Grand Cadaver - Swedish Death Metal Outfit Ft. Current/Former Members of Dark Tranquillity, The Halo Effect, Novarupta, Tiamat & Katatonia Announce New EP "The Rot Beneath"

Grand Cadaver’s roster holds an impressive level of prestige that, if not well-managed, could distract from their current output. The group is comprised of former members of Dark Tranquility, The Halo Effect, Tiamat, and Katatonia, and serves as an outlet for their basal instincts. Fortunately, this cuts through the baggage of, technically, being a supergroup and redirects the focus to sweet, Swedish death metal. Today, we’re premiering “The Rot Beneath,” the first track from their upcoming EP of the same name.

The band comments: "When you look at the state of the world today, it’s difficult not to feel despair. We see madness, death, war, corruption and polarisation. And it makes you think — what are we if not the cause of the problem? What are we but the rot beneath? This is the anthem to mankind’s demise."

Featuring some of Sweden’s most seasoned metal musicians, namely Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity, The Halo Effect), Stefan Lagergren (ex-Treblinka/Tiamat), Alex Stjernfeldt (Novarupta, CHILD), Christian Jansson (Pagandom, Dark Tranquillity), and Daniel Liljekvist (ex-Katatonia, Disrupted), Grand Cadaver have carved a reputation for delivering death metal with no gimmicks, no polish, just raw power.

From their debut EP Madness Comes (recorded in just three days and charting at #9 in Sweden), to their crushing LP Into the Maw of Death, and their doom-laced 2023 follow-up Deities of Deathlike Sleep, the band has continuously pushed their sound into darker and heavier territory.