The Lurking Fear, which features frontman Tomas Lindberg (At The Gates, ex-Lock Up), guitarists Jonas Stålhammar (God Macabre, Crippled Black Phoenix) and Fredrik Wallenberg (Skitsystem), bassist Andreas Axelson (ex-Edge Of Sanity, ex-Marduk), and drummer Adrian Erlandsson (At The Gates, The Haunted), has unsurprisingly announced that it's going to be death metal.
In an announcement made by the band alongside the news that they've signed with Century Media, The Lurking Fear has stated it'll be the death metal it wants to hear, and not really adhering to any trends.
"We are a Death Metal band. Not your average new wave of old school Death Metal band. We play Death Metal from the heart with pure emotional impact and a focused artistic vision. This is the music we live and breathe. Always have, always will. We have all played in various other bands for over 25 years and we just want to spew out the music that we want to hear. When we get together this is what comes out of naturally, because we share the exact same reference points. We love 'Seven Churches' and 'Mental Funeral' for the exact same reasons. We want our Death Metal ugly, twisted and possessed. We miss the urgency, intensity and 'realness' in a lot of the modern Death Metal, therefore it is natural for us to stray away from the streamlined sounds of today, but rather focus on bringing sheer, natural weirdness and horror back to the table…"
The Lurking Fear is also planning on having a 7" out by May and an album this summer. With a lineup like that, it's kind of hard to imagine that this is going to be anything less than great, right?
