Metal Anarchy

Withering Scorn (ex-Megadeth, ex-Fates Warning, etc.) have offered another update on their upcoming album “Sanctum Of The Depraved.” According to drummer Shawn Drover, “the record is completely done.”

Drover said the following:

“Hey, everybody. Happy holidays. Shawn Drover here from WITHERING SCORN. I haven’t posted anything in a while, although there has been some cool stuff going on.

What we did was we had the record pretty much done, and there was one song that Glen [Drover] wasn’t vibing on in particular. Joe [DiBiase] and myself as well liked the song — not quite as much as the others. It was a little more commercial sounding or whatever, although it’s a complete metal track anyway. But Glen had this instrumental tune he was working on, and so we omitted the more commercial song and had to record and finish writing and record this instrumental track that he had. And I’m glad we did that, because it turns out to be a really cool track. It’s something different for the record, and I’m really glad that we did that in hindsight now. But that pretty much cost us four or five weeks of time.

So anyway, the record is completely done. And also we had to change, with the liner notes of the artwork and all that stuff, the song title had to be changed and all this stuff, which took a little bit time. But the good news is Max Norman mastered the entire record. It sounds fantastic. We have all the artwork, everything ready to go. And after the holidays, beginning of the year, we’re gonna send it off, which takes about, I believe, 10 weeks or so. So realistically, we’re probably looking at somewhere mid to end March that we’ll get the physical vinyl, colored vinyl and CD in our hands. And, of course, I’ll keep you updated on that.

But that’s where we’re at. ‘Sanctum Of The Depraved’ is a hundred percent completely done. And if you like the first record, you’re definitely gonna dig this one too. We’re really proud of it. And it’s taken some time, but the world’s not gonna blow up if you don’t get the WITHERING SCORN record in the next two weeks. We wanted it to be right, and I’m glad Glen made that judgment call to put the instrumental track on there. ‘Cause now the record’s even better.”

[via Blabbermouth]