NEWS: Nemecic drink from the poison chalice!

It’s been five years since 2021’s “The Last Magic in Practice” from Jyväskylä Finland based Melodic Death Metal act Nemecic so the band have announced an EP will be released later this year via Inverse Records. They do so with a lyric video for a first single in “The Chalice of Rot” which curiously confirms the record was recorded, mixed and mastered by Teemu Liekkala(Rioghan, Red Eleven). To be fair to them there was four years between their 2017 debut “The Deathcantation” and that sophomore record so whats 365 days between friends? Can you rush perfection?

Guitarist Tuomo Salonen: “I guess you could say ‘finally!’. As is tradition for us, things stretched out a bit… and somehow the gap between releases ended up being almost five years. But yeah, the song! According to the captain’s log, ‘The Chalice of Rot’ was first kicked off sometime in 2023, so this brew has been fermenting in some form for quite a while now. If I remember correctly, we were still tweaking the final arrangement pretty much down to the wire, since we just couldn’t get the verses to click—but in the end, the solution came from a good old-fashioned stomp, very much our style.

I think we’ve mentioned before that so-called ‘melodeath’ is a pretty well-chewed bone by now, and our influences on the melodic death side come from somewhere else than the In Flames/Soilwork axis. But hey, you’ve gotta try everything—so on this track’s chorus we probably get as close to Soilwork as we ever have, or ever will. There’s clean singing, harmonies, all that stuff. As a counterbalance, the middle section hits back with a pretty gnarly riff—so yeah, safe to say we’re still not heading to Eurovision just yet.”