SLAUGHTERDAY unleash a video single of the crushing title track from their forthcoming new album “Dread Emperor“. The sixth full-length of the East Frisian death metal veterans has been scheduled for release on February, Friday the 13th, 2026.

SLAUGHTERDAY comment:

“The title track, ‘Dread Emperor’, represents quintessential Slaughterday”, guitarist Jens Finger points out. “It takes you on an unrelenting journey through old school death metal, from slow, crushing doom to blistering aggression, which is crowned by soaring melodic solos.”

Bernd Reiners adds: 

“The song’s lyrics portray the ‘Dread Emperor’ as the ultimate embodiment of fear itself, a timeless force that rules through terror and despair”, the frontman writes. “With a world consumed by oppression, hopelessness, and submission, this track channels darkness and chaos to mirror the raw power of fear unleashed, making it both a sonic and thematic assault.”

Tracklist
1. Enthroned
2. Obliteration Crusade
3. Rapture of Rot
4. Astral Carnage
5. Subconscious Pandemonium
6. Dread Emperor
7. The Forsaken Ones
8. Necrocide
9. Dethroned
10. Golem (Protector cover)

SLAUGHTERDAY were formedin the East Frisian city of Leer in 2010 and this heavy powerhouse comes with a pedigree that amounts to death metal nobility in the northwestern corner of their native country. The original and still remaining core duo consists of string-shredder Jens Finger, who served as the guitarist of Oldenburgian death metal legends OBSCENITY from 1994 until 2010, and is also the growler of new label mates TEMPLE OF DREAD. The other half of the duo is personified by vocalist and drummer Bernd Reiners, who has also lent his voice to Aurich based death thrashers BK 49 among other acts.