MALTHUSIAN: New Album The Summoning Bell Out Now On Relapse Records

Photo by Kate M.

Ireland’s MALTHUSIAN unearths their deathly opus, The Summoning Bell, today via Relapse Records!

On The Summoning Bell, MALTHUSIAN‘s fetid hallmarks are ever present: truly unforgiving, unrelenting death metal. Swirling chords and ominous cymbal swells give way to the band’s opener “Red, Waiting.” What follows is a flurry of murk and madness – blastbeats pummel against churns of distortion. The sonic atmosphere cultivated by MALTHUSIAN‘s palpable fury is suffocating; each riff carefully crafted to push and pull on the momentum behind their music. The Summoning Bell is undeniably a pitch-black take on the genre.

The Summoning Bell is a lighting of the pyre – each of the album’s tracks explore themes of true nothingness, condemnations of superstition, and a profound descent into darkness and time. The end result is a record that seemingly reconciles with a dimming – internal and external, a true end of everything.

Stream MALTHUSIAN’s The Summoning Bell HERE.

Watch MALTHUSIAN’s video for “The Summoning Bell,” directed by Ray K Media, HERE.

The Summoning Bell is available on 2xLP, CD, and digital formats. Find orders at Relapse.com HERE and listen on all streaming services HERE.

MALTHUSIAN Live:
11/07/2025 Lost Lane – Dublin, IE
11/13-15/2025 Ascension Festival – Hlégarður, IS

MALTHUSIAN:
MB – guitar, vocals
TMK – guitar
FB – bass
JK – drums

“MATHUSIAN‘s chaotic blackened death metal is more naturalistic than that of a band like Portal or Teitanblood – recalling torrential rain on weathered stone, mud swirlin below, Bree bellowing from a rapidly flowing crypt – though no less infernal. At it’s tripped out best, [The Summoning Bell] reimagines Perpetual Hanneman/King lead tradeoffs as death metal songs, and births way more earworms than this stuff usually does.” – Decibel Magazine

“…one of the more gripping death metal albums I’ve heard this year.” – Everything Is Noise

“Prepare for: dismal, dissonant, yet also wickedly delirious and spasmodically deranged fretwork, avalanche drums (which also fire like weaponry), monstrously abyssal gutturals, and screeching howls.”  – Nine Circles

Cover art by Mitchell Nolte

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