Photo by Ross Sewage
“Shovelhead” is the latest single from gore metal goliaths EXHUMED. The track comes off the band’s blood-soaked new album, Red Asphalt, set for release on February 20th via Relapse Records.
Comments guitarist/vocalist Matt Harvey, “Feast your eyes and ears on ‘Shovelhead,’ the latest and sleaziest track to ooze out of our new record, Red Asphalt. Join us, the queasy riders in EXHUMED, on our latest wrong turn, straight through a dead end and directly into your brain.”
Watch the open-road mayhem unfold with an animated video created by Phil Hall (Municipal Waste, Iron Reagan, Morbikon) HERE. Stream the track HERE.
Watch EXHUMED’s previously released video for “Unsafe At Any Speed” HERE.
Preorder Red Asphalt on LP/CD/CS/streaming via Relapse.com HERE.
“We’re very stoked to be back in your ear-holes with Red Asphalt. Our recent albums have taken you with us through the graveyards and operating theaters of 19th century Scotland, the horror aisles of the video rental stores of our youths, and through the band’s history itself,” EXHUMED mastermind Matt Harvey says. “This time around, we’re inviting you to accompany us to a place that we spend a disproportionate amount of our lives, someplace familiar yet far more dangerous than it feels, a place that can take you to the hospital or the grave in more ways than you can imagine: the American roadway.”
Red Asphalt crashes the band’s hook-laden, high-speed deathgrind into whiplash-inducing grooves and dangerous musical curves. The record serves as a love letter to the road – horrific accidents, vehicular homicide, defective cars, gore-filled instructional videos, zombified biker gangs, and more. True to the band’s spirit, Red Asphalt drags the listener through a whirlwind of riffy madness. Tracks like the aptly titled “Unsafe At Any Speed,” “The Iron Graveyard,” and today’s horrifying single, “Shovelhead,” ooze with sleaze and groove while retaining all of the high-octane, full-throttle, white-knuckle madness you’ve come to demand from EXHUMED. Take the album for a spin and get your kicks on Route 666!
Red Asphalt Track Listing:
1. Unsafe At Any Speed
2. Red Asphalt
3. Shock Trauma
4. Shovelhead
5. The Iron Graveyard
6. Crawling From The Wreckage
7. Signal Thirty
8. Death On Four Wheels
9. Symphorophilia
10 The Fumes
10 The Fumes
EXHUMED will take Red Asphalt on the road throughout 2026 starting with a US headlining tour from February 19th through March 21st with Oxygen Destroyer and No/Más! Following a quick pit stop, EXHUMED returns to Europe/UK this Spring with labelmates Gruesome from April 4th through May 2nd. To round out the first half of 2026, EXHUMED will make their return down under to Australia and New Zealand for a week’s worth of headlining shows from May 27th through June 8th!
Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below.
EXHUMED Live w/ Oxygen Destroyer, No/Más:
2/19/2026 The Ritz – The Ritz San Jose, CA
2/20/2026 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA
2/21/2026 Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ
2/22/2026 Dive Bar – Las Vegas, NV
2/24/2026 O’ Death – San Antonio, TX
2/25/2026 The Lost Well – Austin, TX
2/26/2026 The End – Houston, TX
2/27/2026 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
2/28/2026 Merry Widow – Mobile, AL
3/01/2026 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
3/03/2026 Super Rad Arcade – Lynchburg, VA
3/04/2026 Chapel Of Bones – Raleigh, NC
3/05/2026 The Wormhole – Savannah, GA
3/06/2026 New Brookland Tavern – Columbia, SC
3/07/2026 Conduit – Orlando, FL
3/08/2026 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL
3/09/2026 The Handlebar – Pensacola, FL
3/11/2026 Double Wide – Dallas, TX
3/12/2026 89th St.- Oklahoma City, OK
3/13/2026 TBA – Lubbock, TX
3/14/2026 The Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
3/15/2026 The Rock – Tucson, AZ
3/18/2026 Humdinger Brewing – San Luis Obispo, CA
3/19/2026 Moroccan Lounge – Los Angeles, CA
3/20/2026 Café Colonial – Sacramento, CA
3/21/2026 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
w/ Gruesome:
4/04/2026 Lords Of The Land Festival – Glasgow, UK
4/05/2026 The Grove – Newcastle, UK
4/07/2026 Rebellion – Manchester, UK
4/08/2026 Exchange – Bristol, UK
4/09/2026 The1865 – Southampton, UK
4/10/2026 The Black Heart – London, UK
4/11/2026 Backstage By The Mill – Paris, FR
4/12/2026 DVG Club – Kortrijk, BE
4/13/2026 Little Devil – Tilburg, NL
4/14/2026 Pitcher – Düsseldorf, DE
4/15/2026 Logo – Hamburg, DE
4/17/2026 2Progi – Poznan, PL
4/18/2026 Barrak – Ostrava, CZ
4/19/2026 Escape – Vienna, AT
4/21/2026 Kornfehl – Solothurn, CH
4/22/2026 Backstage (Halle) – Munich, DE
4/23/2026 Cafe Central – Weinheim, DE
4/25/2026 Traffic Club – Rome, IT
4/26/2026 Slaughter Club – Milan, IT
4/28/2026 Rex – Toulouse, FR
4/29/2026 Groove Club – Portugalete, ES
4/30/2026 SWR Fest – Barroselas, PT
5/01/2026 SWR Fest – Barroselas, PT
5/02/2026 Revi Live – Madrid, ES
End Tour
5/27/2026 Whammy – Auckland, NZ
5/28/2026 Valhalla – Wellington, NZ
5/31/2026 Perth Dethfest 2026 @ The Rosemount – North Perth, AU
6/03/2026 Ed Castle – Adelaide, AU
6/04/2026 Crowbar – Brisbane, AU
6/05/2026 Singing Bird Studios – Frankston, AU
6/06/2026 Stay Gold – Melbourne, AU
6/07/2026 Sydney Deathfest 2026 @ Crowbar – Sydney, AU
6/08/2026 The Baso – Canberra, AU
EXHUMED:
Matt Harvey – guitar, vocals
Ross Sewage – bass, vocals
Mike Hamilton – drums
Sebastian Phillips – guitar
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