Polish masters of death metal, DECAPITATED, announcing their Baltics & Scandinavia tour 2023 today. The tour spans six countries up in the North of Europe with seven shows.

DECAPITATED released their highly praised album “Cancer Culture” last May, which catapulted them to an incredible chart position #4 in their home country Poland. Now it´s time to  bring their neck breaking set of finest death metal gems to their fans up in the North and fire up their cold winter.

DECAPITATED 
BALTICS & SCANDINAVIA TOUR 2023

24.02.23 Latvia Riga @ Melna Piektdiena
25.02.23 Estonia Tallinn @ Helitehas
26.02.23 Finland Jyväskylä @ Lutakko
27.02.23 Finland Helsinki @ Ääniwalli
01.03.23 Sweden Gothenburg @ Valand
03.03.23 Denmark Viborg @ Viborg Metal Festival
04.03.23 Germany Flensburg @ Roxy Concerts

DECAPITATED are proud to release their 8th studio album “Cancer Culture”. Its the most versatile album the band has released so far, surprising fans with elements they have never used before, such as guest appearances on vocals. Again, Jarek Szubrycht (Carnival is Forever) has written amazing lyrics about the disproportion between the dreams, ambitions, and aspirations of humanity.  The leading engineer of the album was Tomasz Zed Zalewski (Anticult), David Castillo was responsible for mixing the album, and Ted Jensen for the final touch for mastering.

The amazing cover artwork comes from Fabio Timpanaro, an Italian artist whose art perfectly describes what the band wanted to tell through visual art.

Vogg states following on the release of the album:
“Cancer Culture is out today!!! We’ve been waiting for this special moment for a very long time.
It seems like ages, five years since our latest release “Anticult”, sixteen months of working on the “Cancer Culture” album and waiting almost a year to be able to share it with you finally. 
You can expect to hear various tracks, outstanding production, fantastic artwork, and of course, as always, something you have not likely to hear on the Decapitated album before.
To celebrate this day, we decided to release a video for “Iconoclast”. For this occasion, we returned to the studio where all had started, where we recorded drums for the album, to feel an incredible energy and cool vibes again, while making the video.
As you probably know, we have an exceptional guest, the metal legend and friend of ours, one and only Robb Flynn. His part of the track became one of my favorite parts of this album.
It’s a huge honor to have Robb in this project, and I hope you will dig a song. It’s a different song, not blasting madness as most of the songs on this record but still powerful, fast, and crushing. 
We are giving you today the “Cancer Culture”. Decapitated is back, strong and alive! From pain to strength!
Enjoy!~ Vogg”

And to celebrate the release, they have yet another surprise for their fans in store. Robb Flynn from mighty MACHINE HEAD contributes a hauntingly beautiful vocal to the track “Iconoclast”.

Flynn comments on the collaboration as follows:
“When Vogg asked me to sing on this Decapitated track, I was honored to jam with pioneers and such insane musicians. When he sent the track I was blown away at this incredible melodic section in the middle. When he told me the song was called Iconoclast, I knew exactly what needed to be said.  An Iconoclast is “a destroyer of images used in religious worship”.  This song had to address the hateful, growing fascist Evangelical movement growing around the world.  The cruel men who wish to hide their cruelty under a cloak of faith and zealotry.”

Listen to the album:  https://bfan.link/DecapitatedAlbum

The release of the long-awaited new album “Cancer Culture” is getting closer and closer.

Across eight studio albums, DECAPITATED grew from the adolescent dream of teenagers from a small Central European town to one of the leaders of the metal genre. Each successive album has further expanded the band’s sound with genre-bending authenticity and integrity.

Today, we get yet another taste of what “Cancer Culture” has to offer, with their newest single “Just A Cigarette”.

Guitarist and songwriter Vogg comments on the song as follows: “Just A Cigarette  is a powerful, epic, melodic death metal song about human life expectations and death. It was the first song I wrote for the Cancer Culture, which shaped the whole album. To present the track even more and affect the listeners’ senses, we wanted to deliver it with a great piece of art. For this occasion, we teamed up with the Polish artist Marcin Białas, who let us use his fantastic gravure prints, which we used in our video as well.”

The official video for the new banger was filmed and directed by Marcin Halerz in Krakow, Poland.

The track is a technical death metal masterpiece, accompanied by a pure metal video!

Listen to the song here: https://bfan.link/just-a-cigarette

Pre-save “Cancer Culture” here:  https://bfan.link/DecapitatedAlbum

The band recently announced a co-headline tour with label mates DESPISED ICON for this autumn.
Check out the dates below!

