MetalSucks

The Netherlands’ God Dethroned is band # 2,586,923 that we don’t talk about enough around here. I wasn’t really that familair with them until 2006’s The Toxic Touch, but if you’re a fan of European melodeath, you should absolutely check this band out.

And here’s your chance: the group just posted a new song, “Under a Darkening Sky,” on their MySpace page. It’s our first taste of music from the band’s forthcoming album, Passiondale (And I wanna go on record right now as saying that I like the album’s name better in its original Dutch – Passchendaele – just because for some reason it makes me giggle. Passchendaele. Tee hee.), and I think it bodes well for the rest of the record.

And because I can just seem some idiot complaing that the name Passiondale sounds like some pussy soap opera, I would like to preemptively tell that person to learn your fucking history.

Passiondale will be released Metal Blade Records in Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Italy on April 24, 2009 and in the rest of Europe on April 26. I have no idea about an American release date but hopefully it will be somewhere in that vicinity, too.

-AR