[Cover photo credit to Stephanie Cabral]

Progressive Death Metal outfit DÅÅTH has emerged from its thirteen-year hiatus with a new album, The Deceivers, set for release May 3rd, 2024 via Metal Blade Records.

The Atlanta, Georgia-bred band has been through an overhaul in lineup under the supervision of founder/guitarist Eyal Levi. Importantly, DÅÅTH also still features vocalist Sean Zatorsky, who has fronted the band since 2007. Together they are now joined by Kerim “Krimh” Lechner on drums, Jesse Zuretti on orchestration and guitar, Rafael Trujillo on lead guitar, and David Marvuglio on bass.

Levi comments, “Now DÅÅTH is more orchestrated, more over the top. We have more melodies and they’re beautiful.” The nine tracks on the new album were produced by Levi, with Andrew Wade doing vocal production, John Douglass engineering, Jens Bogren mixing, and Tony Lindgren mastering.

Guest guitar solos are contributed across numerous tracks by Jeff Loomis (Nevermore, Arch Enemy), Mark Holcomb (Periphery), Dean Lamb (Archspire), Per Nilsson, (Scar Symmetry, Meshuggah), Spiro Dussias (Platonist), and Dan Sugarman (Ice Nine Kills), along with video game composer Mick Gordon (Doom Eternal) contributing sound design and synth to “Purified By Vengeance.”

The album title is the continuation of a theme that began with 2007‘s The Hinderers and continued with 2009‘s The Concealers.

Levi explains:

Those titles are about the outside world. They’re not about us. While they touch on the self-destruction and self-deception, we all occasionally fall victim to, this album is a scathing critique and exploration of certain societal elements. The deceivers and obstructers in life. Those who impede your progress through subterfuge and manipulation.

The single and video for “Hex Unending,” out now, displays that theme.

Zatorsky shares about the track:

It‘s about shedding skin, cleansing the old me; reinventing, and carving a new path vocally, physically, and mentally. This song needed to be front and center on the record.