Belgian death metal outfit Fractured Insanity are set to release 5th album!

Formed in Belgium in 2004, Fractured Insanity have been in the frontlines of death metal for twenty years. Over that time they have played hundreds of shows, sharing the stage with the likes of Suffocation, Cattle Decapitation and Memoriam, performed at huge festivals such as Summer Breeze and released a string of critically acclaimed albums. At every step along the road they have gathered experience and honed their skills, always improving and always moving forward. Now, every moment of those decades of destruction has coalesced into one incredible album, the pinnacle of everything they have achieved to date, a masterpiece of darkly creative death metal…Age Of Manipulation!

Formed from ten exquisitely crafted tracks, ten monstrous sculptures of terror and torment, Age Of Manipulation is a labyrinth of nightmares, with sonic shocks lurking around every corner. Each song is united in imperious power and overwhelming atmosphere, yet each possesses a unique character, touches of madness and insidious sorcery that set them apart. Be it the instantly addictive refrains of ‘Bezoar’, a beast shaped from the blood of ritual sacrifice, or the mind altering jazz-infused interlude that punctures the death dealing onslaught of ‘Fear, The Ultimate Weapon’; the colossus that is ‘Slumber In The Deep’ that leads you beneath vast vaulted halls and speaks in a voice to sunder the earth, or the rumbling bass motifs that are torn apart by bursts of extreme violence in the bewildering ‘Psy-K.O.’. Every song on Age Of Manipulation matters, every one wounds, deeply and leaves scars. This is an album of virulent, venomous potency and a wild, uncontrollable spirit.

Mixed and mastered to perfection at Hertz Studio (Hour Of Penance, Vomit The Soul, Vader etc) the sound of Age Of Manipulation balances wicked, razor sharp edges, textured shadows and imperious might. When it is released through Xtreem Music – the label Fractured Insanity worked with on their classic albums ‘Mass Awakeless’ and ‘Manmade Hell’ – on February 18th, the bar for death metal albums that follow in its wake will have been set perilously high. Devotees of the dark, disciples of death, advocates of annihilation, prepare for the dawning of the Age Of Manipulation!