Ingested have premiered a new video for their new song “Merciless Reflection.” You can check that out below. The track, which features Damonteal Harris (PeelingFlesh), will appear on the band’s new album, “Denigration,” which will be released on May 8.
The group commented on the single:
“‘Merciless Reflection‘ lives inside the worst room in your head. The lyrics are a spiral of intrusive thoughts, religious disillusion, and self-loathing, that feeling of turning over the same ‘barbaric cycles’ until you don’t know if you’re chasing salvation or just feeding the disease. Faith is no comfort here; it’s another blade. The narrator is banished, molded into ‘nothing but a big mistake,’ picking through the wreckage of belief and realizing redemption was never guaranteed in the first place.
Musically, this is a deliberate love letter to the era that formed us: straight-up, no-bullshit slam. It’s primitive in all the right way, knuckle-dragging riffs, caveman groove, sections built for bodies hitting the floor, but framed with the tightness and production we’ve grown into. Bringing in D from PeelingFlesh to deliver those disgusting, gurgling vocals was about honoring the sound we grew up on and planting our flag in it now. If you’ve ever wanted that old Ingested ugliness back, this is us saying we never lost it, we just learned how to aim it.”
They also added the following about the album:
“Musically, it’s us pulling every thread we’ve laid down over the years, slam, groove, melody, blackened dissonance, and twisting it into something that feels like a definitive statement rather than a reset. This is the sound of being dragged through the dirt and refusing to stay there.”
“Denigration” Track Listing:
01. “Dragged Apart” (feat. Skyler Conder of Varials/CELL)
02. “Merciless Reflection” (feat. Damonteal Harris of PeelingFlesh)
03. “Watch You Fold” (feat. John Gallagher of Dying Fetus)
04. “Stitch By Stitch“
05. “We Are All Inherently Evil“
06. “Dredge The Dark” (feat. Kyle Medina of Bodysnatcher)
07. “Oaths Betrayed“
08. “Beaten Beyond The Veil“
09. “Steel Toe Truth“
10. “Cold Sun“
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