Rouen’s TRAGOS Blend Classical Elegance And Death Metal Brutality With New Album “Bellicum”, Out on March 13th via Fetzner Death Records!

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French death metal band TRAGOS has announced their comeback, two years after the EP “MMXXIV”. The new work is called “Bellicum” and it is slated for release on March 13th via Fetzner Death Records.

The album is anticipated by the song “Narcissus Vortex,” available as visualizer video on the label’s YouTube channel:

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Born in Rouen, TRAGOS embodies the collision between classical elegance and chaotic brutality. Founded in 2022 and solidified in its current lineup in February 2023, the band consists of Cédric (guitars, composer), Kevin (vocals, lyricist), François (bass), and Laurent (drums).

The band’s new album “Bellicum” faithful to its old-school death metal roots through its originality, blending primal rage with songwriting inspired by classical and baroque composers such as Matteo Carcassi, Fernando Sor, Scarlatti, and Bach.

Through distortion and melodic progression, each riff evokes a sophisticated musical approach where the art of counterpoint collides with the savagery of blast beats.

Across its twelve tracks, TRAGOS explores the many forms of human torment:

– tragic sacrifice (“Lethal Suspiro”)

– cosmic vanity (“Narcissus Vortex”)

– abyssal horror (“Chthonian Exult”)

– morbid carnality (“Sanguinolent”)

– and the madness of the ego (“Egofabulist”)

“Bellicum” is an inner battlefield where faith, reason, flesh, and nothingness collide. An album of rare intensity that restores death metal to its tragic and erudite dimension.

“Between the elegance of the classical and the brutality of chaos.”

TRAGOS is pleased to reveal the album cover by Thibault Delferiere, while the definitive tracklist can be read below:

1. Lethal Suspiro

2. Fragmento Fugit

3. Penumbra Prolix

4. Narcissus Vortex

5. Labor Delusiv

6. Scherzo Patibul

7. Chthonian Exult

8. Random Punishment

9. Ritual Deflor

10. Sanguinolent