It's a great day to be a Left to Suffer fan! Today, the nu-deathcore quintet have announced their forthcoming new album, 'Leap of Death' out on Friday, August 16. In celebration of the news, the band shared a new track "FOREVER" featuring Alejandro Aranda and the official visualizer, along with a new side-scroller game dovetailing with the 'Leap of Death' album artwork. Speaking on today's news, the band commented:
“Left to Suffer has taken many sonic gambles when it comes to creating music that describes us as a band. Trial and error, riff after riff, has only led us to molding a sound that is completely ours. Forever, is the culmination of years of risk-taking. Mixed with Alejandro Aranda’s supreme talent, this song is a whirlwind of twists and turns and emotions, lined with simplicity but also tasteful in its journey across genres. This is the most risk we have taken, yet this is the most honest version of Left to Suffer you’ve ever received.”
Prior to today, the band released their banger "LOST IN THE DARK" featuring Marc Zelli of Paleface Swiss which has already clocked up a staggering 1.5 million streams on Spotify alone with 169k views and counting on YouTube. 'Leap of Death'pre-saves will be available starting this Friday, April 19 at the link here, and be sure to play the 'Leap of Death' game and watch the visualizer for "FOREVER" ft. Alejandro Aranda below.
Left to Suffer are set to tear up North America with their incredible live show beginning next week with Waste as support, followed up with dates with Downswing and a special show in Brooklyn, NY supporting Slaughter To Prevail in May. Afterwards, the band will then be heading out with HANABIE. and Outline In Color. For ticket information, please click here.
Upcoming Left to Suffer Tour Dates:
April 25 - Des Moines, IA @ xBK*
April 26 - Wichita, KS @ TempleLive*
April 28 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks w/ Sullivan King#
April 30 - Omaha, NE @ Reverb*
May 1 - Iowa City, IA @ Wooly’s*
May 2 - Bloomington, IL @ Nightshop*
May 3 - Henderson, KY @ The Elm*
May 4 - Madison, AL @ Insanity Skatepark
May 14 - Richmond, VA @ The Camel**
May 15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount^
May 16 - Mechanicsburg, PA @ Lovedrafts**
May 17 - New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place^^
May 18 - Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD^^
May 19 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House^^
May 21 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater^^
May 23 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theater^^
May 25 - Saskatoon, SK @ Coors Event Center^^
May 26 - Edmonton, AB @ Midway Music Hall^^
May 27 - Calgary, AB @ The Palace^^
May 29 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile^^
May 30 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom^^
May 31 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades^^
June 3 - Lubbock, TX @ Jake’s
June 4 - Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street
*With Waste As Support
# With King Sullivan
^ With Slaughter To Prevail
** With Downswing As Support
^^ With HANABIE. and Outline In Color
Suffering is a constant component of the human condition. The same way that wherever there is sun, there is bound to be rain—wherever joy can be found, there is suffering to be found in equal amounts, if not more. In the same fashion that suffering is a mandatory part of existence, Atlanta-based nu-deathcore outfit Left to Suffer have made themselves a mandatory part of the contemporary heavy music scene. Boldly blending brutalizing deathcore laden with skin-rending blast beats and bombastic breakdowns with catchy, hook-filled and glitchy nu metal, these Georgian heavyweights formed their own niche within the the underground and filled it in record time, providing a nigh-endless stream of new music paired with an incessant touring schedule—there’s almost no way you haven’t suffered at their hands yet.
Formed in 2019, Left to Suffer instantly garnered world-wide attention with the release of their debut single, “Burden.” Before the impact from their initial, explosive track had faded, the group’s debut full length, A Year of Suffering was released just one year later in mid-2020. A Year of Suffering—even though it was released in the throes of a global pandemic that would halt touring and alter many other means of conventional promotion—was met with immense success, skyrocketing Left to Sufferinto relative stardom in the bustling underground of extreme music. Before long, the band’s follow-up EP, On Death, would release in April of the following year. Featuring guest vocal appearance from metal and deathcore titans Tom Barber (Chelsea Grin), Lochie Keogh (Alpha Wolf) and Ryo Kinoshita (formerly of Crystal Lake), On Death was Left to Suffer’s catalyst that would take them from well-known to notorious peddlers of all things groovy and heavy. Never to be caught slacking, later that year the band would release another stand-alone single, “D.N.R.,” featuring Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos and Ov Sulfur’s Ricky Hoover—two more Goliaths in the world of deathcore.
By the time 2022 rolled around and the world had essentially reopened after an international hiatus from touring, Left to Sufferhad already been across most of the continental United States. Touring with the likes of Bodysnatcher, Boundaries, Lorna Shore and The Last Ten Seconds of Life throughout the second half of 2021, the band’s 2022 would be dominated by their tour with SPITE and Carnifex on the Dead in My Arms fifteen year anniversary tour—as well as the release of their sophomore EP, And Dying Forever. The spiritual successor to On Death, And Dying Forever was produced by Emmure’s Joshua Travisand saw Left to Suffer continue to hone their unique ability to blend flashy, hectic elements of nu metal and groove metal into a ferocious deathcore backbone. Left to Suffer would continue an extensive touring regimen into 2023, punctuated by the release of their sophomore full length record, Feral and a brief follow-up EP, Noah. Feral saw the band dive into their heavier side with a flashy, experimental edge, featuring Fit for An Autopsy’s Joe Badolato and trap-metal superstar Kim Dracula—highlighting the band’s ability to blend industrial elements and trap-tinted undertones while still bringing a peerless and powerfully brutal performance to the table. Noah, on the other hand, was co-produced by Three Days Grace’s Neil Sanderson and Howard Benson, and saw the band incorporating elements of melancholic-yet-anthemic arena metal alongside a stuttering, pummeling progressive metalcore tint to their persistent backbone of bustling deathcore. Noah and Feral see Left to Suffer demonstrating that while they can tackle a variety of sounds and styles, they are always uniquely recognizable, refusing to compromise the core aspect of their immensely energetic sound.
The year is now 2024—and it’s already been a landmark one for Left to Suffer. Fresh off of two nation-wide tours supporting Veil of Maya’s [m]other tour and Gideon’s More Power. More Pain. Tour Part II—and a performance supporting King Sullivan at Colorado’s premiere music venue Red Rocks Amphitheater yet to come. Alongside these performances comes a third full length record, Leap of Death, a stunning collection of some of the band’s most aggressive—and experimental—songs to date. With songs like “Lost in the Dark,” featuring Paleface Swiss’ Marc Zelli showcasing the band’s ruthlessness at its most bleak and devastating juxtaposed against songs like “Forever,” with a catchy, poppy and borderline industrial intro and chorus, there’s no denying that there isn’t much out there like what Left to Suffer are currently crafting. Two colossal tours, one groundbreaking record and a performance at one of the country’s most legendary venues already planned and with over half of 2024 yet to go, it seems that, as with all of life’s constants, the Suffering is bound to continue. - Connor Welsh
Left to Suffer Is:
Taylor Barber - vocals
Jacob Gordon - guitar
Peter Higgs - guitar
Christian Nowatzki - bass
Alex Vavra - drums
