Having recently announced that they had signed up with Epitaph to deliver their first LP since 2006, reunited Aussie metalcore crew I Killed the Prom Queen have now delivered the deets on the record in full. Titled Beloved, it drops February 18 in North America and on February 14 in their native land.
As previously reported, the album was was tracked with producer Fredrik Nordström (Bring Me the Horizon, At the Gates, In Flames) in Gothenburg, Sweden. A press release explains that the band had underwent a few lineup changes when they got back together in 2011, though. Original guitarist/keyboardist Jona Weinhofen is joined on the LP by new vocalist Jamie Hope (ex-Red Shore), drummer Shane OBrien, guitarist Kevin Cameron and bassist Benjamin Coyte.
The make-up may be a bit different than when I Killed the Prom Queen issued their last LP, 2006s Music for the Recently Deceased, and Weinhofen explained that the band pushed their boundaries on the record, but added that the group havent made too many radical changes to their template.
"Weve really extended ourselves," Weinhofen said in a statement. "But weve done it in a way where its tasteful and it makes sense with the music. Its not like weve gone from sounding like a metalcore band to sounding like Dimmu Borgir. It still sounds very much like Prom Queen."
To tease the set, I Killed the Prom Queen have unveiled "To the Wolves," which jumps from oddly ambient mosh textures to speedier, Scandinavian thrash-inspired passages, all of which screamed full tilt by Hope. You can sample the song down below, where youll also find the newly revealed tracklist. Of course, thats the album art up above.