Québec City's OUTRE-TOMBE will release their fourth full-length, "Fléau des âmes", on January 29, 2027 through Dying Victims Productions, on CD and vinyl LP. It is the band's first album for the German label and their first in six years. The opening track, "Hantise", premiered today on the website of the German magazine Deaf Forever.
OUTRE-TOMBE formed in 2009 as a thrash trio. Once they grew into a quartet, they moved to old-school death metal rooted in the classics of the '80s and '90s, with lyrics built around tales of the macabre. Three albums followed in steady succession: "Répurgation" (2015), "Nécrovortex" (2018) and "Abysse mortifère" (2021). The band toured Europe in 2022, but the fourth record took its time.
According to the label, the touchstones are still classic DISMEMBER, AUTOPSY and ENTOMBED, but "Fléau des âmes" adds a streak of Dutch doom in the vein of old ASPHYX, PENTACLE and THANATOS. The label also calls it the band's heaviest-sounding production so far: where earlier recordings leaned raw, this one is said to balance dirt and clarity, and the quartet play with a looser, more swaggering feel than before. The band say they are eager to bring the new songs to European stages.
The album runs nine tracks, opening with "Hantise" and closing with "Fureur sacrificielle".
Tracklist:
- Hantise
- Orbe Noir
- Cercueil Visceral
- Fléau des âmes
- Eviscératombe
- Gravé dans la chair
- Zygomorphe
- Légion funèbre
- Fureur sacrificielle
Order & Stream "Fléau des âmes": Dying Victims Productions
Follow OUTRE-TOMBE: Bandcamp