Brazilian heavy metal icons, Sepultura, will unleash their new studio album, Machine Messiah, on January 13th via Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band have released the first digital single, "I Am The Enemy". Fans, who pre-order the album digitally now will receive the track immediately.

Pre-order Machine Messiah now at this location.Pre-order the digital version (including “I Am The Enemy”) here.

Andreas Kisser states: "The song “I Am The Enemy” was one of the last songs we worked on before going to Sweden to record the album, it's really simple and straight forward with a strong influence of the hardcore scene of the 90's.

“The lyrics talk about ourselves as human beings, with concepts and pre-concepts implanted in our heads through education, religion, the environment and all of our own experiences. We are the problem and the solution, do not blame anything or anyone else but yourself, you are your own enemy. Face yourself, rethink your life and then you'll have a chance to make a better world for yourself.

“We are playing the song live already and the reaction is being amazing, now you all have the chance to listen to the album version, play it loud!"

On October 29th, Sepultura performed at the Rock Concha Festival 2016 in Salvador, and during their set the band premiered the new song "I Am The Enemy". Pro-shot video of Sepultura's entire show can be viewed below; "I Am The Enemy" starts at the 1:21:45 mark.

Machine Messiah was produced by the band and Jens Borgen (Soilwork, Opeth, Katatonia, Amon Amarth) of Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden. The cover artwork for Machine Messiah was created by Filipino artist Camille Della Rosa.

"I found the work of Camille Della Rosa during some research I was doing to look for alternative artists to work on the cover of our new album," states Andreas Kisser. "I had the concept in my mind and the name of the album, Machine Messiah, but that didn’t matter much since I was looking for different styles and ideas, different artists. When I saw her paintings I was really impressed by her style, full of colors and meaning, very unique, and alive! She comes from the Philippines, a place where we performed some years ago and we could feel the intensity of their culture, very powerful! She has that power in her paintings and drawings!

“The main inspiration around Machine Messiah is the robotization of our society nowadays. The concept of a God Machine who created humanity and now it seems that this cycle is closing itself, returning to the starting point. We came from machines and we are going back to where we came from. The messiah, when he returns, will be a robot, or a humanoid, our bio-mechanical savior.

“The painting “Deus Ex-Machina” is a masterpiece! I was really shocked to see how her concept of the painting was a perfect fit to our concept! The cover was done 6 years ago for our new album and she didn’t know it! Neither did I but I’m glad we crossed each others paths. Camille’s work is intense and in your face. We are lucky to have such a great artist working with us, she’s kind and very talented. She brings something new and exciting to a career of 32 years during which amazing artists have created memorable and iconic album covers.

“I’m very happy with everything about Machine Messiah, it is a Sepultura album but with a new direction and intensity, a new musical challenge, a step forward! Can’t wait to show the world our music for the new Messiah coming."  

Machine Messiah tracklisting:

“Machine Messiah”
“I Am The Enemy”
“Phantom Self”
“Alethea”
“Iceberg Dances”
“Sworn Oath”
“Resistant Parasites”
“Silent Violence”
“Vandals Nest”
“Cyber God”

Album teaser:

Studio Diary videos:

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In early 2017, German thrash giants Kreator will tour Europe in support of their upcoming record. Legendary guitarist/singer Mille Petrozza and his crew will be accompanied by a varied as well as iconic billing. Sepultura are announced to be direct support to the headliners, followed by visionary Swedish melodic death metallers Soilwork and Belgium’s finest death/grind outfit, Aborted.

Tour dates:

February
2 - Tilburg, Netherlands - 013
3 - Munich, Germany - Tonhalle
4 - Hamburg, Germany - Mehr! Theater
6 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Amager Bio
7 - Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
12 - Tallinn, Estonia - Rock Cafe
13 - Vilnius, Lithuania - Siemens Arena
15 - Warsaw, Poland - Progresja
17 - Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof
18 - Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
19 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
21 - Trezzo, Italy - Live Club
22 - Grenoble, France - Summum
23 - Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz
24 - Madrid, Spain - Riviera
25 - Toulouse, France - Bikini
26 - Paris, France - Bataclan
28 - Manchester, England - Academy

March
1 - Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street
2 - London, England - O2 Forum
3 - Torhout, Belgium - De Mast
4 - Essen, Germany - Grugahalle

Sepultura released a special EP titled Sepultura Under My Skin last year. It’s cover was created around images of different tattoos that the band's fans sent in. To show their fan base more about the emergence of this release, the sixth part of Sepultura Under My Skin - The Mediator UK Tour 2015, edited and directed by D.O. Blackley (Her Name Is Murder Productions), was recently launched. Watch six parts below:

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