Artist: PESTILENCE
Album: LEVELS OF PERCEPTION (CD)

Release date: 17.05.2024
EAN/UPS: 5908287133334
Media type: CD

• Pestilence is a progressive death metal phenom, labeled on the same genre-defying scale as Death, Cynic and Atheist.
• Founded in 1986, the band blazed the trail for generations of progressive death metal artists.
• Invariably guided by the long-established personality of founder, vocalist & guitarist, Patrick Mameli.
• Last album "Exitivm" (2021) ranked on Billboard charts, most notably including Billboard 200.
• 12 re-recorded, classic & distinctive Pestilence songs from their entire career.
• Drums were re-recorded in 2021, during a live stream held in T Paard (The Hague, NL).
• Guitars, bass & vocals were re-recorded at On Duty Studio (Mijdrecht, NL).
• Fine-tuning and re-recordings were done with Reaper behind the console.
• Engineered, mixed and mastered by the band's drummer Michiel van der Plicht (ex-God Dethroned & Carach Angren (live)).
• Cover artwork by Peter Suchy.

Genre-defying Dutch death metal legends Pestilence have singled-out and re-recorded twelve emblematic anthems from across their 38-year career into "Levels  of Perception". Patrick Mameli - whose signature vocal, guitar and songwriting skills constitute the hallmark of Pestilence - finds "Levels of Perception" to be a  testament to the band's role in death metal's progression. Re-recording of the tracks has not only managed to breathe new life into them - half thanks to new lineup, and other half by implementing subtle changes which reflect Mameli's matured vision and refined with years of experience aesthetic - but also sets them apart  from cheap, unimaginative compilations, by unifying the album's sound as befits a full-length release. "I've always wanted to do a best-of album, because it would  mean that I've achieved something in the past; something that still has its value today," Mameli comments. "To be able to choose from songs that I composed in  the distant past, transporting them into the now, with the line-up of the recordings that consisted of Michiel van der Plicht (drums), Rutger van Noordenburg (guitar)  and Joost van der Graaf (bass) - I found this to be of great value and sheer awesomeness."

CD/ LP:

01. Horror Detox
02. Mvlti Dimensional
03. Mobvs Propagationem
04. Sinister
05. Dehydrated
06. Dominatvi Svbmissa
07. Land of Tears
08. Necromorph
09. Deificvs
10. Twisted Truth
11. Sempiternvs
12. Ovt of the Body