ORBIT CULTURE Drop New Album, Death Above Life

The thudding Swedish metal powerhouse that is Orbit Culture dropped their newest album yesterday, the 3rd of October. The ten-track LP received nods from Metal Hammer in the UK, Kerrang!, and Metal Hammer and Rock Hard in Germany before its release, with Metal Hammer UK in particular writing that, “with an album as strong as this, Orbit Culture really should now be considered as legitimate contenders for heavy music’s next big breakthrough band for fans of modern, but classically inspired, metal, much like Lamb Of God and Machine Head have been in the past.”

Orbit Culture released their focus track, “Bloodhound,” the day before the album’s release (2nd October) alongside a horror film-influenced music video, putting their angriest foot forward. The band previously explained that “the album represents change, a new beginning. It brings up a lot of good and bad emotions but it’s a big change for the better. It feels like a rebirth.” And with that bad, comes anger. And “Bloodhound” is furious.

The band states that “‘Bloodhound’ is probably the angriest song we’ve written to date. We’ve always been somewhat reluctant to use explicit language in our music — maybe out of habit, maybe out of respect, we honestly don’t know. But when that opening riff came to life, it just had this raw, primal energy that demanded something more. The song sounded furious from the start, and to match that intensity, we knew it was time to break our own rules and let the anger speak freely.

“The lyrics came together faster than almost anything we’ve done before. It was like this outburst — a child-like hammering of aggression onto the page. Usually, we try to keep ourselves in check, to polish things a bit. But this track is the 1% of the time where we didn’t. Where we couldn’t.

“‘Bloodhound’ is about anger — at people, at situations, at an industry that often exploits the very people trying to make it within it. It’s about the cycle of revenge, the moments of acceptance, and then the anger flaring up again because nothing really changes. This song is about reclaiming your voice, your power, your worth. It’s about calling out the bloodsuckers, the manipulators — and making sure they don’t get to take from you anymore.”

You can check out Orbit Culture at their most poised here, and find the track listing below.

Tracklist

1. “Inferna”
2. “Bloodhound”
3. “Inside The Waves”
4. “The Tales Of War”
5. “Hydra”
6. “Nerve”
7. “Death Above Life”
8. “The Storm”
9. “Neural Collapse”
10. “The Path I Walk”