[Cover photo credit to Tim Hubbard]
“The Atrophied” is the latest single from US Death Metal band Monstrosity, hailing from the band’s Screams From Beneath The Surface album, set to arrive on March 13th, 2026, via Metal Blade Records. It delves into epic territory and inspired the band to go beyond their usual composition methods.
The album marks the band’s first release in seven years, and “The Atrophied,” is actually the first track that was written for the album.
The band’s drummer and songwriter Lee Harrison says:
‘The Atrophied’ contains all the hallmarks of a classic MONSTROSITY song. From the opening drum rolls and Mark Van Erp’s spiraling bass intro, it surges forward with ferocious blasting energy, then weaves through a dynamic landscape of devastating riffs and intricate rhythmic shifts. This was an important song for us to get right, and I feel the guys really pulled through with this one. Our new vocalist Ed Webb commands the storm, shifting seamlessly from guttural depths to razor sharp highs and lending the performance a gripping, almost cinematic intensity.
Matt Barnes unleashes chaotic and spiraling melodic runs that echo the band’s most iconic moments, with additional crushing guitar work by Justin Walker. I aimed to craft the lyrics as a haunting narrative of decay and collapse, perfectly framed by the forceful and punishing production from Audiohammer and Morrisound Studios. ‘The Atrophied’ delivers MONSTROSITY at our most direct and ferocious!”
Adds guitarist Matt Barnes:
‘The Atrophied’ came together through our usual working method, but it delivered an unexpected result in the end. Lee brought the song to the table in a stripped down, skeletal form. We spent a lot of time sending demos back and forth, adding transitions, tweaking riffs, changing a few notes… the usual. But something happened along the way. Once we finished writing it and everyone had their parts locked in, when we finally played it all together, it felt more like an epic saga than just another death metal song.
‘The Atrophied’ may be the most musically and emotionally complex song MONSTROSITY has ever recorded. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve had songs that were more complex in terms of pure technical nuts and bolts, real fretboard acrobatics, but those tracks are usually locked into one mood, one color. ‘The Atrophied’ for me, carries the feel of a 15-minute Rush or Iron Maiden epic, yet it’s tightly condensed, unpretentious, and, as always, unabashedly death metal.
MONSTROSITY w/ Bio-Cancer, Reject The Sickness, Deadwood:
4/18/2026 Metalstorm Festival – Luzern, CH
4/19/2026 Rockhouse – Salzburg, AT
4/21/2026 Vintage Industrial Bar – Zagreb, HR
4/22/2026 Alchemica Music Club – Bologna, IT
4/23/2026 L’Usine – Geneva, CH
4/25/2026 Brutal Swamp Saint – Omer, FR
4/28/2026 DVG – Kortrijk, BE
4/29/2026 Hall of Fame – Tilburg, NL
4/30/2026 Fluor – Amersfoort, NL
5/01/2026 Turock – Essen, DE
5/02/2026 F Haus – Jena, DE
w/ Bio-Cancer, Reject The Sickness:
5/03/2026 Bolko – Świdnica, PL
5/05/2026 Zaścianek – Krakow, PL
5/06/2026 Rude Boy – Bielsko-Biała, PL
5/07/2026 Pink Whale – Bratislava, SK
5/08/2026 Rock Cafe – Jablunkov, CZ
5/09/2026 Colosseum – Košice, SK
5/10/2026 Fabryka Kultury Zgrzyt – Lublin, PL
