MUTAGENIC HOST - "The Diseased Machine" cassette

The greatly anticipated debut full-length album "THE DISEASED MACHINE" from London's MUTAGENIC HOST is available now to preorder on limited edition cassette. It features 10 tracks of crushing British death metal with a hardcore ferocity and a lyrical concept detailing the troubling rise of Artificial Intelligence.

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Mutagenic Host are a five-piece band hailing from London, as part of the New Wave of British Death Metal (see also: Coffin Mulch, Celestial Sanctuary, Slimelord, Vacuous, Mortuary Spawn, etc.). The group comprises members from various parts of the UK and United States. With a diverse background spanning the hardcore, black metal, and death metal scenes, Mutagenic Host blend hardcore sensibilities and groove with the heavy, well-crafted sound reminiscent of '90s Floridian death metal.

Mutagenic Host dive into a technological apocalypse, examining a world overshadowed by hypocritical, insidious, and murderous global powers. The band is deeply disillusioned with the traditional themes of death metal and hardcore, feeling that these subjects no longer capture the urgency of the present. Instead, Mutagenic Host tackle the modern-day specters of complacency, apathy, and the looming threat of AI. Their work is an allegory for the systematic industrialization of humanity’s eradication — whether by human hands or by the machines we create to snuff out life. In this narrative, the instruments of the state use AI to monitor, control, and suppress the population, sounding a warning of impending doom through a fresh, intense lens in the death metal genre.

The Genotoxic Demo, unleashed in early 2023 via Dry Cough, featured four tracks that plunged listeners into a cerebral mulch while simultaneously slashing through them with a ruthlessness found in the streets. Following a year of relentless live performances alongside bands such as Incantation, Fulci, Fuming Mouth, Undeath, Celestial Sanctuary, Kruelty, Portrayal of Guilt, and Doldrey, Mutagenic Host have now finished writing, producing, and recording their inaugural full-length debut, The Diseased Machine.

Aptly titled, The Diseased Machine is a dark and thought-provoking journey into that post-plague world, which frankly doesn't feel so far away from present times. As a debut album, it consolidates Mutagenic Host's myriad strengths - stomping 'n' slamming grooves, world-eating heaviness, patient deployment of double-bass movement - and then intensifies them to an enviable degree. To be sure, the band are the proverbial well-oiled machine (but not diseased!) across the album's ten oft-twisting tracks, the clean-yet-crushing production amplifying their strident execution. And with their fluid shifting between tank-rolling downtempo and galloping bouts of speed, we can confidently declare The Diseased Machine as the epitome of "chug and slug" - Mutagenic Host have stormed the gates to further solidify their ferocious presence in the death metal scene!

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“This album is setting the clear benchmark for death metal in the year to come. Every track has purpose, every track has hooks, every track is well-written, and every track is HEAVY AS FUCK. Period.” - Ominous Vomit

“It’s cavernous, barbaric, epic and glacial, thick like molasses, and heavy on the mechanized atmosphere. I adore this album.” - Nine Circles

“The songs have been shaped by esoteric genecrafters into efficient killing machines. They chug, slam, and destroy, rending those around them into bloody tatters.” - Wonderbox Metal

“Every track has something new and hard-hitting to offer, solidifying The Diseased Machine as an album that doesn’t just close strong—it annihilates.” - Boolin Tunes

“If this album had come out in 2024, it would have made the top albums of the year list... Highly recommended.” - Flying Fiddlesticks

“The Diseased Machine lives up to that hype and then some more. It’s an extremely rewarding listen…” - The Razors Edge

“Mutagenic Host set the 2025 bar high early on with a wild showcase of brutality. Inventive, exciting, and surprisingly interesting… the brutal bar has been set very high with this album!” - GBHBL