Almost two years after the successful and critically debut EP, Voices, that took the underground scene by storm with its relentless blend of high-adrenaline Death Metal and groovy mid-tempo elements, Belgium’s Deathrashers SCHIZOPHRENIA are gearing up for the release of the band’s highly anticipated debut album. Set for release on February 17th and with nine brand new tracks spanning over 43 minutes, “Recollections Of The Insane” picks up where its predecessor left off, with going even further in every aspect.

Coming in the wake of the release of the album’s first single “Cranial Disintegration” (listen HERE), the four-piece now unleashed the second track “Sea Of Sorrow”, which is “a track that is a little bit of everything” as guitarist Romeo Promos Promopoulos states.”It grabs you by the throat and keeps squeezing every bit of air out. Taking you thru a journey about the darkest place a person can lose itself in. In the writing process we wanted to accomplish a merciless track that’s perfectly balanced with melodies and crazy tempo changes to really accentuate the feeling and emotion of it all. This is definitely one of my personal favourites from the album“.

Guitarist Marty Van Kerckhoven continues:”Raging at 230 beats per minute, Sea Of Sorrow is definitely one of the fastest, most brutal songs on the record. A long, complex composition process that merged elements of death metal, thrash metal and even incorporated oriental scales yielded a unique, heavy and progressive song. Rapid riffs paired with the slower, rhythmic middle section resulted in a composition that tells a story which provides a dismal, enigmatic atmosphere. I particularly enjoyed pushing our boundaries and challenging our compositional creativity along with creating compelling melodies for the lead sections.“

“Recollections Of The Insane” was produced by Francesco Paoli of Fleshgod Apocalypse and mixed/mastered at Y-PRODUCTION by Yarne Heylen and is available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION

Tracklist:

1. Divine Immolation
2. Cranial Disintegration
3. Sea of Sorrow
4. Monolith
5. Onwards to Fire
6. Souls of Retribution
7. Inside the Walls of Madness
8. Fall of the Damned
9. Stratified Realities

Antwerp, Belgium-based deathrash metal band SCHIZOPHRENIA, who recently announced their upcoming debut album “Recollections Of The Insane” for February 17, have shared an official guitar playthrough video for their first single “Cranial Disintegration”. Featuring guitarists Romeo Promos Promopoulos and Marty Van Kerckhoven, the clip can be viewed here:

SCHIZOPHRENIA comments:
“Cranial Disintegration was the first single of our upcoming debut album Recollections Of The Insane. It’s one of our favourite tracks on the record and we can’t wait to play this banger live! The single & music video were received amazingly well by both old and new fans, so we definitely wanted to make a playthrough video for this track. It would be cool if it could inspire fans to pick up the guitar and to play this one along as it’s a lot of fun to play!“

With nine brand new tracks spanning over 43 minutes, the band’s upcoming album picks up where SCHIZOPHRENIA‘s 2020 -debut EP “Voices” left off, with going even further in every aspect, sometimes even flirting with some melodic Death/Black Metal influences! Morbid Angel, Demolition Hammer, Slayer, early Sepultura, Dissection, Death, At The Gates, Obituary, Bolt Thrower, Pestilence…if any of these bands already gets you going, then imagine a blend of all of them combined with SCHIZOPHRENIA’s unique and fresh interpretation of Extreme Metal!

“Recollections Of The Insane” will be coming out on February 17th 2022 and is available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION

Tracklist:

1. Divine Immolation
2. Cranial Disintegration
3. Sea of Sorrow
4. Monolith
5. Onwards to Fire
6. Souls of Retribution
7. Inside the Walls of Madness
8. Fall of the Damned
9. Stratified Realities

SCHIZOPHRENIA are:

Ricky Mandozzi: Bass & vocals
Romeo Promos Promopoulos: Lead & rhythm guitar
Marty Van Kerckhoven: Lead & rhythm guitar
Lorenzo Vissol: Drums

SCHIZOPHRENIA on tour w/ EVIL INVADERS:24.02.2022 DE Frankfurt – Nachtleben
25.02.2022 DE Bochum – Rockpalast
26.02.2022 DE Hamburg – Headcrash
27.02.2022 DE Hannover – Café Glocksee
28.02.2022 CZ Prague – Modra Vopice
01.03.2022 HU Budapest – Dürer Kert      
03.03.2022 AT TBA
04.03.2022 CH Sursee – Kulturwerk 118
05.03.2022 CH Martigny – Les Caves Du Manoir
06.03.2022 IT Mantova – Arcitom
07.03.2022 FR Lyon – Rock ‘n’ Eat
09.03.2022 ES Barcelona – Sala Wolf
10.03.2022 ES Madrid – Sala Rockville
11.03.2022 ES Oviedo – Sala Gong
12.03.2022 ES Vigo – Sala Master
13.03.2022 ES Vitoria-Gasteiz, Urban Rock Concept
14.03.2022 FR Nantes – Ferrailleur
16.03.2022 FR Paris – Backstage
18.03.2022 DE Cologne – MTC
19.03.2022 DE Berlin – Cassiopeia
20.03.2022 PL Danzig – Drizzly Grizzly
21.03.2022 PL Warsaw – Hydrozagadka
22.03.2022 PL Krakow – Klub Z
23.03.2022 DE Dresden – Chemiefabrik
24.03.2022 DE Munich – Backstage
25.03.2022 AT Vienna – Escape
26.03.2022 DE Stuttgart – Club Zentral
02.04.2022 BE Antwerp – Trix
08.04.2022 NL Groningen – Simplon
09.04.2022 NL Haarlem – Patronaat
15.04.2022 NL Oss – Groene Engel16.04.2022 NL Rotterdam – Baroeg

Back in January 2020, SCHIZOPHRENIA came out of nowhere with their self-released debut EP “Voices” to hit the Extreme Metal underground like a bomb. With a relentless cocktail of high-adrenaline Death Metal and groovy mid-tempo elements, the band took the heavy scene by storm and soon became known for their distinctively heavy yet dynamic sound, bursting with detail and intensity.

