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SUDDEN DEATH: Italian death metallers release new single "The Torture Wheel", fourth album "In Sinner Hate" out in May!

  • Jason Hesley
  • 5 days ago
  • 2 min read

SUDDEN DEATH have unleashed “The Torture Wheel”, the second single taken from their upcoming fourth album "In Sinner Hate", due out May 19th, 2025 via Time To Kill Records. Picking up where the previous single left off, “The Torture Wheel” drags the listener into a suffocating vortex of violence and despair, perfectly embodying the album’s core themes of alienation, social decay and inner torment.




The band commented:


"'The Torture Wheel' is a song that addresses the theme of sadism. In a hellish scenario, victims are tortured in an endless cycle, impaled on a constantly rotating toothed wheel, a metaphor for the inexorable monotony of life".


The album was mixed and mastered by Stefano "Saul" Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance, Hideous Divinity), with additional recordings by Marco "Cinghio" Mastrobuono (Hour Of Penance, Shores Of Null) and Giuseppe Orlando (Novembre, Stormlord).


The album title plays phonetically with the word "Incinerate", but takes on the meaning of "In the sinner's hate", reflecting the dark and introspective themes that permeate the entire work. In this new effort, the band delves into concepts such as violence, monotony, loneliness, alienation, respectability, and hardship, while also tackling broader topics like war, pollution, and social isolation, exploring them in their most visceral form.


While maintaining the claustrophobic, minimalist, and massive approach that has always defined SUDDEN DEATH, the new material ventures into more intricate and elaborate directions. The band's death metal carries a modern edge, yet retains clear nods to the old-school brutality of Cannibal Corpse and Sinister. The guitars intertwine constantly, layering different yet harmonized riffs before reconverging into a single, powerful sonic force, creating a complex and dynamic listening experience.


Tracklist:


1. In Sinner Hate (Intro)

2. The Modern Pharisee

3. Destined to Fall

4. The World is Hate

5. Living Corruption

6. The Beast Awakening

7. Channelling Misery

8. The Torture Wheel

9. Acidic Ways of Parity

10. Human Death Machine

11. The Human Demise


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Formed in 1997, SUDDEN DEATH are a death metal band hailing from Genzano (Rome). The band’s sound, initially inspired by the rawest old school death-thrash metal waves, slowly and progressively developed into a more brutal style, influenced by Cannibal Corpse and early Deicide. Nowadays the band set forth on a masterclass in technical and claustrophobic death metal with dense and intertwining guitars, sudden tempo and metric changes and more consistent and exasperated vocal parts.


So far the band has released three albums - “Devoured Inside" (self-produced) in 2001, "Injection of Hate" (Deadbang Records) in 2004, and "Monolith of Sorrow" (Killerpool Records) in 2015 - and the EP "Stillborn" (Art Gates Records) in 2018.


SUDDEN DEATH have played several shows throughout the Italian peninsula and around Europe, sharing the stage with important acts such as Suffocation, Gorgoroth, Vader, Napalm Death, Exodus, Dark Tranquility, Possessed, Pestilence and many others.

 
 
 

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