Danish death metal/metallic hardcore goliaths Lifesick will unleash their crushing new studio album “Loved By None, Hated By All” on November 1st, 2024, via Metal Blade Records.
Lifesick manifests brutal and brutally honest songs with lyrics inspired by the turbulent nature of life. Musically influenced by Swedish death metal, the band’s authentic and explosive mixture of crushing tones and modern breakdowns create an uncompromising sound and vision.
Formed in Fredericia, Denmark in 2015, Lifesick’s hometown was founded in 1650 as a giant fortress, at a time when the country was being continually battered by war and defeated by empire after empire. Although the Danish Realm is now among the world’s most peaceful and prosperous places to live, Lifesick is keen to alert us to the bitter conflict still raging in their hearts and minds. After three full-lengths of increasing weight and intensity, 2023’s “Life and Other Liesl” EP brought the band’s sobering death/metallic hardcore to Metal Blade Records, where they have come of age with the kaleidoscopic fury and ironclad gloom of “Loved By None, Hated By Alll”.
“Sometimes it feels like the more you give, the more they takel”, comments the band on that pessimistic title. “Over the last couple of years, we’ve given our all, but we’ve been knocked down time after time. That’s what inspired this title and it resonates with most of the songs on the album. It fits perfectly with Lifesick’s theme, which is and always will be about the roughness of living in today’s world. Lifesick exists as it does because of the world as it is”.
As with previous platters, the LP was recorded by Jacob Bredahl at his Dead Rat facility. This time Bredahl’s role expanded beyond engineering, helping to shape and revise new material before twiddling a single knob. “He came down to our rehearsal room where we played all the songs for him live, so he could add his touch to each song or edit stuff that we might have been a little blind to from playing the songs too much. This was the first time we did this, and it was very effective. It is definitely not the last time we will do itl”.
Even so, the responsibility for applying Lifesick’s monomaniacal momentum to a more sophisticated and immersive sound picture has been shared around more than usual. Mixing was farmed out to Taylor Young at The Pit, “to give it a different touch or nuance from our previous releases”, while the tracks were handed to noise collective John Cxnnor, “to enhance the album with sound design and samples throughout every song, to better unify the album. We provided them with all the songs, along with keywords about the lyrical themes and the album artwork. With this information, they created unique dark industrial samples that perfectly fit the songs and our vision for the album”.
The results ring loud and clear from this tumultuous masterwork of bleak aggro beauty. In advance of the record’s release, today Lifesick unleashes first single, “Legacy of Misery”. The band elaborates: “This is an anthem for all of you who have been beaten down by the system and let down by everyone around you, but have found solace in this brotherhood of outcasts. This song is the grooviest on the album, featuring a catchy sing-along chorus. Additionally, it features guest vocals from our good friend Andreas Bjulver from Cabal”.
Watch the official video for the new single “Legacy of Misery” below.
“Loved By None, Hated By All” will be available as a jewel case CD (EU + USA) and digitally as well as vinyl in the following color variants:
• Crimson Red Marbled (USA + EU)
• Dark Charcoal Marbled (EU – Ltd. 300)
• Clear Black Dust Splatter (EU – Ltd. 200)
Pre-order “Loved By None, Hated By All” here.
Tracklist:
1. Death Wish
2. Peace Through Superior Firepower
3. Double Cross
4. Hollow Treats
5. Legacy of Misery (feat. Andreas Bjulver, Cabal)
6. Poems for My Funeral
7. Liquid Courage
8. Loved by None
9. The Mourning March
10. Straight Jacket
Lifesick has tours across Denmark and Southeast Asia booked through the new year with more shows to be announced in the weeks to come. See all confirmed dates below.
European Tour Dates 2024:
10/12/2024 Walthers Musikcafe – Skanderborg, DK
10/17/2024 Studenterhuset – Aalborg, DK
10/25/2024 Posten – Odense, DK
10/26/2024 Platform K – Horsens, DK
11/08/2024 Copenhagen Distillery – Copenhagen, DK*
12/06/2024 Blueprint Livehouse – Bangkok, TH
12/08/2024 Atlantis Bar – Siem Reap, KH
12/09/2024 Cloud Bar Phnom – Penh KH
12/10/2024 Saigon Kick World Music Bar – Ho Chi Min, VN
12/13/2024 The Rockin Jamz Hall – Johor Bahru, MY
12/14/2024 Cafe Lupe – Antipolo, PH
12/15/2024 Unknown 13 Pub – Quezon City, PH
12/18/2024 Tops Commercial Complex – Bacolod, PH
12/19/2024 South Republic Live House – Davao, PH
12/20/2024 Canto Bogchi Joint – Baguio, PH
12/21/2024 GH Building – Tarlag, PH
1/10/2025 Baltoppen – Ballerup, DK
1/17/2025 Sonderborghus – Sonderborg, DK
1/18/2025 Tojhuset – Fredericia, DK
2/07/2025 Headquarters – Aarhus, DK
* (Record Release Show)
Line-up:
Simon Shoshan – Vocals
Nicolai Lindegaard – Guitar
Nikolai Lund – Guitar
Jeppe Løwe – Drums
Jeppe Riis Frausing – Bass
Weblinks:
www.lifesick.dk
www.facebook.com/lifesick
