PRESSING INFO:

First Press

Metallic Silver Standard Gram

238 x Custom Marble Standard Gram *Relapse.com Exclusive*

133 x Swamp Green, Metallic Silver and Mustard Yellow Tri Color Merge with Swamp Green, Metallic Silver and Mustard Yellow Splatter Standard Gram *Relapse.com Exclusive*

100 x Clear (Not available to the public - Friends of band and label only)

MALTHUSIAN sign to Relapse Records and unearth their deathly opus, The Summoning Bell. 

On their highly anticipated new album, MALTHUSIAN's fetid hallmarks are ever present: truly unforgiving, unrelenting Death Metal.
Swirling chords and ominous cymbal swells give way to the band's opener "Red, Waiting". What follows is a flurry of murk and madness - blast beats pummel against churns of distortion. The sonic atmosphere cultivated by MALTHUSIAN's palpable fury is suffocating; each riff carefully crafted to push and pull on the momentum behind their music. The Summoning Bell is undeniably a pitch-black take on the genre. 

The Summoning Bell is a lighting of the pyre - each of the album's tracks explore themes of true nothingness, condemnations of superstition, and a profound descent into darkness and time. The end result is a record that seemingly reconciles with a dimming - internal and external, a true end  to everything. 

"We aimlessly search

Giving purpose to the nothing

Creating false comforts within 

To hold in an eternal abyss.

To exist between the dying sun and a rising moon

With a constant dull ache

Eyes closed

Bitter taste"

Release date: August 8, 2025