OPPROBRIUM's 'Mandatory Evac' Due In December

October 30, 2008

Metairie, Louisiana-based band OPPROBRIUM will release its new album, "Mandatory Evac", via Metal Mind Productions on November 11 in Europe and January 20, 2009 in the U.S. (via MVD). The CD, which has thus far only been available via the Internet, contains the following track listing:

01. Dark Science
02. Never Found
03. No One at My Funeral
04. Incident
05. Mandatory Evac
06. Fake
07. Sports of Danger
08. Daily Stress
09. In the Shadows
10. Compulsive Worrier
11. Ignorance
12. Sick of This

Check out the song "Fake" at this location.

According to a press release, "The new album shows OPPROBRIUM going to uncharted territories in their song writing, taking a lose approach to their music with no rules or boundaries, trying everything from melodies to hammer blast beats, with more complex song arrangements by drummer Moyses and frontman Francis, a much heavier album by the band, even surpassing their classic debut, 'Serpent Temptations'. . . The title track of their new album, 'Mandatory Evac', tells the experience the band lived during the devastating hurricane Katrina in August 2005, which destroyed their home state of Louisiana. Every song of the album deals with real life scenarios in which the human race struggles to live everyday. Different from their previous album, the band stayed away from the spiritual subjects which the band is well known for and decided to do something completely different on 'Mandatory Evac', touching on very emotional subjects such as orphans to the very torments in the mind that each of us human beings that hunt us daily."

This death/thrash monstrosity has been infecting the metal scene for more than 20 years now, at first using the name INCUBUS and then changing it to OPPROBRIUM in 1997. During its career, the band released four albums, each showcasing pure death metal destruction.

Metal Mind Productions will also re-release the band's earlier albums, "Beyond The Unknown" (1990) and "Serpent Temptation" (1998),both remastered and in a new digipak edition, each limited to 2,000 copies.

OPPROBRIUM's 2000 LP "Discerning Forces" was re-released by Metal Mind Productions in late June 2008.

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