Cult Swedish maestros WOMBBATH return both with album number 7 Beyond The Abyss and Pulverised Records ten years after first working together.

Back in 2015, when it was announced that a recently reformed WOMBBATH had signed to Pulverised Records and would soon release their first album twenty-two years, fans weren't sure what to expect.

After all, after their cult 1993 debut on Thrash Records, the band last sign of life until then was the ill-fated death n'roll inspired and ill-received Lavatory EP and only main songwriter and guitarist Håkan Stuvermark remained from the original line-up.

Little did they know that the aforementioned 'reunion album' Downfall Rising was to be such a roller-coaster.

With then SYN:DROM/SKINEATER and future MASSACRE Jonny Pattersson in their ranks on vocals, WOMBBATH 2.0 proved to be a meaner, faster and far more menacing entity.

Fast forward a decade: Four more extra full-length later and armed with a recently revamped line-up, the Swedes (plus one Brit, mind you) are back on Pulverised Records with what Stuvemark himself simply describes as the "first album since Downfall Rising we've been welded together this good musically.

It's just there!" After a digital EP in profit of the UNHCR (The Weight Of Reality) in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, work began in the spring of 2022, a little over six months after the mammoth that was the sixteen tracks, 72 minutes that was their last album to date Agma had been released.

"I had a bunch of songs written and so did Jonny, and Thomas (van Wachenfeldt, who joined on guitar in 2018) was about to.

But our then drummer Jon Rudin decision to leave the band after one last show at the Symbolic Open Air Festival in Czech Republic forced us to change our plans.

It's only once we found his replacement, former DEAD SHAPE FIGURE Antti Silventoinen, that we resumed our course." After Agma onslaught, it's back to a more reasonable length as Beyond The Abyss includes ten tracks, former AMON AMARTH and close comrade Anders Biazzi once again helping them out with the final sequencing.

Four songs were written by Håkan and three by Jonny and Thomas each. Three studios were used, mainly Jonny's own Studio Unbound (vocals, drums, mixing and mastering) but also Thomas' Bowstead studios and Stuvemark's Necrotic Audio Productions, with now four out five members living in Sweden.

"The sound and vibe on this album followed from Agma yet it turned out more evil and angrier, although I reckon this wasn't exactly planned.

Often when creating the output depends on where you are in life at the moment_ We all knew how good this album would be, but I don't think any of us actually understood that until we heard the final mix with everything on it.

It was a 'cowabunga moment'! Every time I listen to it; it puts a smile on my face and I have butterflies in my belly.

Death metal happiness!"