Founding DEEDS OF FLESH member Erik Lindmark has issued the following statement:

"A couple years back we did a drastic member change where I decided to go from doing both vocals and guitar to just guitar and backing vocals, and adding Corey Athos (FLESH CONSUMED) to the lineup. Corey was going to take over basically all of the vocal duties, allowing me to concentrate more on just playing guitar and doing some back ups here and there. We thought this would be a good move allowing the vocals to be more aggressive and in your face like on our last release, Of What's To Come.

We made the decision while writing this album which is why you hear the progression in both vocals and guitar work from our previous releases. This would also allow myself to get a bit more technical and crazy on the guitar work as you hear with the added leads and over writing on OWTC.

Unfortunately the years of playing has taken its toll on my left, or fret arm, and I have been diagnosed with a severe level of tendonitis. Recording is not an issue because songs are broken up into small sections and I am still recording on the new release, Portals To Canaan, but live is an issue. If I play for more then about two minutes straight, I get an overwhelming amount of pain in my fret arm and can no longer put any pressure on the (guitar) neck and have to stop.

This in turn live would leave nothing for me to do if Corey is doing vocals and I need to be replaced on guitar. So what we have decided is I will be doing all vocals live, but not playing guitar. Might be a bit weird but it's either that or quit, which I do not want to do. On future releases I will still contribute to the writing process and recording, so I won't be completely out of the loop as far as guitar work goes.

Inevitably this means Corey will not be part of the current lineup. He put in a tremendous amount of effort on the lyrics for Portals To Canaan and will get writing credits in the release. We wish him the best with Flesh Consumed and all other future projects. This was a very difficult decision for me, but I feel it is the only decision to move forward with Deeds Of Flesh. I am trying to remedy the situation but we are planning on touring for the new release next year and didn't want this to be a surprise, so thought this should be brought on now rather then later."

Deeds Of Flesh will release Portals To Canaan on January 29th, 2013.

Artwork for the album was created by Raymond Swanland and can be viewed below:

A pre-production advanced teaser track of new material from Portals To Canaan has been issued. Says the band: "This is only guitar one and drum mapping (no second guitar, leads or vocals) to give the fans an idea of whats to come."