Abhorrent Decimation Commissions Sculptures For New Video

U.K. death metal outfit Abhorrent Decimation is pleased to announce the band will be teaming up with a group of sculptors for an innovative new music video.

The London based wrecking crew has teamed up with the Head of Foundations (David Tinn) and two artists (Jonny Cavaciuti & Olivia Davis) at East Surrey College to commission the creation of a series of sculptures to be used in the band's next music video.

The band's album, as of yet untitled, is slated for release later this year and is in the final stages of mixing and mastering under the scrutiny of producer Ronnie Björnström, Enhanced Audio Productions (Garageland Studios, Sweden).

Whilst Abhorrent Decimation prepares for an upcoming U.K. tour with French death metal heavyweights Benighted and Scotland's Cancerous Womb, vocalist Ashley Scott gives us an overview of the project as he oversees the sculpture commission beginning to take form:

“We've been incredibly fortunate to have pulled this off... I had such big ideas for the first official music video that we would be putting out with this album. I can't go into great detail of the concept behind it all yet but I wanted the band mutated and frozen in ice BUT I didn’t want it done using CGI.

"Turns out, that was a bit of an ambitious ask. I then thought about doing the whole band as a set of sculptures and freezing those. So I contacted my old friend and mentor David about the possibility of collaborating with his foundation students at the college and the rest is history. He asked that I create a brief for the project and since then the artists have just run with it. We took the first sample casts of my head a few weeks back and we are really happy with the results. Next, the whole band will be in to have moulds taken of their heads.

"From there, the artists will then need a little time to work on these objects before we can have them frozen and then begin shooting the vid. I really wanted to bring one song in particular to life, having these sculptures frozen in ice will do exactly that and it's something a little different, this is an interesting marriage of music and art. You don't see that much. And once the album is released I would love to exhibit these pieces in London.”

You can also see the band live on these dates:

11/04/15 Croydon, The Scream Lounge
12/04/15 Bristol, The Exchange
13/04/15 Liverpool, The Magnet
14/04/15 Edinburgh, Bannermans
15/04/15 Leeds, Temple of Boom
16/04/15 Birmingham, The Flapper
17/04/15 Reading, The Facebar
19/04/15 Tilburg, Neurotic Deathfest
28/04/15 Brighton, The Prince Albert
23/05/15 Southampton, The Firehouse