Pulverised Records proudly announces the seventh album from WOMBBATH

But our then drummer Jon Rudin’s decision to leave the band forced us to change our plans. It’s only once we found his replacement, former DEAD SHAPE FIGURE Antti Silventoinen, that we resumed our course.”

With ten tracks carefully sequenced with the help of former AMON AMARTH and close friend Anders Biazzi, Stuvemark says about the result that it has “the sound and vibe from Agma, yet it still turned out more evil and angrier, although I reckon this wasn’t exactly planned. Often when creating the output depends on where you are in life at the moment…  We all knew how good this album would be but I don’t think any of us actually understood that until we heard the final mix with everything on it.  It was a ‘cowabunga moment’! Every time I listen to it, it puts a smile on my face and I have butterflies in my belly. Death metal happiness!”

For the guitar player, there’s definitively only one WOMBBATH. “I would say the foundations were laid with Downfall Rising and we’ve been building upon it ever since. My main inspirations remain CARCASS, ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER and EDGE OF SANITY but there’s always nice additions being made, like harmonies, odd notes, violin etc. In a way, each album is an extension from the previous one and Beyond The Abyss is no exception”, with even greater contribution by von Wachenfeldt, not only on guitar but on violin as well, with an even greater attention to the symphonic element.

For Pettersson, it’s just the proof that they’re well aware of what their roots are, yet without forgetting we’re not living in 1993 anymore: “with this album, we wanted to push the progressive elements first displayed on Agma, but at the same time make the album our most old school since the early days of WOMBBATH. Where Agmawas fairly clean, Beyond The Abyss is dark, filthy and, in a way, more organic. With one foot in the early days of death metal and one foot in the future, Beyond The Abyss is the sound of us bringing our legacy forward.