Photo by: Jordan Burke
Official press release:
UK technical death metal stalwarts Ingested will release their Denigration full-length on May 8th via Metal Blade Records.
For nearly two decades, Manchester’s Ingested has stood as one of the UK’s most uncompromising forces in extreme metal. Champions of a sound that fuses precision brutality with increasingly dynamic songwriting, they’ve evolved from underground slam pioneers into a globally recognized, forward-driving powerhouse. With Denigration, the band begins a bold new chapter, one defined by reinvention, sharpened purpose and the arrival of a new voice at the helm.
At the core of this evolution remains founding members Sean Hynes (guitars, backing vocals) and Lyn Jeffs (drums), the creative backbone whose vision, chemistry, and relentless drive have powered Ingested since day one. They are joined by vocalist Josh Davies, guitarist/vocalist Andrew Virrueta, and bassist Thomas O’Malley, completing a lineup that delivers the band’s most dynamic and commanding work to date.
Produced by Nico Beninato at The Arch Studios in Southport, UK, Denigration captures Ingested at their sharpest and most forward-thinking. The album’s visual identity is equally striking, featuring artwork by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design, whose detailed, eerie imagery reflects the record’s thematic depth and ferocious tone.
Further amplifying its scope and intensity, Denigration includes standout collaborations such as “Merciless Reflection” (featuring Damonteal Harris of PeelingFlesh) and “Watch You Fold” (featuring John Gallagher of Dying Fetus), along with additional contributions from Skyler Conder (Cell) and Kyle Medina (Bodysnatcher).
Lyrically and sonically, Denigration is a reckoning. The album is about being ground down to your smallest, ugliest version and deciding whether to give in to or weaponize it. The result is a body of work that hits harder, cuts deeper, and showcases a band unafraid to evolve while honoring the relentless extremity that forged their name. The band comments:
“Musically, it’s us pulling every thread we’ve laid down over the years, slam, groove, melody, blackened dissonance, and twisting it into something that feels like a definitive statement rather than a reset. This is the sound of being dragged through the dirt and refusing to stay there.”
Of the album’s lead single, “Merciless Reflection”, the band further elaborates:
“‘Merciless Reflection’ lives inside the worst room in your head. The lyrics are a spiral of intrusive thoughts, religious disillusion, and self-loathing, that feeling of turning over the same ‘barbaric cycles’ until you don’t know if you’re chasing salvation or just feeding the disease. Faith is no comfort here; it’s another blade. The narrator is banished, molded into ‘nothing but a big mistake,’ picking through the wreckage of belief and realizing redemption was never guaranteed in the first place.
Musically, this is a deliberate love letter to the era that formed us: straight-up, no-bullshit slam. It’s primitive in all the right way, knuckle-dragging riffs, caveman groove, sections built for bodies hitting the floor, but framed with the tightness and production we’ve grown into. Bringing in D from PeelingFlesh to deliver those disgusting, gurgling vocals was about honoring the sound we grew up on and planting our flag in it now. If you’ve ever wanted that old Ingested ugliness back, this is us saying we never lost it, we just learned how to aim it.”
Ingested’s Denigration will be released digitally, on CD with two bonus tracks, and on vinyl in the following color variants:
- Monopile Electric Blue Smoke (US)
- Hot Pink and Purple Smoke (US)
- Red Marbled (EU – Ltd. 500)
- Purple With Red And White Highlights (EU – Ltd. 300)
- Clear Turquoise Blue w/ Red + Neonpink Splatter (EU – Ltd. 300)
- Hot Pink w/ Purple Amoeba (Band UK Exclusive – Ltd. 300)
Find preorders at MetalBlade.com/Ingested and the Ingested webpage at Ingested.co.uk.
Denigration track listing:
- “Dragged Apart” feat. Skyler Conder (Cell)
- “Merciless Reflection” feat. Damonteal Harris (PeelingFlesh)
- “Watch You Fold” feat. John Gallagher (Dying Fetus)
- “Stitch By Stitch”
- “We Are All Inherently Evil”
- “Dredge The Dark” feat. Kyle Medina (Bodysnatcher)
- “Oaths Betrayed”
- “Beaten Beyond the Veil”
- “Steel Toe Truth”
- “Cold Sun”
