Bodysnatcher Announces New Album "Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home"; Releases New Music Video "The Maker"

South Florida deathcore mainstays Bodysnatcher have today announced their upcoming new album "Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home," to be released 10th April via MNRK Heavy.

The full-length will be the band's latest body of new music since 2024's acclaimed EP, "Vile Conduct." In celebration of the announcement, the quartet released their new rager "The Maker" and the official music video, which you can check out below.

The band comment: "We’re extremely excited to finally start sharing this album with everyone. We think it’s the bands strongest work. We finally accomplished the sound we’ve been aiming for from the start."

There are many clichés about battling adversity. That if you fall down, you get back up again. That what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That it’s the journey that’s important, not the end result. That the struggle is worth it, that you need to suffer to make great art. It’s not always true, of course, but "Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home" certainly makes a strong case for that argument. The fourth full-length from Melbourne, FL deathcore outfit Bodysnatcher, it follows 2024’s brutal Will Putney-produced EP, "Vile Conduct" and serves up another powerful barrage of uncompromising deathcore across 10 incredible tracks that see the four piece - Kyle Medina (vocals), Kyle Carter (guitar), Kyle Shope (bass) and Chris Whited (drums) - turn the catharsis up as loud and as visceral as it will go.

Of course, that’s nothing new for the band. If you’ve heard "Vile Conduct," or any of the three albums that preceded it - 2017’s "Death Of Me," 2020’s "The Heavy Void" or 2022’s "Bleed-Abide" - you’ll know this is a band who have always pitted themselves against personal tragedy, who have fought on individual levels against the dark depths of a despair (often inspired by their own experiences of death). "Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home" is no less harrowing.

"The band has always had roots lyrically in themes of betrayal, overcoming hardship, and moving on from things that happen in life and how to cope with them," explains Medina. "Ever since the inception of Bodysnatcher, that was the theme. I do think, though, as the band has matured and we as people have grown, so have the ways to dig into the themes more. With more life experience there are more things to draw from." Yet while this is still a viciously personal record, "Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home" is also a dark reflection of the world at large, and its current dystopia. It doesn’t just dwell on what’s happening, though. It lashes out at the way things are with a terrible, violent rage.

That manifests itself from the very beginning of this record, from opener 'The Maker' on. A sheer assault of rage, noise and skullcrushing riffs, it multiplies Bodysnatcher’s intensity to a degree that, even by their already intense standards, is off the charts.

That direct darkness continues throughout the entirety of the next nine songs, from the unforgiving vengeance of "Writhe And Coil" and 'Violent Obsession' through to the blistering defiance of "Blade Between The Teeth" and "Survive Or Die." The latter features vocals from Scott Vogel, the frontman of hardcore legends Terror, a band very close to Bodysnatcher’s blackened heart. It follows the previous impressive cameo on "Vile Conduct" by Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta.

Vogel’s appearance shows just how much of a mark Bodysnatcher have made on the scene. But it’s not distracting them from their intent and purpose. In fact, that only seems to have been refined as time has passed. The band are full of rage with a purpose, rage full of intention, rage with hope still attached to it. Because even though it was born out of incredibly difficult circumstances, both personal and universal, Bodysnatcher’s hope is that people listening to it can find some kind of solace in it alongside all the anger and the rage.

Tracklisting:

1. The Maker
2. Writhe And Coil
3. Plague Of Flies
4. May Your Memory Rot
5. Violent Obsession
6. No Savior
7. Blade Between The Teeth
8. Two Empty Caskets
9. Survive Or Die
10. Hell Is Home