CATALYST (2018) is a metal band hailing from Belgium, The Land of Waas (BE) with current members living in Hulst (NL), Sint-Niklaas (BE), Lennik (BE). Their songs inspired by the many political, economical and ecological fears and failures of today’s society.

The band is currently wrapping up the recording of their first full length. Following the release of their EP ‘Catalyst’ in 2022, we will be presented with new work in 2023. The record will be called ‘The Age of Rocketeers’ and will feature 8 new songs. The recording and mixing of these songs took place at Project Zero Studio situated in Laakdal. After having worked before with producer Andre Six in Brussels for the EP, the band opted for the countryside this time where they mostly isolate themselves for 3 weeks to record the album together with Yarne Heylen (CARNATION, Project Zero, Y-productions).

“The new record will contain songs that are both darker and more melodic than what we have released in the past. Each individual band member has transcended themselves by putting on a formidable performance in the studio. The album title is a reference to the interconnection between power, data and capital … and the hobby that some of its holders enjoy. Catalyst will, as always, bash established values with socially critical as well as introspective hits.” (Jeroen Van Ranst, vocals)

The release of ‘The Age of Rocketeers’ is scheduled for September 2023 followed by an extensive fall tour. However, those who don’t want to wait that long can sign up for an exclusive tryout of the band  on March 18 in the deserted village of Doel. Tickets are limited! Available here: https://catalystbelgium.com/merchandise/

For full list and future shows:  https://catalystbelgium.com/upcoming-gigs/

Members:
Jeroen Van Ranst – Vocals
Philip Pedraza – lead guitars
Aäron Onghena – guitars
Ben Onghena – Bass, Vocals
Sam Bogaert – drums

Recently French technical death metal quartet CATALYST released their second album, “A Different Painting For A New World” through Non Serviam Records.
 
Today the band unveils the official video for the title track. “We’re beyond thrilled to share with you our biggest work to date regarding our music videos, with the eponymous track ‘A Different Painting For A New World’!”, comment CATALYST.

“A Different Painting For A New World” is available as digipak CD, 2LP gatefold and digital. Order your copy below:
 
CD: https://www.non-serviam-records.com/products/catalyst-a-different-painting-for-a-new-world-digipak
VINYL: https://www.non-serviam-records.com/collections/vinyl/products/catalyst-a-different-painting-for-a-new-world 
Bandcamp: https://non-serviam-records.bandcamp.com/album/a-different-painting-for-a-new-world

“A Different Painting For A New World”, which was produced by HK Krauss at Vamacara Studio (Loudblast, Sinsaneum, Dagoba, among others), brings you to enigmatic field of brutality and epicness.
 
The original story of “the Catalyst”, vital core character of the band’s concept, is being carried through these 10 brand new tracks. As a “concept band”, CATALYST tells an original story of a universe brought to life by 9 Lords, originally protecting its integrity, but now corrupted by the almighty Creator. In this new chapter, the Catalyst now needs to purify that world, contaminated by the Creator’s madness and chaos. It tells the birth of a better world through destruction, but also about the battle of two entities fighting for different beliefs.
 
The stunning artwork was created by the French visionary Above Chaos (Meshuggah, Moonsorrow, etc.).

“A Different Painting For A New World” Track Listing:
1. Gathering Of New Forces
2. To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate
3. The Last Warning
4. Worms and Locusts
5. Arise Of The Anathema
6. Paragon Of Devastation
7. Behold Thy Purification
8. Peripeteia
9. The Catalyst’s End
10. A Different Painting For A New World

More about “A Different Painting For A New World”
Worms and Locusts” official video: https://youtu.be/34fXQlExIr4
“To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate” official video: https://youtu.be/MKnKNlPLhXs
“Paragon Of Devastation” official video: https://youtu.be/tV-XmIBy9QU

Founded in 2017 by Jules Kicka, CATALYST is a 4-piece death metal act from France, dragging the old-school sound forward to open it up to a more contemporary, technical and progressive shade, apart from its kind.
After a well-received debut EP “Dawn Of A Dreadful Fate” (2017) and the critically acclaimed album “The Great Purpose Of The Lords” (2019), CATALYST are now ready to unleash their devastating sophomore album on October 14^th 2022.
 
