Sarcator release new single and video for the title track of their upcoming album ‘Swarming Angels & Flies’

After announcing their signing to Century Media Records back in July, young Swedish blackened thrash metal force Sarcator are unleashing their newest single “Swarming Angels & Flies”, which will also be the title track of their upcoming album. The record, marking already the third full length release for the band, will be released on January 17th, 2025, via Century Media Records.

The album is now available for pre-order.

The title track “Swarming Angels & Flies” is accompanied by a performance video directed by Christoffer Tönnäng.

Listen to the single on your favorite DSP here and watch the video here.

Sarcator’s “Swarming Angels & Flies” sets the bar high for the upcoming album in terms of speed, heaviness and pure desire to see this song (and hopefully soon more) unfold live. Starting off like an explosion, the song delivers a sonic blast hurling the audience straight into a fire pit with raw, untamed energy.

Vocalist Mateo Tervonen shares about the single:

“Swarming Angels & Flies is the title track for our upcoming record for a reason. It represents the elements of the album perfectly and is one of those songs that you want to break the silence with. It erupts out of nowhere and hits you like a concrete fist. A perfect violent introduction of what’s to come and what this album really is about.”  

The title track does only offer a glimpse of what the upcoming album “Swarming Angels & Flies” will entail and yet one thing is certain: This album marks the most intense, brutal and rawest creation yet for the band. It is a remarkably mature and sophisticated piece of work, from mercurial musicians who are only in their early 20’s, and still at the beginning of their creative journey. Across eight, grotesque and utterly venomous tracks, Sarcator have deftly blended the wide-eyed extremity of their debut album with the inspirational musicality of their second record “Alkahest”, while playing everything with more intensity than ever before. Both deliriously melodic and mercilessly brutal: “Swarming Angels & Flies” is the most dangerously potent record the Swedens have made to date.

Sarcator share about the record and its creation process:  

“We wanted to highlight the most aggressive and extreme parts of us, but we still wanted to work with dynamics, so you still have elements of classic rock and post-punk, which we started experimenting with on the last record. There is no question that it’s our most intense, brutal, and rawest creation yet – It’s not really a genre album and we like to keep it that way.”

Sarcator will be joining Eradikated, Eternal Evil, and Bloodstain for the “The Rising Four” tour in autumn/winter 2024 with a total of 10 stops throughout Sweden. More information and tickets can be found here: https://luger.se/the-rising-four/

While the tour in Sweden will wrap up 2024 for the band, two festivals have already been announced for Sarcator in 2025 with many more live dates following soon.

Live 2025
25.-26.07.2025 Freißenbüttel (Germany) – Burning Q Festival
18.-20.09.2025 Schrobenhausen (Germany) – Metal im Woid 

At a juvenile age of 14-20, Sarcator released their first demo tape, “Visions of Purgatory”, via the American label Redefining Darkness Records in 2019. Just two years later the quadrumvirate got nominated for best rock/metal album for the Swedish music award P3 Guld with their 2020’s self-titled debut release for the same label. After releasing their 2^nd album, “Alkahest”, via Black Lion Records in 2022, Sarcator finally got a proper chance to play live, captivating crowds with their intense, blackened live shows. With their current line-up fully committed to the band despite their young age (all members are between 19 and 25) it was time for them to record their 3^rd album, which still features previous guitarist Emil Eriksson. Shortly after signing a new worldwide deal with Century Media Records and heading out on a debut European tour supporting Hellripper and Cloak, Sarcator will be releasing “Swarming Angels & Flies” on January 17^th, 2025. With plenty of live activity in support of the upcoming album, Sarcator are already at the forefront of an emergent, highly determined new generation of Scandinavian extreme metal bands and ready to take the rest of the world by storm soon too…

Sarcator Line Up
Sarcator 2024 are:
Mateo Tervonen – Vocals, Guitar
Felix Lindkvist – Bass
Leo Buchalle – Guitar
Jesper Rosén – Drums