Frédéric Leclercq, virtuoso bass player of London-based power metallers Dragonforce, and Joey Jordison, formerly of Slipknot and currently of Vimic, have revealed details of their collaboration on an exciting new project, Sinsaenum.

Having worked on some material that owed more to death metal than the power metal of his day job as far back as 1998, Fred had long been concocting a plan to put together an extreme metal project. Having secured the involvement of Stéphane Buriez, a French scene icon with Loudblast for 30 years, it was only after an unexpected message from the US when things began to really take shape.

Fred explains: “Joey Jordison sent me an SMS to ask what I was up to, so I told him about those death metal songs.”

After the former Slipknot drummer had heard the demos, he wanted to know whom Frédéric had recruited to beat the skins. As there was nobody yet, he eagerly suggested adding his own ferocious style. Joey also had the idea for the name Sinsaenum, a fitting combination of the words “sin” and “insane”.

When it came to choose a voice for the trio’s godless tunes, it actually ended up with two, the main criterion being “death metal with a clear enunciation.” The first was no other than Attila Csihar from Norwegian black metal legends Mayhemm and drone masters Sunn O))), another long-time acquaintance of Leclercq’s and Jordison’s, notorious for his many registers ranging from tortured screams to throat singing. Sean Zatorsky from NWoAHM titans Daath and Chimaera became the other vocalist.

With another countryman of Frédéric’s – Heimoth, the brain of eclectic extremists Seth – completing the picture on bass, the material for Sinsaenum’s full-length was rounded off and perpetuated at different places.

The end result is titled Echoes Of The Tortured and was mixed in Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden, where Jens Bogren (Opeth, Kreator, Devin Townsend) put the finishing touches to 21 tracks that are – in one word – expansive.

For a taste of what to expect, check out the video for first track “Army Of Chaos” below. Echoes Of The Tortured will be released via EarMUSIC on July 29th.