CATALYST are
Jefferson Brand – Bass / Back vocals
Jules Kicka – Guitar / Vocals
Stéphane Petit – Drums / Back vocals
Florian Iochem – Guitar / Back vocals

Tomorrow, on October 14th, French technical death metal quartet CATALYST will release their second album, “A Different Painting For A New World”, through Non Serviam Records. The band has just unveiled the album’s third single, “Paragon Of Devastation”.

Listen to “Paragon Of Devastation” here:  https://smarturl.it/Catalyst-paragon

“We are thrilled to present you the third and final single off our new album, ‘Paragon Of Devastation’! Pure death metal awaits you in this track, packed with relentless riffing, bludgeoning drumming and intense growls & screams. The story of the Catalyst continues, with the Creator awaking from Its slumber with boiling blood, infuriated and ready to cast down the one daring to oppose Its majesty. Recollecting its might and forces, nothing will get on Its way, for It is the Paragon of Devastation’”, comments the band.

Decibel Magazine is currently hosting an exclusive stream of “A Different Painting For A New World”. Stream the album HERE.

“A Different Painting For A New World”, which was produced by HK Krauss at Vamacara Studio (Loudblast, Sinsaneum, Dagoba, among others), brings you to enigmatic field of brutality and epicness.
 
The original story of “the Catalyst”, vital core character of the band’s concept, is being carried through these 10 brand new tracks. As a “concept band”, CATALYST tells an original story of a universe brought to life by 9 Lords, originally protecting its integrity, but now corrupted by the almighty Creator. In this new chapter, the Catalyst now needs to purify that world, contaminated by the Creator’s madness and chaos. It tells the birth of a better world through destruction, but also about the battle of two entities fighting for different beliefs.

The stunning artwork was created by the French visionary Above Chaos (Meshuggah, Moonsorrow, etc.).

“A Different Painting For A New World” Track Listing:
1. Gathering Of New Forces
2. To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate
3. The Last Warning
4. Worms and Locusts
5. Arise Of The Anathema
6. Paragon Of Devastation
7. Behold Thy Purification
8. Peripeteia
9. The Catalyst’s End
10. A Different Painting For A New World

“A Different Painting For A New World” will be available as digipak CD, 2LP gatefold and digital. Pre-order your copy below:
 
CD: https://www.non-serviam-records.com/products/catalyst-a-different-painting-for-a-new-world-digipak
VINYL: https://www.non-serviam-records.com/collections/vinyl/products/catalyst-a-different-painting-for-a-new-world 
Bandcamp: https://non-serviam-records.bandcamp.com/album/a-different-painting-for-a-new-world

More about “A Different Painting For A New World”
Worms and Locusts” official video: https://youtu.be/34fXQlExIr4
“To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate” official video: https://youtu.be/MKnKNlPLhXs

Founded in 2017 by Jules Kicka, CATALYST is a 4-piece death metal act from France, dragging the old-school sound forward to open it up to a more contemporary, technical and progressive shade, apart from its kind. After a well-received debut EP “Dawn Of A Dreadful Fate” (2017) and the critically acclaimed album “The Great Purpose Of The Lords” (2019), CATALYST are now ready to unleash their devastating sophomore album on October 14^th 2022.

French technical death metallers CATALYST will release their hugely anticipated second album “A Different Painting For A New World”, on October 14^th 2022 via Non Serviam Records.

Today, the band unveils the video for their second single “Worms and Locusts” via No Clean Singing.

Once again directed by Vincent Tournaud, “Worms And Locusts” was shot at Le Gueulard Plus in France while the lights were entrusted to Thibault Groche. Most of the video was shot at 50% of the speed in order to multiply the speed during the editing. Thus, it creates an odd effect where musicians seem to be disarticulated while playing the hardest they can.

WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO HERE
LISTEN TO THE SONG HERE

The band comments on the video and the song as follows: “Be prepared to hear the fastest and most savage song of Catalyst’s repertoire with the track ‘Worms And Locusts’! Made to describe the second part out of three from the album’s story, ‘Worms And Locusts’ is an attempt to describe the brutality overwhelming humanity’s fate. In this chapter, the purification begins. It is the description of the onset of the purifying apocalypse settled by the nine lords. Unfold chaos and carnage, embedded in the purest shape of brutality. We really wanted to work on speed and on the rhythm during the editing part of this video. The chosen colors (orange / blue) aimed to match the artwork of the album, designed by Vincent Fouquet from Above Chaos. Kind of a simple music video, but we are really proud to show you our work on this song!”.

“A Different Painting For A New World” will be released as digipak CD, 2LP gatefold and digital. The pre-orders of the new album are available here: CD – VINYL – BANDCAMP

“A Different Painting For A New World”, which was produced by HK Krauss at Vamacara Studio (Loudblast, Sinsaneum, Dagoba, among others), brings you to enigmatic field of brutality and epicness.
 
The original story of “the Catalyst”, vital core character of the band’s concept, is being carried through these 10 brand new tracks. As a “concept band”, CATALYST tells an original story of a universe brought to life by 9 Lords, originally protecting its integrity, but now corrupted by the almighty Creator. In this new chapter, the Catalyst now needs to purify that world, contaminated by the Creator’s madness and chaos. It tells the birth of a better world through destruction, but also about the battle of two entities fighting for different beliefs.

The stunning artwork was created by the French visionary Above Chaos (Meshuggah, Moonsorrow, etc.).

“To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate” Official video: https://youtu.be/MKnKNlPLhXs
 
“A Different Painting For A New World” Track Listing:
1. Gathering Of New Forces
2. To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate
3. The Last Warning
4. Worms and Locusts
5. Arise Of The Anathema
6. Paragon Of Devastation
7. Behold Thy Purification
8. Peripeteia
9. The Catalyst’s End
10. A Different Painting For A New World

Founded in 2017 by Jules Kicka, CATALYST is a 4-piece death metal act from France, dragging the old-school sound forward to open it up to a more contemporary, technical and progressive shade, apart from its kind.
After a well-received debut EP “Dawn Of A Dreadful Fate” (2017) and the critically acclaimed album “The Great Purpose Of The Lords” (2019), CATALYST are now ready to unleash their devastating sophomore album on October 14^th 2022.

CATALYST are
Jefferson Brand – Bass / Back vocals
Jules Kicka – Guitar / Vocals
Stéphane Petit – Drums / Back vocals
Florian Iochem – Guitar / Back vocals

French technical death metallers CATALYST will release their hugely anticipated second album “A Different Painting For A New World”, on October 14^th 2022 via Non Serviam Records.

Today, Metal Injection is hosting the exclusive premiere of the video for the first single, “To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate”.

WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO HERE
LISTEN TO THE SONG HERE

“We are excited to present our first music video from our sophomore album, with the track ‘To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate’! The video is a nightmarish vision for humanity, a warning for mankind to contemplate inconceivable oblivion. A surrealistic sight of incoming sorrow. An overflow of brutal and light-speed soundscape to describe this dreadful hallucination. Among the black firmament, the human eye can perceive the horrific vision of mangled bodies elevating into secluded twilight, sustained in an aimless drift by the Lords’ powers.
Terror has arisen. Earth is a wreck. This chapter depicts the drastic change that mankind is facing.
Eventually, this troubling event came to an end. As confusion stroke the mind of the living, the corpses fell to the ground, vanishing like dust in the wind… With this music video, we tried to give our best to match this part of the story and to be in harmony with the atmosphere of the song”, explains the band.

Directed by Vincent Tournaud, this music video was shot during 2 days at the border between France and Luxembourg and aims to describe the first chapter of the story written for this album. Mederic Havard was hired to work on all the special effects of this video, creating a unique environment made of corpses elevating in the sky to match the vision of all humans looking up at the sky above them. The eight lords are here, at the edge of the cliff, helping out the Catalyst to get the dead off the ground and to project this horrific vision in the firmament.

