NEWS: Misery Index announce Century Media signing and new album!

A wealth of news has surfaced from the Misery Index camp with a US tour with Origin and Wolf King as well as a European Festival tour announced for this summer but the biggest nugget of knowledge they have passed to us is that they are going to be releasing their seventh studio album “Complete Control” via new label home Century Media. A nine track affair that will see its first single and pre-order campaign launched on 11th March it was mixed by Will Putney (Knocked Loose, Body Count) and mastered by Jens Bogren (Sepultura, At The Gates) and is said to be a razor sharp Death Metal assault. As if that wasn’t enough, another new song that isn’t on the album titled “Strategies of Manipulation” will appear as part of the Decibel Flexi Series, coming with the next issue of Decibel Magazine in the US.

Bassist and vocalist Jason Netherton commented: “We are super stoked to present our new album ‘Complete Control’ – a pandemic-spawned 9-track opus of vitriolic death metal which draws heavily on our enduring brutal hardcore and grindcore influences. We tracked the album in September and October of 2021, and it was subsequently mixed by Will Putney prior to being mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street studios. The cover features the visceral, uncanny work of visual artist Matt Lombard, which to us hammers home the contradictory forces of control and chaos which define our modern age. The album’s central lyrical themes focus on these competing forces of control and chaos; they interrogate ‘power’ as something that is not always wielded with brute force in the modern age (through violence), but moreso as a control-society where it manifests on a self-governing, individual level. ALSO, we are looking very much forward to hitting the road again this year! Starting with a run of dates with our old friends Origin and Wolf King in North America, leading into festival appearances, a West Coast US tour and an EU headliner coming later this year. Until then, see you all soon and keep hammering the nails!“.