With just under a month until the release of their Revocation Of The Blood Elect EP, out November 20th via French label Great Dane Records, Northern Irish death metallers Rex Shachath are posting a series of videos over the coming weeks which take the viewer behind the scenes and into the studio where the recording took place. With a good dose of tongue in cheek, these clips will show snippets of the band at work in Sonic Forge Studio in Cardiff, Wales, with producer Joe Thompson, tracking the songs of the EP but also the tomfoolery and mischief you often find when five grown men have spent far too long in too small of a place.

This first episode focuses on drum tracking, drummer Jay Rogers comments on the process. "In the beginning it was quite tough. We had planned to travel to the studio the day before recording, get a good nights sleep and start work first thing the next day. We started our journey from our hometown of Belfast and headed two hours south to Dublin to catch a ferry across the Irish Sea to Holyhead, Wales, before driving the length of the country to Cardiff. Mother nature quickly threw up a few obstacles... First of all when we arrived in Dublin we found out our ferry crossing had been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions. We managed to catch a crossing later that evening and what should have taken a few hours took much, much longer. The swell was so bad at the port that the ferry couldn't dock, so we had to go back out to sea. The ferry was basically a sitting duck waiting for the sea to calm down at port. It was miserable, the ship was rocking so bad and you couldn't stand up without falling over. Everyone, young and old, it didn't matter, everyone was on the floor. Once we finally docked, we started our journey towards Cardiff. The problem was, it was now the early hours of the morning, I was due to start tracking in a few hours, and I was also the designated driver and only one insured to drive the vehicle. Anyway... we eventually got to Cardiff some hours later, parked up, and I went straight into the live room to set up and start tracking. No sleep. It was a long day but man was I glad for some sleep that night."

Revocation Of The Blood Elect EP might not be what people are expecting if they're familiar with the band's debut offering Sepulchral Torment. Since that release the band have had time to coalesce and where Sepulchral Torment had more of an 'old school' sound, Revocation Of The Blood Elect is an entirely new animal. Tackling social issues such as the state of modern society and man's exorbitant desire for wealth at the expense of our natural world, the band have harnessed a sound more befitting to such issues on their forthcoming record. Old school ideals kneaded with modern death metal notions on a much more up to date and punchier production is what we have here. Revocation Of The Blood Elect carries a sound as big if not bigger than its message.

A music video for title track can be found below. Vocalist Dave Connolly comments of the track, “This song sees those in positions of power overthrown and put to the sword by man who has endured the oppression of those who would see humanity and the natural world struggle beneath them while they profit from the destruction of man and the earth.”

Artwork (as seen below), was completed by UK artist Godmachine famed for his work with bands such as Suicide Silence, Bring Me The Horizon, Cannibal Corpse and Job For A Cowboy to name a few. The EP was recorded, mixed and mastered by Joe Thompson at Sonic Forge Studio, Cardiff, Wales.

Tracklisting:

“Atonement Through Atrocity”
“Impious Axiom”
“Revocation Of The Blood Elect”
“Within The Temple Of Disgust” (Featuring Ben McCrow)
“Colossus Rise”

Pre-Order Revocation Of The Blood Elect here.