Austria’s EPSILON To Release Zu Richten Album In June

Austrian death metallers, Epsilon, will release their new album, zu richten, on June 8th via Mighty Music.

After having released two EPs and a full length album, Epsilon, established in 2003 in St. Pölten, the capital city of Lower Austria, now present their latest death metal masterpiece, entitled zu richten.

Just right in time for their tenth anniversary, Epsilon went through a personnel change: Guitarist Schmidi (Defiled Utopia) and drummer Urge (Bastard Peels) revitalized the quintet with fresh ideas. After several live performances they created eleven new songs, mainly elaborated by the two guitarists and drummer Urge alone, but always completed in teamwork.

Technically matured due to the musical development of the whole band, Epsilon referred to the sounds of Bloodbath, Vallenfyre or the early Entombed while writing and recording their songs. The final refinement (mixing & mastering) took place at the Stage One Studio under the aegis of Andy Classen (Destruction, Belphegor).

The artwork for the cover, which was designed by the renowned Austrian painter Roman Träxler especially for the album, portrays according to the artist, “a new kind of human being that does not eat, can’t hear, see nor speak and thus cannot do any harm to the world”.

The lyrics, penned by frontman Krise, deliberate the self-perception of mankind, its misconduct and ethical action. Another central issue are animal rights – and that in both, a very clear and a more metaphoric – fictional way of telling.

More details to follow.