BOTH DELIRIOUSLY MELODIC AND MERCILESSLY BRUTAL: SARCATOR RELEASE THIRD ALBUM “SWARMING ANGELS & FLIES”, VIA CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS; AVAILABLE NOW ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS & AT ALL RETAILERS
Both deliriously melodic and mercilessly brutal: SARCATOR release third album “Swarming Angels & Flies”, via Century Media Records.
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The year 2025 could not start better for blackened thrash metal: Swedish rising force Sarcator are releasing their third album “Swarming Angels & Flies”, via Century Media Records. After announcing the signing to the label last year back in July, the young band released three striking, powerful, and raw singles that kept the anticipation for this record high. Now, “Swarming Angels & Flies” is available in its full length. Across eight, grotesque and utterly venomous tracks, the band have deftly blended the wide-eyed extremity of their debut album with the inspirational musicality of their second work “Alkahest”, while playing everything with more intensity than ever before. It is a record that surely raises the bar for face-flaying extreme metal. Both deliriously melodic and mercilessly brutal – “Swarming Angels & Flies” is the most dangerously potent record the Swedens have made to date.
The album is available for purchase here.
Listen to the album on your favorite DSP here.
Singer and guitarist Mateo Tervonen shares about the album:
“If anyone has ever wondered how our intensity playing live would sound captured on a record, this is the one. There is no question that it’s our most intense, brutal and rawest creation yet, so those who enjoy those elements of our sound will not be disappointed! We worked a lot on the dynamics, so we are sure that this album will have something for everyone. It’s not really a genre album and we like to keep it that way.”
With the tracks “Swarming Angels & Flies”, “Comet of End Times” and “Where the Void Begins” released prior to the album launch, focus track “The Deep Ends” holds a special place on this record, showcasing Sarcator’s skill in terms of songwriting with the track sounding both raw and yet defined by each second while combining both worlds of rock and extreme metal.
Listen to “The Deep Ends” here.
The band shares about “The Deep Ends”:
“‘The Deep Ends’ stands as a strong representative of the traditional rock essence of our sound that we incorporated with our previous album (Alkahest 2022). It’s all about the groove and rhythm in this one, hand in hand with epic-driven arrangements. Everything with our own blackened edge to it that has been the common ground for every SARCATOR song so far. With this one we wanted to push everything forward in combining traditional rock music with extreme metal vocals and expression and of course trying to make it sound organically together.”
Sarcator “Swarming Angels & Flies”
Tracklist:
1. Burning Choir
2. Comet of End Times
3. Swarming Angels & Flies
4. The Deep Ends
5. Where the Void Begins
6. The Undercurrent
7. Closure
8. Unto Sepulchres
9. Dogfight (cover version – originally by Anti Cimex)*
10. The Black Vomit (cover version – originally by Sarcófago)*
11. Torture (cover verison – originally by Sadus)
*Bonus track on Ltd. CD Jewelcase in O-Card only
“Swarming Angels & Flies” is available in the following formats:
- CD Jewelcase (in O-Card) w/ 11 tracks
- Ltd. Purple LP (300x copies!) w/ 8 tracks & 2-page LP insert
- Black LP w/ 8 tracks & 2-page LP insert
- CD Jewelcase (US Version) w/ 8 tracks
Sarcator LIVE
Sarcator will be having two album release shows to fully bring their new record alive on stage. The first show will be February 7th, 2025, at Bar Brooklyn in Stockholm, Sweden. The show will be supported by the Swedish death metal band Impurity.
The second show, which was only announced recently, will happen just one day later, February 8th, at Rock In in Oslo, Norway and will be supported by Eternity. This release show actually marks the band’s first live performance in Norway – it will surely be a special one.
Additionally, Sarcator have lined up festival appearances in Germany and Sweden for this summer with more live dates to be announced soon.
Live 2025
07.02.2025 Stockholm (Sweden) – Bar Brooklyn (Album release show)
08.02.2025 Oslo (Norway) – Rock In (Album release show)
04.-07.06.2025 Sölvesborg (Sweden) – Sweden Rock Festival
06.-07.06.2025 Essen (Germany) – Battle Cry Fest
25.-26.07.2025 Freißenbüttel (Germany) – Burning Q Festival
18.-20.09.2025 Schrobenhausen (Germany) – Metal im Woid
20.09.2025 Hamm (Germany) – Ragers Elite Festival XI
About Sarcator
At a juvenile age of 14-20, Sarcator released their first demo tape, “Visions of Purgatory”, via the American label Redefining Darkness Records in 2019. Just two years later the quadrumvirate got nominated for best rock/metal album for the Swedish music award P3 Guld with their 2020’s self-titled debut release for the same label. After releasing their 2nd album, “Alkahest”, via Black Lion Records in 2022, Sarcator finally got a proper chance to play live, captivating crowds with their intense, blackened live shows. With their current line-up fully committed to the band despite their young age (all members are between 19 and 25) it was time for them to record their 3rd album, which still features previous guitarist Emil Eriksson. Shortly after signing a new worldwide deal with Century Media Records and heading out on a debut European tour supporting Hellripper and Cloak, Sarcator will be releasing “Swarming Angels & Flies” on January 17th, 2025. With plenty of live activity in support of the upcoming album, Sarcator are already at the forefront of an emergent, highly determined new generation of Scandinavian extreme metal bands and ready to take the rest of the world by storm soon too…
Sarcator Line Up
Sarcator are:
Mateo Tervonen – Vocals, Guitar
Felix Lindkvist – Bass
Leo Buchalle – Guitar
Jesper Rosén – Drums
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