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SLAUGHTERDAY comment: “The title track, ‘Dread Emperor’, represents quintessential Slaughterday”, guitarist Jens Finger points out. “It takes you on an unrelenting journey through old school death metal, from slow, crushing doom to blistering aggression, which is crowned by soaring melodic solos.”

Bernd Reiners adds: “The song’s lyrics portray the ‘Dread Emperor’ as the ultimate embodiment of fear itself, a timeless force that rules through terror and despair”, the frontman writes. “With a world consumed by oppression, hopelessness, and submission, this track channels darkness and chaos to mirror the raw power of fear unleashed, making it both a sonic and thematic assault.”

Tracklist
1. Enthroned
2. Obliteration Crusade
3. Rapture of Rot
4. Astral Carnage
5. Subconscious Pandemonium
6. Dread Emperor
7. The Forsaken Ones
8. Necrocide
9. Dethroned
10. Golem (Protector cover)

With their sixth full-length “Dread Emperor”, SLAUGHTERDAY deliver everything that they excel in, which is also precisely what their fans want from the duo: perfectly executed old school death metal with a wicked twist.

From crushing doom-ridden ultra-heavy parts to calculated outbreaks of utter brutality, this record offers everything a still beating death metal heart could ask for. And of course, those cosmic horrors of the Great Old Ones, forbidden sounds, and tentacled death metal are still rising. The German band has also added more deeper meaning to their tales of cosmic terrors as a healthy antidote to stereotypes.

Band: Slaughterday
Album title: Dread Emperor
Style: Death Metal
Release date: February 13, 2026
Label: Testimony Records
Review impact date: January 19, 2026

Line-up
Jens Finger – guitars, bass
Bernd Reiners – vocals, drums

Live line-up
Jens Finger – guitars
Bernd Reiners – vocals
Tobias Koops – guitar
Ulf Imwiehe – bass
Tom Hoffmann – drums

Cover artwork by Pär Olofsson
Layout by Hiko (Sattsign.com)

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