With the band’s 6th full-length The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn due out next Friday, Swedish death metal supergroup Bloodbath need little introduction at this point. Their first album in 4 years, the new album is vocalist Nick Holmes’ second with the band.
They’ve now unveiled a NSFW video for their new track “Chainsaw Lullaby”, and it provides all the headbanging and bludgeoning Swedish death metal you’ve come to expect from the veteran outfit. What are you waiting for? Enjoy your slay.
About the new song, Anders ‘Blakkheim’ Nystrom says:
“I wanted to keep it really simple and uncomplicated whilst retaining an evil groovy drive to make the song engage in headbanging action and sing along exercises. Having started a ‘red’ thread, I then locked in the chainsaw concept as a dual tribute to the Boss HM-2 guitar pedal sound as well as my love for the horror slasher genre and had both the music and lyrics going at the same time. I’ve always been a fan of lyrical paradoxes and the song title was just waiting to happen.”
This is the second with Old Nick on vocals. If their previous Grand Morbid Funeral was a thick spray of deathly noise, The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn is the rotten, fetid state of the world and our inevitable doom that is casting a looming shadow over proceedings. With world leaders threatening nuclear annihilation in 140 characters over social media, capitalism tearing itself apart, a wilful march into a surveillance state via handy pocket spying devices, a shifting climate that appears to literally be trying to kill us… It’s all fuelled Bloodbath’s newest ode to filth.
