The Black Dahlia Murder recently released their new album, Verminous, via Metal Blade Records. The long running metal band have been pushing the boundaries of the genre for close to two decades now, and while they’ve gained a pretty substantial amount of popularity in their last few album cycles, the band’s new album has crashed the charts with huge numbers for a band that’s, well, pretty extreme.
Notably, the band came in at #99 on the Billboard Top 200 – but for overall Top Album Sales this week, the band was only topped by Fiona Apple, DaBaby, and Upchurch. Impressive company, considering the band is contending with withering album sales in general, compounded by everything that goes along with the coronavirus. The band also landed some notable debuts in Canada, the UK, and even Japan.
USA:
#1 Current Hard Music Albums
#1 Internet Albums
#2 Current Rock Albums
#4 Top Current Albums
#4 Billboard Top Albums
#4 LP Vinyl Albums
#5 Digital Albums
#99 Billboard Top 200
Japan:
#25 (Oricon Foreign Album)
UK:
#13 Rock / Metal Chart
#22 Indie Chart
Canada:
#5 Top 200
#5 Current Albums
#2 Hard Music
#7 Top Digital Albums
Germany:
#7 Top Albums
Verminous is The Black Dahlia Murder’s most dynamic, rousing and emotional release to date, and it achieves this without compromising one iota of heaviness. “I think this is the biggest evolutionary leap we’ve ever taken from one album to the next. We stoked the creative fires with 2017’s ‘Nightbringers’ and it’s gone much further now in ‘Verminous’,” states vocalist Trevor Strnad. “It’s a very colorful, moody, and charismatic album that experiments with new sounds and ideas without losing the cutthroat Black Dahlia edge. There is a lot of minutiae to digest. Plenty of delicious little Easter eggs woven into the fabric of each song. Each one is a living, breathing entity that will stand on its own as some of the best music this band has ever created.”
