Swedish death metal masters Paganizer return with new album As Mankind Rots on Xtreem Music!

For more than twenty seven years Paganizer have been delivering the epitome of Swedish death metal in all its raw and rotten glory. Album after album has seen the band serving up a faultless onslaught of genre defining tales of the macabre. Lead by the indefatigable riff machine that is Rogga Johansson, Paganizer show no signs of slowing in their assault on the world’s sanity, as they prepare to unleash their fourteenth full length studio album – one of their strongest and most consistent offerings to date – As Mankind Rots!

Right from the opening, title track As Mankind Rots fulfils all hopes and expectations with thundering, carpet bombing brilliance. Imperious, guttural vocals roar over rabid riffs with that essential guitar tone, all underpinned by a coffin splintering rhythm section. After all these years the Paganizer sound remains steadfastly exhilarating and irresistible. As ‘Aftermath Bleeder’ goes howling into the superb ‘Only Maggots’ death metal perfection is achieved – a sonic nirvana of undead savagery – and the quality never slips. From the dark, subterranean atmosphere of ‘Hollow’ to the headbanging rhythms of ‘A Testament To Madness’ and the soul consuming horror of ‘Afterworld’, As Mankind Rots is Paganizer at their very, very best. Concluding with a trip back in time to ‘Vanans Makt’ with a guest vocal appearance from Lastkaj 14’s Bulten, this album is a stunning expression of cemetery walking, catacomb dwelling, flesh eating death!

With the grim and ghastly artwork of Ivan Bragin (The Gathering, October Tide, Woods Of Ypres etc) on its front cover and the immaculate mixing and mastering of long term collaborator Ronnie Björnström, bringing out every crack of breaking bone and the stench of eternal decay, As Mankind Rots will be exhumed by Xtreem Music on February 5th. Available on CD, 12"LP Cassette & Digital formats, this is essential listening for all disciples of death!