This Friday (February 10th), Distant – the multinational down-tempo/deathcore juggernaut from Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and the Slovak Republic – will release their third full-length, Heritage, via Century Media Records. For a preview of Heritage, the new single/video for the title track – feat. Lorna Shore‘s Will Ramos! – can be seen here: https://youtu.be/amt9dFlm8go
Distant comments: “‘Heritage’, the title track from the newest Distant album, is a playful and colorful track featuring Will Ramos from Lorna Shore.
“‘Heritage’ is a breathtakingly heavy track yet still emotional, with a huge chorus and pace to last you for days, showcasing the diversity of our Dutch/Slovak collective!
“At last, the father and son cross blades; during this exhausting battle, they remember the times forgotten as the clash of their blades sparks new light and brings up the twisted revelation of this catastrophic deception.”
The videos for the previously released singles can be viewed below:
–“Argent Justice” (feat. 16 vocalists from Suicide Silence, Emmure, Bodysnatcher, Angelmaker, Cabal, Crown Magnetar, Paleface and more!): https://youtu.be/ftI9pAMASMI
–“Exofilth”: https://youtu.be/ykKhnLk8y6Q
–“Human Scum”: https://youtu.be/SojM5WYwSpI
–“Orphan Of Blight”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ud9ybyRZI
Pre-order Heritage now at: https://DistantBand.lnk.to/Heritage – where the record is available in the following formats:
–Ltd. CD Digipak
–Black LP
–Transp. red LP available from CM Distro Wholesale EU, CMdistro.de and USA outlets (limited to 500 copies)
–White LP available from CM Distro Wholesale EU and CMdistro.de (limited to 300 copies)
–White-red marbled LP available from Distant (limited to 500 copies)
–Digital album
Distant has become one of the prominent faces of European Deathcore. Melding together brutal death metal, slam, noise and beatdown with a hyper-dissonant orchestra of impending doom, they’ve come eons since their origins as metalcore obsessed friends in Rotterdam and Bratislava. Heritage, the quintet’s Century Media debut and third installment of bone crushing, thick-as-concrete heaviness, takes their trademark “Downtempo/Deathcore” and pushes it into the red. “It’s low and slow,” smirks vocalist Alan Grnja, describing the band’s sound. “Musically, lyrically, we try to travel the uncharted and come up with something you can only call Distant.“
Produced by the band’s guitarist Nouri Yetgin and Within Destruction guitarist Howard Fang plus co-producer Simone Pietroforte, Heritage is Distant‘s coming of age and reckoning moment. “This is the perfect Distant record,” says Alan. “I want it to be a genre-defining album in the same way ‘The Cleansing’ was for Suicide Silence – I would say this album is for us.”
Heritage track-listing:
1. Acid Rain
2. Paradigm Shift
3. Born Of Blood
4. The Grief Manifest
5. Exofilth
6. Argent Justice
7. The Gnostic Uprising
8. A Sentence To Suffer
9. Human Scum
10. Heritage
11. Orphan Of Blight
12. Plaguebreeder
Next month, Distant will join Bodysnatcher, Angelmaker, and Paleface (all guests on “Argent Justice”!) for a tour across the USA. See below for all dates!
Distant tour dates
w/ Bodysnatcher, Angelmaker, Paleface
Mar. 1, 2023 – West Palm, FL – Respectables
Mar. 2, 2023 – Orlando, FL – The Abbey
Mar. 3, 2023 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
Mar. 4, 2023 – Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819
Mar. 5, 2023 – Nashville, TN – The End (low tickets)
Mar. 6, 2023 – St. Louis, MO – Red Flag
Mar. 7, 2023 – Kansas City, MO – The Rino
Mar. 8, 2023 – Oklahoma City, OK – 89th St. (low tickets)
Mar. 9, 2023 – Dallas, TX. – Trees
Mar. 10, 2023 – San Antonio, TX – The Rock Box
Mar. 11, 2023 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
Mar. 13, 2023 – Mesa, AZ – Nile Underground
Mar. 14, 2023 – Anaheim, CA – Chain Reaction (sold-out)
Mar. 15, 2023 – Fresno, CA – Strummers
Mar. 16, 2023 – Roseville, CA – Goldfields
Mar. 17, 2023 – San Francisco, CA – Neck Of The Woods
Mar. 18, 2023 – Las Vegas, NV – American Legion Post 8
Mar. 19, 2023 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
Mar. 20, 2023 – Denver, CO – HQ
Mar. 21, 2023 – Omaha, NE – 1867 Bar
Mar. 22, 2023 – Chicago, IL – Subterranean (sold-out)
Mar. 23, 2023 – Detroit, MI – Sanctuary (sold-out)
Mar. 24, 2023 – Cleveland, OH – The Winchester (low tickets)
Mar. 25, 2023 – Pittsburgh, PA – Preserving Underground
Mar. 26, 2023 – Mechanicsburg, PA – Lovedraft’s
Mar. 27, 2023 – Brooklyn, NY – The Brooklyn Monarch
Mar. 28, 2023 – Hartford, CT – Webster Underground
Mar. 29, 2023 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium
Photo credit: Luca Roman
Distant line-up:
Alan Grnja – vocals
Elmer Maurits – bass guitar
Nouri Yetgin – lead guitar
Vladimir Golic – rhythm guitar
Jan Mato – drums