“A Different Painting For A New World” will be released as digipak CD, 2LP gatefold and digital. The pre-orders of the new album are available here: CD – VINYL – BANDCAMP.

“A Different Painting For A New World”, which was produced by HK Krauss at Vamacara Studio (Loudblast, Sinsaneum, Dagoba, among others), brings you to enigmatic field of brutality and epicness.
 
The original story of “the Catalyst”, vital core character of the band’s concept, is being carried through these 10 brand new tracks. As a “concept band”, CATALYST tells an original story of a universe brought to life by 9 Lords, originally protecting its integrity, but now corrupted by the almighty Creator. In this new chapter, the Catalyst now needs to purify that world, contaminated by the Creator’s madness and chaos. It tells the birth of a better world through destruction, but also about the battle of two entities fighting for different beliefs.
 
The stunning artwork was created by the French visionary Above Chaos (Meshuggah, Moonsorrow, etc.).

“A Different Painting For A New World” Track Listing:
1. Gathering Of New Forces
2. To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate
3. The Last Warning
4. Worms and Locusts
5. Arise Of The Anathema
6. Paragon Of Devastation
7. Behold Thy Purification
8. Peripeteia
9. The Catalyst’s End
10. A Different Painting For A New World

Recently French technical death metallers CATALYST announced their signing with one of the most passionate labels in the extreme metal, Non Serviam Records.

The band has just unveiled the first details of their hugely anticipated second album “A Different Painting For A New World”, to be released as digipak CD, 2LP gatefold and digital on October 14^th 2022 through Non Serviam Records. The pre-orders of the new album are available here: CD – VINYL – BANDCAMP.

“A Different Painting For A New World”, which was produced by HK Krauss at Vamacara Studio (Loudblast, Sinsaneum, Dagoba, among others), brings you to enigmatic field of brutality and epicness.
 
The original story of “the Catalyst”, vital core character of the band’s concept, is being carried through these 10 brand new tracks. As a “concept band”, CATALYST tells an original story of a universe brought to life by 9 Lords, originally protecting its integrity, but now corrupted by the almighty Creator. In this new chapter, the Catalyst now needs to purify that world, contaminated by the Creator’s madness and chaos. It tells the birth of a better world through destruction, but also about the battle of two entities fighting for different beliefs.

The stunning artwork was created by the French visionary Above Chaos (Meshuggah, Moonsorrow, etc.).

“The new album is well on its way to be released, and will hit much harder than the first one did. The work we’ve put into it will strike your ears with ferocious and overwhelming brutality, and we’re more than ready to hit stages to show how much of a banger this is going to be when played live! It was a lot of work to create this full hour of intense music, it took us several years to get to this point. The release for this album was delayed two times, so it was really hard for us to wait until the release. But now we are ready! We are very proud of the result, it’s a complex yet quite accessible album”, comments the mastermind Jules Kicka.

“A Different Painting For A New World” Track Listing:
1. Gathering Of New Forces
2. To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate
3. The Last Warning
4. Worms and Locusts
5. Arise Of The Anathema
6. Paragon Of Devastation
7. Behold Thy Purification
8. Peripeteia
9. The Catalyst’s End
10. A Different Painting For A New World

The first taste of the new album will be available on August 16^th.

Founded in 2017 by Jules Kicka, CATALYST is a 4-piece death metal act from France, dragging the old-school sound forward to open it up to a more contemporary, technical and progressive shade, apart from its kind.
After a well-received debut EP “Dawn Of A Dreadful Fate” (2017) and the critically acclaimed album “The Great Purpose Of The Lords” (2019), CATALYST are now ready to unleash their devastating sophomore album on October 14^th 2022.

CATALYST are
Jefferson Brand – Bass / Back vocals
Jules Kicka – Guitar / Vocals
Stéphane Petit – Drums / Back vocals
Florian Iochem – Guitar / Back vocals