Mélancolia ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ‘RANDOM.ACCESS.MISERY’ + SHARE DARK NEW SINGLE “ALL_IS_RUST”

Melbourne blackened nu-metal outfit Mélancolia announce their sophomore album ‘random.access.misery‘ will be available Friday August 29 via Greyscale Records and Nuclear Blast. The band share scathing new single ALL_IS_RUST as a vicious taste of what’s to come.

ALL_IS_RUST serves as both a declaration of evolution and a warning: Mélancolia are not here to follow trends—they’re here to dismantle them. The new single is the introduction to Mélancolia’s forthcoming album, blending metalcore, deathcore, industrial noise, blast beats and DJ scratching into a hellish sonic cocktail. The song welcomes listeners to their new sound and a genre the band have coined as “Blackened Nu Metal”.

ALL_IS_RUST marries the sound, aesthetic and visuals from their debut album, ‘HissThroughRottenTeeth‘, into one cohesive package; “While there has been a departure from straight up deathcore, we feel this song sounds even more representative of Mélancolia,” says vocalist Alex Hill. “And after testing the waters debuting this song in Europe earlier this year we can confirm this one is already a crowd favourite.”

Picked as one of four 4 “brilliant new metal bands you need to hear” by Metal Hammer in April, the band are primed and ready and unleash their defining new album this August; “We are bringing a fresh sound to an otherwise stale scene, you will not hear what we are doing from anyone else. We are setting the trend as we set the bar for modern heavy music. Love us or hate us, you will fucking remember us.”

Momentum is at an all time high for the band, having toured Australia three times over off the back of ‘HissThroughRottenTeeth’, and breaking into Europe and the UK twice on tours with Suffocation (US) and Ingested (UK). The band will join Thy Art Is Murder on a regional lap of Australia this June and July and will debut some of their new music for the very first time. Tickets on sale now.

Mélancolia is Alex Hill (vocals), Joshua Taafe and Billy Morris (guitars) Mason Page (drums) and Toby Thomas (bass). After establishing themselves in 2022 with their debut single Horror_Ethereal, the band announced the following February their signing to both Greyscale Records for Australia/New Zealand and Nuclear Blast for the rest of the world. They released their debut album ‘HissThroughRottenTeeth’ April 2023, crafting a unique sound that has already catapulted them to new heights. Their very first show was in 2023 supporting Thy Art Is Murder on their Decade Of Hate Australian Tour alongside Starve and Justice For The Damned. Since this they’ve toured with To The Grave, Fallujah (US), Cattle Decapitation (US), Ingested (UK), Vulvodynia (SA), Suffocation (US) and many more.

ALL_IS_RUST is streaming everywhere now. ‘random.access.misery‘ will be out everywhere via Greyscale Records and Nuclear Blast on Friday August 29.

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