MEGADETH drummer Dirk Verbeuren‘s long-running BENT SEA venture will launch its debut album, “The Dormant Damage”, in September by way of Give Reward Data. The LP is now obtainable for pre-order at this location.
The official music video for the most recent BENT SEA single, “My Fall”, that includes a visitor look by Kevin Sharp (VENOMOUS CONCEPT, ex-BRUTAL TRUTH),might be seen beneath.
Dirk siad: “This can be a very significant track to me. It was written about my late mother.”
BENT SEA started its offensive in 2011 by crash-landing the “Noistalgia” EP, an explosive homage to the beginnings of grindcore. Led by drummer/guitarist/songwriter Verbeuren with cohorts Sven de Caluwé (ABORTED) on vocals and Shane Embury (NAPALM DEATH) on bass — changing Devin Townsend, who guested on “Noistalgia” — BENT SEA churned out three extra cut up releases and the guest-studded “Instagrind” collection earlier than abruptly falling silent.
BENT SEA anno 2025 mangles the blueprint of traditional grind by infusing it with dying/black/industrial components, topped off with unhealthy doses of dissonance and an simple sense of urgency. This crushingly heavy file skillfully transcends the band’s early output. In twenty songs and 33 minutes, similar to the inevitable wrath of Mom Nature, nobody will escape BENT SEA unscathed!
“The Dormant Damage” was produced by Daniel Bergstrand (MESHUGGAH, DARK FUNERAL) and options visitor appearances by Sharp, John Cooke (NAPALM DEATH, VENOMOUS CONCEPT) and Sylvain Coudret (SOILWORK, SCARVE).
Monitor itemizing:
Aspect A
01. From The Beast’s Mouth
02. Apathy And Irony
03. Tidal Fireplace
04. Curtailer Of Conceit
05. A Scopic Radiance
06. Shapeless Ones
07. My Fall
08. Meat Commerce Distress
09. Ultimate Hall
10. Paragon Of Inhumanity
Aspect B
11. Locked In Glitch
12. Ominous Reversal
13. Prodigious Blight
14. Vermin Burning
15. The Voice They Can’t Be
16. Under The Chilly Void
17. Sharpen The Blade
18. Stifled And Dreaming
19. Erased From The Earthly Crust
20. The Dormant Damage
The official music video for “A Scopic Radiance” can be seen beneath.
In a 2016 interview with All About The Rock, Dirk said about BENT SEA: “BENT SEA is a spur-of-the-moment kind factor with none marketing strategy. The concept from the get-go was principally ‘no strain’ and I intend to maintain it that means.”
Again in 2012, Dirk instructed PureGrainAudio about BENT SEA‘s formation: “It simply form of occurred. I used to play guitar, however lately my focus was completely on drums. My spouse had been encouraging me to put in writing my very own music, so I made a decision to provide it a shot. The end result turned out to be BENT SEA.”
Relating to the venture’s title, the 50-year-old Belgian-born-and-now-Los-Angeles-based musician mentioned: “It is taken from a track by British experimental duo ENDVRA which I by chance got here throughout in my tape-trading days. Their music has completely nothing to do with grindcore, however one way or the other BENT SEA popped up in my thoughts. I like that it is atypical, and that it conjures apocalyptic pictures echoing the depth of my music.”
Verbeuren had been taking part in with SOILWORK for greater than a decade earlier than becoming a member of MEGADETH in 2016 because the substitute for Chris Adler (LAMB OF GOD),who referred to as Dirk “most likely [one of the] prime three drummers on the planet.”
In interview with the KATT Rock 100.5 FM radio station, MEGADETH chief Dave Mustaine described Dirk as “one of the crucial nice, easy-to-get-along-with guys I’ve ever met in my life. I am going to stroll as much as him and he’ll smile and lean ahead and pat me on the again. He goes [adopts thin accent], ‘How’s it going, buddy?’ I might say, ‘Oh, man…’… something. ‘Oh, okay, buddy.’ [He] smiles and pats me, ‘trigger he is only a glad man. I’ve by no means, ever, ever seen him not smile.”
