Hailing from the cold north of Denmark, CABAL unleash their dark force with Magno Interitus, the bands third studio album. Rooted in a wide array of musical influences ranging from black metal and hardcore, to death metal and modern deathcore, CABAL have cemented themselves as a band at the cutting edge of the extreme metal scene, ready to tear down all genre borders.
CABAL first emerged from the the shadows in 2016 as their first release Purge pushed the boundaries of the extreme metal scene in their homeland. Two years later, their debut album Mark of Rot ripped CABAL out of the Danish underground, establishing the band as an international act with a promising future. Soon after, the band began playing their first big festivals and toured through Europe, Japan and North America. But the cultists had bigger plans..
CABAL released their sophomore album Drag Me Down in 2020 - a dark descent into a personal hell brought to life by crushing instrumentals, an oppressive atmosphere and dark personal lyrics delivered with relentless intensity, while still leaving room for experimentation and expansion of CABAL’s signature sound. Drag Me Down took CABAL to new heights, as the shows got bigger and the attention of the music industry grew immensely.
With guest appearances on their previous albums from none other than Trivium’s Matt Heafy, Jamie Hails of Polaris, CJ McMahon from Thy Art is Murder and Filip Danielsson of Humanity’s Last Breath, CABAL no doubt have friends in every corner of the metal scene.
In the early winter of 2022, CABAL marked a new era with the release of Magno Interitus. Singer Andreas Bjulver Paarup says: “The main theme on the album is the great decay happening all around us. It seems that everything just falls apart in these days. This applies to politics, society in general as well as some personal things. We tried to translate the feelings that we have about the state of the world into music.”
CABAL are not only charting new territory with their visceral and doom-laden sound but are also moving out of the comforts of their dark, black and white signature aesthetic into bright colours inspired from Ari Asters latest masterpiece, ‘Midsommar’. Flowers, vines and eerie cultist May Queens are amongst the new visual elements that define the aesthetic of Magno Interitus.
Andreas, who is the art director and lyricist in the band, is excited about the new direction of the album: “We have a kind of base sound, our safe home. From there, we can experiment and try something new. On Magno Interitus we really left our comfort zone and went deeper into the details and extremes than ever before. You can hear it on the title track, as well as on the opener “If I Hang, Let Me Swing” or on “Exsanguination”. These are my personal three favourites on the album at the moment.”
Once more, CABAL brought in some extraordinary features on the album such as Joe ‘Bad’ Badolato of Fit For An Autopsy on Magno Interitus, as well as Simon Olsen from the Danish band BAEST on the track “Insidious”. This time around, CABAL also experimented with a completely different format by inviting the dark, industrial duo ‘John Cxnnor’ to co-create the unique track “Blod af Mit”.
The album was released in October 2022 through Nuclear Blast Records.
CABAL are now gearing up for the production of their fourth album, in which the cultists dive even deeper into their newfound, dark industrial sound that characterized elements of their previous album.
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Equipment
Below, you can find a list of some equipment we use in CABAL (just click the names!).
Note that some items are custom made, or not made anymore.
Drum equipment
Cymbals:
Meinl 14" Byzance Sand Hi-Hat
Meinl 18" Byzance Dual Crash
Meinl 18" Extreme Metal Big Bell Ride
Meinl 20" Byzance Dual Crash/Ride
Meinl 20" Byzance Vintage China (Equilibrium series)
Meinl 21" Byzance Transition Ride
Drums:
Tama LBR1465 Sound Lab Snare
Pearl Masters Maple Custom (similar kit in link).
Hardware:
Trick Drums Pro1-V Big Foot Double Pedal
Tama HT730B Ergo Rider (1st Chair series)
Tama HC82W Straight Cymbal Stand x2
Tama HC43BWN Cymbal Boom Stand x2
Tama HC84BW Cymbal Boom Stand
Tama HH915D Hi-Hat Speed Cobra
Tama HS80W Snare Stand
Miscellaneous:
Cosmic Ears CE6B molded in-ears
Thomann Drum Rug Oriental Anthracite
Hardcase Drum Case Set HStandard
Hardcase HN12CYM24, 24" Cymbal Case
Hardcase HN36W Hardware Case
Meinl MDLXSB Deluxe Stick Bag
Vic Firth X55A American Classic Hickory