Swedish death metal horde Undecayed have returned with a vengeance, premiering their devastating new single, “The Descendants of Death.” The track rips straight from the band’s long-awaited debut album, In Death’s Image, set for release on May 21 through Lethal Scissor Records.
Rooted in the savage tradition of ’90s American death metal, Undecayed channel the pummeling intensity of Suffocation and Deicide, sharpened with the feral edge of early Sinister and Severe Torture. “The Descendants of Death” offers a ruthless preview of the carnage to come—raw, relentless, and utterly merciless.
While In Death’s Image doesn’t follow a traditional narrative, it’s thematically unified by its singular obsession with extinction: every song but one is dedicated to the total death of all things—humans, animals, even the elements. That one exception is “The Descendants of Death.”
“Our upcoming album In Death’s Image is not a traditional concept album, yet most of the songs deal with the total death of everything and everyone. All songs but one. ‘The Descendants of Death’ is the exception to the rule. Whereas the overall message of the album is that all life shall end and there is no hope for an afterlife, this particular song presents the idea of ‘what if.’ What if there was an afterlife? Populated not by humans but by the dead. The Descendants of Death. The song was one of the last to be written for the album.”
Undecayed’s long road to their debut dates back to 2008, when vocalist Tony Richter and guitarist Mikael Bergman—veterans of bands like Gardens of Obscurity and The Darksend—first joined forces. After years of lineup shifts, personal setbacks, and the chaos of the pandemic, In Death’s Image is finally ready to see the light of day—and extinguish it.
Stream “The Descendants of Death” below and embrace the afterlife—where the dead walk alone.
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