A new song called 'Junkies On The Storm' from Danish modern metallers MNEMIC is now available for streaming at this location (scroll to the bottom of the page).

Guitarist/songwriter Mircea Gabriel Eftemie shares a little background on the song’s crushing main riff:

“I demoed the riff for the last album (2010’s Sons Of The System), and it sounded horrible. When we started the writing process for Mnemesis, I went through the pile of demo songs I had and played some stuff for (guitarist) Victor-Ray. He then took the riff and started toying around with it. All of a sudden, he started bending it. I thought it sounded really awesome, since it had a PANTERA-esque feel to it, and from there on, we started building the song. I told him to play it over and over again, and the rest is history. Something funny about our time in the studio: Our bassist Simone lives in the countryside in Italy, so he brought in some sausage from the farm. Yeah, you guessed it - we all ate his Italian sausage.”

In response to the rumor that he was bitten by red ants while tracking in the studio, vocalist Guillaume Bideau shares:

“Hell no! There ain't no ants in Antfarm Studios, but a lot booze instead! I don't make vocal demos - I start working on the composition of the vocals when I'm in the studio, behind my microphone. I like to improvise and keep it as spontaneous as possible. I usually start working pretty late, around 10 PM, but during the Mnemesis sessions, I sometimes surprised myself by starting to record at 2 AM and that was the case for this song. I was not really in the mood for singing that evening - it happens sometimes. It took me at least 20 minutes to get into the mood. But once I recorded the first sentence, an ocean of ideas invaded my head and it only took me two hours to compose and record the vocals. I listened to the entire song just once before going to bed because I was very tired. The day after, it was absolutely impossible for me to remember anything of what I had recorded a few hours earlier. I had a great surprise when I played the song!! One of my top songs on this damn album!! Along with the nine other ones, heh heh.”

Mnemic's new album, Mnemesis, due out today (June 8th) in Europe and the 19th in North America via Nuclear Blast. Check out the album cover artwork by Metastazis (MORBID ANGEL, PARADISE LOST, ULVER) below:

The tracklist for Mnemesis is as follows:

'Transcend'

'Valves'

'Junkies On The Storm'

'I’ve Been You'

'Pattern Platform'

'Mnemesis'

'There’s No Tomorrow'

'Haven At The End Of The World'

'Ocean Of Void'

'Blue Desert In A Black Hole'

Bonus Track:

'Empty Planet'