ASPHYX Announces New Studio Album ‘Necroceros’

27th October 2020 Rob Cella 994 Views

Legendary Dutch death doom elite ASPHYX finally returns with their new, 10^th full-length studio album entitled Necroceros. The new album was recorded at Tom Meier’s Tom Meier Studio and at Paul Baayens’ The Mörserstudio, then it was mixed and mastered by Sebastian “Seeb” Levermann at Greenman Studios. Necroceros, which once again features front cover artwork by Axel Hermann, will be available worldwide on January 22^nd, 2021 via

Century Media Records.

ASPHYX frontman Martin van Drunen states, “The first recordings for ‘Necroceros’ started somewhere in November 2019. Mainly just rough ideas. We hired Tom’s studio for a couple of jam-sessions so we could record as soon as we thought something had potential. We finished about 6/7 songs, but after a few listenings we decided there had still quite some work to be done.

After the 3 previous albums and this one being ASPHYX’s 10^th official full studio record we were very well aware that the standard had to be incredibly high. Our advantage was that for the first time we had a steady line-up. Since “Incoming Death” we were damned good “worked in” together, one “felt” what the other wanted or where he was music-wise going. With Paul having tons of riffs on the shelves, the earlier takes and the unexpected rapidly spreading Covid-19 outbreak and thus all our gigs being canceled one after the other, we booked Tom once more for a bunch of jam-recordings. Which turned out marvelously…

It took 2 weekends to finally arrange all songs and tape the drum-tracks. Going completely berserk while playing and being totally satisfied with the variety, rawness, brutality and dynamics of each particular track, we were 100% certain that we were heading in the right direction.

Long before all the above was happening, I already had introduced “Necroceros” as a working title. It came out spontaneously, sounded powerful and since we used the word “Death” in every release-title, so did “Necro”. The idea was a sci-fi fantasy entity on an eternal course, existing only to devour planets, turning universes into meaningless voids. And while the boys were laying guitars and bass over the drums I searched and wrote the themes and lyrics for every single track. And there we were…

To mix with Seeb was a shot in the dark, but he had told me one of his wishes was to ever be able to mix a Death Metal album for a band like ASPHYX. And since we wanted a fresh input, we gave him a chance by letting Seeb do a test and it fused simply excellent.

As always, we passed the working title on to Axel Hermann to skizz about and let him throw his morbid imagination over it with detailed bits and pieces. And once more he didn’t let us down with another brilliant masterpiece.

And here we are. Something old, something new, something krushing, something sparkling, something alcoholic, something genius, but all very, very ASPHYX!”

The first single and video for the forthcoming album, along with more details about Necroceros, will be released on November 6^th, at the start of the album’s pre-order campaign. Stay tuned for more details.

ASPHYX’s previous and highly acclaimed studio album Incoming Death was released on September 2016 and entered the official sales charts in various European countries as follows: Germany: # 30, Switzerland: # 67 and Belgium (Wallonia): # 78. Watch the music videos for “Forerunners Of The Apocalypse“, “Candiru” and “Incoming Death” and purchase Incoming Death HERE.

ASPHYX TOUR DATES:

05.12.2020 Speyer (Germany) – Halle 101 Musikkulturzentrum

05.02.2021 Göttingen (Germany) – Junges Theater

06.02.2021 Rostock (Germany) – Mau Club

06.03.2021 Zaragoza (Spain) – C. C. Valdefierro

03.04.2021 Oslo (Norway) – Inferno Metal Festival

07.05.2021 Plozévet (France) – Courts of Chaos Festival

22.05.2021 Vienna (Austria) – Vienna Metal Meeting

12.06.2021 Hauptmannsgrün (Germany) – Chronical Moshers Open Air

29.07.2021 Tolmin (Slovenia) – MetalDays

12.08.2021 Jaromer (Czech Republic) – Brutal Assault

13.08.2021 Schlotheim (Germany) – Party.San Open Air