Today, the four-piece from Antwerp, Belgium, revealed the first details of their highly anticipated debut studio album “Recollections Of The Insane“, which will see the light of day on February 17th, 2022. With nine brand new tracks spanning over 43 minutes, the band’s upcoming record picks up where “Voices” left off, with going even further in every aspect, sometimes even flirting with some melodic Death/Black Metal influences! Morbid Angel, Demolition Hammer, Slayer, early Sepultura, Dissection, Death, At The Gates, Obituary, Bolt Thrower, Pestilence…if any of these bands already gets you going, then imagine a blend of all of them combined with SCHIZOPHRENIA’s unique and fresh interpretation of Extreme Metal!

Despite various offers from worldwide record labels, the band has once again decided to release the album on their own and fully DIY, as it currently feels like the right way to go, and in order to present the most authentic version of themselves.

To shorten your wait for “Recollections Of The Insane“, SCHIZOPHRENIA just released a first and intense album single, one that will most likely leave you with a hunger for more! Watch the brand new video clip for “Cranial Disintegration” here:

Ricky Mandozzi (vocals, bass) on “Cranial Disintegration”: “This is by far my favorite song of the album. It shows the evolution of Schizophrenia’s songwriting with a mix of melody and brutality topped with some gory lyrics. Cranial Disintegration was a lot of fun to write and record and I’m looking forward to performing it in front of our fans. I hope they will enjoy the song as much as we did writing it.” Lorenzo Vissol (drums) on the album:”This album is the result of a very intense work in which each of us has explored his own musicality. After our debut EP we felt that we still had much to say and much to express. We also felt that we had evolved musically both as a band, forming a solid unit, and as individual musicians. When starting the composition process, we wanted to express exactly that and I think ‘Recollections of the Insane’ succeeded in doing so. Each one of us has pushed himself to the fullest and beyond in order to put his own personality into each song, but also in order to make each track of this album unique. The result is a complete collective effort in which each song lives for its own while still creating a whole. In my opinion this is what will make the strength of this album and define it.

We wanted our music to be more extreme and aggressive but, more importantly, we also wanted to add more depth to it. We didn’t want the music to be aggressive just for the sake of it, it needed to tell stories in which the listener would be carried from start to finish. Those would be stories of insane minds! Overall the composition is more complex, the melodies are more developed and tempos are faster. We introduced blast beats and some more melodic moments. However, while the music is more intense and relentless it is also more eerie and dynamic.

We hope listeners will appreciate ‘Recollection of the Insane’ as much as we enjoyed diving into its composition and we certainly can’t wait to hit the stage with our new material“

Tracklist reads as follows:

1. Divine Immolation
2. Cranial Disintegration
3. Sea of Sorrow
4. Monolith
5. Onwards to Fire
6. Souls of Retribution
7. Inside the Walls of Madness
8. Fall of the Damned
9. Stratified Realities

The album was produced by Francesco Paoli of Fleshgod Apocalypse and mixed/mastered at Y-PRODUCTION by Yarne Heylen. Artwork, drawings and layout by Khaos Diktator Design.  

“Recollections Of The Insane” will be coming out February 17th 2022 and is now available for pre-order through SCHIZOPHRENIA‘s BIG CARTEL or in North America via Redefining Darkness Records HERE or at THIS LOCATION

SCHIZOPHRENIA on tour w/ Evil Invaders:

24.02.2022 DE Frankfurt – Nachtleben
25.02.2022 DE Bochum – Rockpalast
26.02.2022 DE Hamburg – Headcrash
27.02.2022 DE Hannover – Café Glocksee
28.02.2022 CZ Prague – Modra Vopice
01.03.2022 HU Budapest – Dürer Kert
03.03.2022 AT Dornbirn – Schlachthaus Dornbirn
04.03.2022 CH Sursee – Kulturwerk 118
05.03.2022 CH Martigny – Les Caves Du Manoir
07.03.2022 FR Lyon – Rock ‘n’ Eat
09.03.2022 ES Barcelona – Sala Wolf
10.03.2022 ES Madrid – Sala Rockville
11.03.2022 PT Lisbon – Side B Rocks
12.03.2022 ES Vigo – Sala Master
13.03.2022 ES Vitoria – Urban Rock Concept
14.03.2022 FR Nantes – Ferrailleur
16.03.2022 FR Paris – Gibus
18.03.2022 DE Cologne – MTC
19.03.2022 DE Berlin – Cassiopeia
20.03.2022 PL Danzig – Drizzly Grizzly
21.03.2022 PL Warsaw – Hydrozagadka
22.03.2022 PL Krakow – Klub Z
23.03.2022 DE Dresden – Chemiefabrik
24.03.2022 DE Munich – Backstage
25.03.2022 AT Vienna – Escape
26.03.2022 DE Stuttgart – Club Zentral
02.04.2022 BE Antwerp – Trix
08.04.2022 NL Groningen – Simplon
09.04.2022 NL Haarlem – Patronaat
15.04.2022 NL Oss – Groene Engel
16.04.2022 NL Rotterdam – Baroeg

SCHIZOPHRENIA are:

Ricky Mandozzi: Bass & vocals
Romeo Promos Promopoulos: Lead & rhythm guitar
Marty Van Kerckhoven: Lead & rhythm guitar
Lorenzo Vissol: Drums