USA’s SKINNED fifth studio full-length, “Shadow Syndicate” is out today (May 04) via XENOKORP on limited edition DigiPak CD, digital and with a new line of t-shirts. It’s available here and available for full streaming on all the major streaming platforms, including YouTube, BandCamp, Spotify, Deezer, and more.
Prior to the release, SKINNED also made available a music video for the songs “We Are the End” and a lyrics video for the song “As Their Bodies Fall“, the later featuring Josh Welshman of SANITY as guest vocalist (lyrics by Paul McGuire of CEREBRAL BORE).
Managed and booked by none other than world-renowned FLAMING ARTS AGENCY, SKINNED have already been confirmed for some killer festivals.
“Shadow Syndicate” is available in Europe & Australia through SEASON OF MIST and its local distributors and in the USA and Canada through MVD Entertainment Group and its local distributors. Rest of the world: XENOKORP.
FANS OF ORIGIN, GOJIRA, HYPOCRISY…
After more than 20 years at it, four albums and countless gigs and tours worldwide with some of the most recognized of their peers (KATAKLYSM, INCANTATION, DEFEATED SANITY…), USA’s SKINNED are back with their brand new full-length, “Shadow Syndicate “, again produced by Dave OTERO (CATTLE DECAPITATION, CEPHALIC CARNAGE…) resulting in what’s definitely an ambitious and outstanding landmark release of the band’s discography.
Aside from the great musicianship and production, the mastery achieved here is the ability that SKINNED have to channel all of their inspiration, musically and lyrically, to create an atmosphere of doom and darkness throughout the album to create a fiery and fierce release that’s diverse yet coherent, dense yet atmospheric and all the while brutal and melodic at the same time.
Varied in shapes and moods, “Shadow Syndicate” (featuring among others guest vocals by Josh WELSHMAN (DEFEATED SANITY…) and guest lyrics by Paul McGUIRE (CEREBRAL BORE…), is the kind of work of art that’s much more than a collection of tracks: it’s a world in itself where each song explores a different aspect of dark beliefs (conspiracy theories, unsolved mysteries…), the whole creating a society of extreme darkness under the domination of the New World Order where the citizens become cattle for the governments and guinea pigs for alien entities, etc. ultimately leading our specie to its demise, the face under the merciless boot of the… “Shadow Syndicate“!
DISCOGRAPHY (main)
2015 – Create Malevolence
2012 – Isolating the Gene
2010 – Contortion of Reality [EP]
2008 – Morbid Token of Perversion and Homicide
2005 – Spawn of Insanity
2003 – Grimoires [compilation]
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