MEMORIAM have released "At The Point Of No Return", the second single from Endgame, the British death metal veterans' sixth and final studio album. The record arrives on January 29, 2027 via Reaper Entertainment, and the new track is out now as a lyric video.
Where the opener "Nothing More To Say" dealt with the band's farewell, the new song turns outward, to a world that keeps repeating the same mistakes. It is about the cost of power: lives wrecked by decisions made far from any battlefield, and the moment when the chance to change course has already slipped away. War and remembrance have been at the heart of MEMORIAM since day one, and as the band near the end of their ten-year run, the theme carries extra weight.
Frontman Karl Willetts, formerly of BOLT THROWER, says the song grew out of a feeling he can no longer shake: watching the world head toward disaster while those with the power to stop it push on regardless, and hearing the same rhetoric again and again. "Another population is told to make sacrifices. Another generation is expected to fight," he says. Behind every casualty report, he adds, are people who had plans and someone waiting for them, until a decision made thousands of miles away took it all.
Willetts admits there is anger in the lyrics, but even more sadness for the lives lost and the futures destroyed. He also hears the band's own situation in the title: knowing Endgame is the last album, he wants "every word to count."
Russ Russell produced the album once again and Dan Seagrave painted the cover, closing two partnerships that go back to the band's beginnings. Dirk Verbeuren (MEGADETH) plays drums alongside Willetts, bassist Frank Healy and guitarist Scott Fairfax. Endgame will be out on CD, digital and vinyl, including a limited collector's edition.
'Endgame' tracklist:
- Nothing More To Say
- The Trench
- At The Point Of No Return
- March Of Time
- Another Battle Won
- The Frontline
- Close The Skies
- The Final War
- Endgame
- Psychological Scars (digipak bonus track)
- No Tyrants Survive (boxset bonus track)
- Damage Done (boxset bonus track)
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