and the music has reportedly been completed for some time.
Lemay admitted he struggled to find creative inspiration for years, seeking "a new aesthetic" and "a clearer vision" before the ideas finally clicked. He has always been drawn to concept records, and it took him a long time to find the right topic for this one -- but just before the band's recent touring with DEATH TO ALL, he stumbled upon a concept that deeply inspired him. With the creative direction now firmly in place, the band enters the studio with confidence and purpose.
GORGUTS' discography represents some of the most forward-thinking music in death metal history. From the raw Quebecois death metal of "Considered Dead" and "The Erosion Of Sanity" to the revolutionary dissonance of "Obscura" in 1998 -- an album that essentially created its own subgenre and inspired an entire movement of dissonant death metal bands including ULCERATE, PORTAL, and DEATHSPELL OMEGA -- GORGUTS have consistently pushed boundaries that lesser bands never knew existed. Their last full-length, "Colored Sands," was hailed as a masterpiece by nearly every major publication, and the 2016 EP "Pleiades' Dust" only deepened the anticipation.