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New Zealand-based progressive death metal artisans BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS are pleased to unleash their latest single, “Cafuné.” The track comes by way of the band’s fiery new concept album, The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me, set for release on October 10th via Prosthetic Records.

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Notes vocalist Stace Fifield, “The record traces the psychological unraveling of a person consumed by unrequited love. As their fixation deepens, affection mutates into obsession, delusion, and violence. The final revelation of the person’s identity reframes the story as a gendered descent into madness — culminating in a brutal, fatal union under the guise of love. This revelation is given as a twist to the listener/reader to further accentuate the poetic effort of the lyrics and story.”
 
He further elaborates on today’s single, “Cafuné is a poetic ode to new love, expressed through confrontational progressive death metal. That clash between intimacy and extremity is deliberate — it introduces an album that begins with tenderness but spirals into fixation, violence, and ruin. ‘Cafuné’ is the lit fuse before the bomb, the first glimpse of a story that holds more weight, more danger, and more complexity than it seems. Are you listening?”

What does obsession do to your mind? When you fixate on one particular person, place, or event, it clouds your thoughts, pollutes your feelings, and takes over your very being. You lose yourself and succumb to your basest instincts to pursue this obsession at all costs. BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS channels the extremes of a psychotic break into an ambitious sonic tableau of intricately airtight metal, eerie production, and insidiously memorable screams. Set to this pummeling soundtrack, the New Zealand quintet implants an immersive story into the core of their fifth full-length offering, The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me.
 
The group has quietly sharpened their attack since emerging in 2010. A series of fan favorite releases bulldozed the way for 2023’s Rejecting Obliteration. Beyond praise from Everything Is Noise, Knotfest, Echoes And Dust, and more, Distorted Sound awarded the latter a 9/10 rating going on to promise, “Strap yourselves in, it’s quite the ride.” Invisible Oranges touted Rejecting Obliteration among “The Best Heavy Metal Of 2023 So Far,” while Metalsucks highlighted the collective as one of “Five New Zealand Metal Bands You Should Know.” Moreover, they have clocked over one million total streams and counting.

BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS’ The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me’ will be released digitally and in CD format.

The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me Track Listing:

1. Arrows of Golden Light
2. Cafuné
3. Red
4. Compulsion
5. The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me
6. Snow Angel
7. Black Orchids
8. Totem
9. 600 Milligrams
10. Coalescence (Feat. Hera)

BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS will return to US soil this Fall with Volcandra. The journey runs from October 10th in Los Angeles, California through November 1st in Las Vegas, Nevada. Check out the tour dates below.

BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS w/ Volcandra:

10/10/2025 The Virgil – Los Angeles, CA
10/11/2025 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA
10/12/2025 Transplants Brewing – Palmdale, CA
10/14/2025 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
10/15/2025 The Dip – Redding, CA
10/16/2025 The High-Water Mark – Portland, OR
10/17/2025 Substation – Seattle, WA
10/18/2025 Ray’s Golden Lion – Richland, WA
10/19/2025 The Shredder – Boise, ID
10/20/2025 Aces High Saloon – Salt Lake City, UT
10/22/2025 The Crypt – Denver, CO
10/23/2025 1867 Bar – Lincoln, NE
10/24/2025 Underground Music Venue – Minneapolis, MN
10/25/2025 Club Garibaldi – Milwaukee, WI
10/26/2025 Reggies Music Joint – Chicago, IL
10/28/2025 MiniBar – Kansas City, MO
10/29/2025 89th Street – Oklahoma City, OK
10/30/2025 Tumbleroot Brewery And Distillery – Santa Fe, NM
10/31/2025 Ground Zero Studios – Phoenix, AZ
11/01/2025 The Griffin – Las Vegas, NV