Stuttgart, Germany -based melodic death metal act CREDIC has revealed the first details about the band’s highly anticipated sophomore studio album. Vermillion Oceans will be released on April 22, 2022 via Sweden’s powerhouse Black Lion Records.

Featuring ten brand new tracks, with Vermillion Oceans CREDIC delivers a furious and ferocious, yet emotional metal Iliad. An epic brand of melodic death metal that is, despite upholding the very DNA of the genre, free and bold, charging with vigour and embellished by a monumental aura of longing not unlike the feeling you get when you gaze at the starlit sky in wonder and terror. Imagine a cross between Gothenburg metal and the score to “Stranger Things”, Vermillion Oceans sounds like a massive, zeitgeisty metal album taking a stroll through Hawkins, Indiana. You might wanna call it arcade death metal or not: This is a first, not only in the cosmos of melodic death metal.

CREDIC comments:
“We are honoured and grateful to become a part of Oliver Dahlbäck‘s Black Lion Records and his incredible team. For CREDIC it feels like coming home without having ever been there before. Not only is it a return to our Swedish musical ancestors from the Gothenburg area but beyond that a continuation of our vision.
From the first moment onwards we felt Oliver’s passion for music, his enjoyment in making things happen and had great appreciation for his future plans regarding our upcoming album VERMILLION OCEANS.
When we created VERMILLION OCEANS our goal was to pick up what inspired us in Melodic Death Metal over the years – taking the rawness from Dark Tranquillity and At The Gates or the hymns that In Flames or Soilwork wrote during their career – but mix it with modern guitar riffs and give it a touch of Dark Synthwave sounds that you all know from the Stranger Things score. All this creates a zeitgeisty metal album in a captivating new soundscape that takes no prisoners. We cannot wait to share this monster with the world and to blow your ears with VERMILLION OCEANS in spring 2022.“

Tracklist reads as follows:

1. Tides Disharmonized
2. Vermillion Oceans
3. Darkened Fields
4. The Path
5. Interhuman Gravity
6. Autumn’s Spring
7. Chosen Ordeal
8. The Mountains Between Us
9. Tethys
10. Long Street

Set for release on April 22nd via Black Lion Records, watch out for many more details and a first single to follow in the weeks ahead!

Black Lion Records is pleased to announce the signing of German Death Metal group CREDIC.

Credic is a five-piece melodic death metal juggernaut from Stuttgart that sounds like the early Gothenburg scene taking a stroll through the sonic netherworld of “Stranger Things”, the band was brought to our attention from our promotional department All- Noire and we instantly felt that this was something very fitting both musical style wise but also story wise. 
So its with great pride we welcome them into Black Lion Records.
Credic’s sound is perhaps best linked to bands such as Amorphist, Dark Tranquility but the band takes things much deeper path. Imagine a cross between Gothenburg metal and the score to “Stranger Things”, sounds like a massive, zeitgeisty metal album taking a stroll through Hawkins, Indiana.
You might wanna call it arcade death metal or not: This is a first, not only in the cosmos of melodic  Death metal. 

Credic had this to say
We’re more than stoked to reveal that a new era in our career begins. Inspired by the sounds from Gothenburg in our early days we come full circle back to Sweden where we found the home for our upcoming album.

We cannot imagine a better place to unleash this beast and put all our trust in the hands of the mighty Black Lion Records.