Brand of Sacrifice are back with a pair of hard-hitting tracks, marking the Canadian deathcore menaces’ first material since 2023.
The band launched their next era today (June 17th) by unveiling a visualizer for new song “Seeing Red,” described in a press release as concerning “the desperate search for agency when everything feels unstable.” And, indeed, the single shakes the earth to its core with a mutli-pivoted arrangement of hammer blasts, glacial sub-drops and hellacious groove.
Between that, the psycho-mode noise-riffs and vocalist Kyle Anderson’s blisteringly meta gutturals (“The Brand it bleeds”), “Seeing Red” should bring a tear to your deathcore-lovin eyes — either that or a geyser of crimson will start shooting out your oculars.
On top of this, Brand of Sacrifice delivered “This Place Wasn’t Meant for Us,” a moodier tension-builder full of ambient textures, reality-distorting guitar chugs and a terror-stricken, sprechesang-style vocal performance from Anderson. Eventually, the song kicks into a lean and filthy mosh.
“While these songs push Brand of Sacrifice forward, they also reconnect with elements of our past, drawing inspiration from the atmosphere and emotion of [2018’s] The Interstice and our sophomore release, [2021’s] Lifeblood,” Anderson notes in a statement of the tunes, which follow the band’s late 2023 single, “Purge.”
“We wanted to strip things back and focus on something more visceral, and honest while capturing a sense of nostalgia without simply repeating ourselves. We’re very proud of these tracks and can’t wait for everyone to experience this next chapter with us.”
You can stream “Seeing Red” up above and “This Place Wasn’t Meant for Us” down below. It’s as yet unclear what Brand of Sacrifice’s next step is beyond these singles. They’d issued the Between Death and Dreams EP in 2023, while their last full-length was Lifeblood.