It is the first song in the album where you can hear our musical evolution. Follow the Scars: Musically, this song has a clean vocal chorus. You see this person but until you leave the other relationship, this person is a ghost…of flesh and blood.Ĥ. It is about being with someone that is not good for you while at the same time being around another person that would be right for you. Lyrically, this song is about personal relationships. Melodic and heavy riffs mixed together to make a song. A Ghost of Flesh and Blood: Another old-school death metal song, which represents our style of writing very well. We wanted the single to show we are still Decerebration!!ģ. Musically, there is a lot of old-school death metal influence. Infamous Duality is about having to choose between a comfortable but unhappy life and leaving that comfort to live the life you are meant to live. Infamous Duality: The first single off the album. The melody in the intro is also a riff in the first song, this is intentional. It is also about not being able to let go of the past and what’s dragging you down, the sound of the chains is an example of that. It is about someone entering their own mind. We also wanted more structured songs and not a dozen different riffs glued together the make a song, as we did before.ġ. For example, the clean vocal chorus in Follow the Scars. We wanted to showcase how a death metal musician can evolve over the years after being exposed to many different genres of music and showcase that in some of our songs. Musically we wanted to keep our old school death metal roots and have slammy and melodic parts to the songs. We felt it was important to do so instead of going the typical death metal lyric route. We wanted to use our personal life experiences to write the lyrics of the songs. The album as a whole explained by the band:įollow the Scars is a very personal album lyrically. Produced by: Decerebration and François C.All songs written by: Julien Souque / Nicolas Cantin / Olivier Doyon.Mark “Follow the Scars” with a high-quality mark! Morbid death metal exhumed from old graves! Well, done!” – Deadly Storm Zine I’m so glad that the Canadian beast has come to life again. I really enjoy the album it brings out the dark side in me. I confess that, even if I crawl into some dark corner, this is my first encounter with the band. On its side, like the coffin mentioned in the introduction, it bears the inscription DECEREBRATION. It’s like an old rusty bulldozer that has stood aside for years, only to be revived, greased with tainted blood and called back into service. “Follow the Scars” rolls forward and whatever gets in its way, it buries uncompromisingly alive, dismembers and destroys. “neuf titres de death metal rustiques et mal dégrossis, pas forcément très brutaux mais épais comme un bon gruau.” – Soil Chronicles “Decerebration fut pour moi une TRÈS belle découverte. “solid riffs in here, and the thick bass really lifts this album up a lot.” – Metal Epidemic “‘Follow the Scars’ feels like a record designed to destroy live shows, obliterate necks and pits, and it does that with fucking triumph.” – The Killchain Blog “If you aren’t familiar with Decerebration but enjoy the likes of Suffocation or Cannibal Corpse, you should find this an interesting and rewarding listen, and you can’t fail to be inspired by the positivity out of adversity message behind the release either.” – Metal Talk We wanted the lyrics to reflect that.” – Decerebrationįor fans of Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, Testament, Death, Sepulturaį/Decerebration | /decerebrationband.official | YouTubeĭ | Spotify | Apple Music Just like the music the lyrics are a product of how we have matured and evolved as human beings and musicians. Not because we want to deny our past but because we wanted to talk about the issues we faced in our lives. The lyrics are not the typical death metal lyrics we used to write. “Follow the Scars” is also a look into our personal lives over the past twenty years lyrically. We think old fans and new fans will find something for them in our new songs and we can’t wait for them to hear the album. We really like the music we were able to write for the new album. We wanted to stay true to our old school death metal roots while adding new elements to our music such as clean vocals. More than 20 years have passed since our last release of new music, and we wanted to show how we have evolved as persons and musicians. We were kids that didn’t know what they were doing besides writing what we thought were good death metal songs with typical death metal lyrics.