DESPISED ICON / DECAPITATED 
Special Guests:
BRAND OF SACRIFICE, DISTANT, VISCERA

29.10.22 Germany Hannover @ Faust
30.10.22 Germany Wiesbaden @ Schlachthof
31.10.22 Belgium Brussels @ Botanique
01.11.22 UK London @ The Electric Ballroom 
02.11.22 UK Bristol @ SWX
03.11.22 UK Birmingham @ The Mill
04.11.22 UK Glasgow @ Garage
05.11.22 UK Manchester @ Damnation Fest (without BOS, Viscera)
06.11.22 France Paris @ La Machine du Moulin Rouge
07.11.22 France Lyon @ CCO
08.11.22 Switzerland Pratteln @ Z7
09.11.22 Germany Munich @ Backstage
10.11.22 Italy Milan @ Slaughter Club
11.11.22 Slovenia Ljubljana @ Orto Bar
12.11.22 Hungary Budapest @ Dürer Kert
13.11.22 Czech Rep Prague @ Meet Factory
14.11.22 Poland Warsaw @ Proxima
15.11.22 Germany Leipzig @ Felsenkeller
16.11.22 Germany Berlin @ SO36
17.11.22 Germany Hamburg @ Gruenspan
18.11.22 Netherlands Tilburg @ 013
19.11.22 Germany Bochum @ Matrix

Last week, the Polish masters of death metal have announced their upcoming album “Cancer Culture” for May 27th and teased their fans with the title track. Now its time to deliver a stunning video for the song – just in time for their UK tour!

Mastermind Vogg comments on the video: “The video was filmed last December in Płock, Poland. This time we have teamed up with Mateusz Winkiel, the Director of Mania Studio, with who we have worked closely on the complete scenario. It was a good experience, and I hope our fans will appreciate the final effect of the work and an important message we tried to conclude in this picture.”

Vogg continues: ““It wasn’t easy to pick the first single from “Cancer Culture”. Each song has this different vibe that we would like to show as soon as possible and be proud of. Since the “Cancer Culture” is the first song from the album, we decided that this would be the perfect way to introduce you to new music. It is the album’s opening chapter, and you know, what you can expect.”

The band is also pleased to announce re-scheduled Irish/UK dates for their 25th Anniversary Tour, which was recently postponed due to the ongoing pandemic situation. The masterly death metallers will hit the stages throughout this March and April, accompanied by new special guests Signs Of The Swarm and Harbinger.

Upon the release of 2017’s “Anticult”, Metal Hammer declared DECAPITATED “a serious successor to the likes of Pantera and Lamb Of God – a band who can draw new legions into the metal world as its new champions.” 

Today, the band is happy to announce their diverse follow-up, 2022’s “Cancer Culture” for May 27th – an albumthat delivers on that promise. 

Instantly recognizable devastation and deceptively sinister hooks abound. Freshly minted DECAPITATED anthems, like the title track “Cancer Culture”, shimmer with sonically sharp production and unrelenting bombast.

Waclaw ‘Vogg’ Kieltyka on the first single:
“It wasn’t easy to pick the first single from “Cancer Culture”. Each song has this different vibe that we would like to show as soon as possible and be proud of. Since the “Cancer Culture” is the first song from the album, we decided that this would be the perfect way to introduce you to new music. It is the album’s opening chapter, and you know, what you can expect. “

Listen for yourself here: https://bfan.link/DecapitatedCCSingle

Mastermind Vogg continues: 
“Finally, after so many months of waiting, we got it. The announcement of our brand new album “Cancer Culture” and a new single is on!
The expectations were high, and we also gave ourselves a massive challenge with this album. But I think hard work pays off.
We had an opportunity to gather amazing people who took care of the production and helped us deliver the best we could with this album.
Again, Jarek Szubrycht (Carnival is Forever) has written amazing lyrics for us about the disproportion between the dreams, ambitions, and aspirations of humanity. 
The leading engineer of the album was Tomasz Zed Zalewski (Anticult), David Castillo, responsible for mixing the album, and Ted Jensen for the final touch for mastering.
For the cover, for the first time, we have worked with Fabio Timpanaro, an Italian artist whose art perfectly describes what we wanted to tell through visual art.
Don’t misinterpret the title meaning of the album. It has a much broader context. You will be surprised at what we have delivered this time.”

“Cancer Culture” comes in many beautiful formats that makes every fan heart beats faster!

Pre-save the album here:  https://bfan.link/DecapitatedAlbum

The band is also pleased to announce re-scheduled Irish/UK dates for their 25th Anniversary Tour, which was recently postponed due to the ongoing pandemic situation. The masterly death metallers will hit the stages throughout this March and April, accompanied by new special guests Signs Of The Swarm and Harbinger.

DECAPITATED – 25 Year Anniversary EU/UK Tour 2022
w/ Signs Of The Swarm, Harbinger

23.03.22 UK Southampton @ The Loft
24.03.22 UK Sheffield @ Corporation
25.03.22 UK Peterborough @ The Met Lounge
26.03.22 UK London @ The Underworld (SOLD OUT)
27.03.22 UK Leeds @ The Key Club
28.03.22 UK Glasgow @ The Classic Grand
30.03.22 Ireland Limerick @ Dolan’s Warehouse
31.03.22 Ireland Dublin @ Opium
01.04.22 UK Manchester @ The Bread Shed
02.04.22 UK Swansea @ Sin City
03.04.22 UK Bristol @ Thekla
04.04.22 UK Birmingham @ O2 Academy 2
05.04.22 UK Norwich @ Brickmakers
06.04.22 UK Brighton @ The Arch
07.04.22 UK Milton Keynes @ MK11