Photo by Mike Kelly
Chaos Exordium, the new full-length from New Jersey death metal practitioners NIGHTS OF MALICE, is out today on Bleeding Art Collective and Blood Blast Distribution (Nuclear Blast Records/Believe). To celebrate the release, the band presents a video for “Riches To The Conjurer,” featuring guest vocals by Entheos’ Chaney Crabb, now playing at Slam Worldwide.
Comments vocalist Brendan McGrath, “‘Riches to the Conjurer’ had us really tapping into our proggy side. We experimented with different time signatures and tempo changes and ended up with a unique flow that pulls you in a lot of different directions. The whole middle section has this really tight, groovy riff that goes into a heavy, chugging chord progression.
“When we heard it back for the first time, we knew we wanted to have Chaney Crabb from Entheos do guest vocals there. Entheos has become one of our favorite bands in recent years, and we have wanted to do a song with Chaney for a while. It made perfect sense that it would come to fruition on this song, with such a fitting part for her style.
“Lyrically, this is another one about a horror movie. It’s based on the lore of the cult of Paimon from the movie Hereditary.”
Watch NIGHTS OF MALICE’s “Riches To The Conjurer” video at Slam Worldwide HERE.
Watch the band’s previously release video for “Ex-Mortis” HERE and “Gore Nest” HERE.
Chaos Exordium features album artwork created by Andriy Tkalenko and additional guest vocals by Bobby Yagodich of Verminoth on “Stitched.”
The record is available now on CD, vinyl and digital formats. Find physical orders HERE and digital orders HERE.
In conjunction with the release of Chaos Exordium, NIGHTS OF MALICE will kick off their tour with My Own Will. The Chaos & Misery Tour begins tonight June 4th in Clifton, New Jersey and runs through June 20th Chesapeake, Virginia. See all confirmed dates below.
NIGHTS OF MALICE Chaos & Misery Tour w/ My Own Will:
6/04/2026 Dingbatz – Clifton, NJ
6/05/2026 Capital City Music Hall – Harrisburg, PA
6/06/2026 Lurking Class Skate Shop – Salisbury, MD
6/09/2026 Growlers – Memphis, TN
6/10/2026 Cobra – Nashville, TN
6/11/2026 The Brickyard – Marietta, GA
6/12/2026 The Reverb Room – Warner Robins, GA
6/13/2026 My Sisters House – Orlando, FL
6/14/2026 Oscura – Bradenton, FL
6/16/2026 Propaganda – Lake Worth, FL
6/17/2026 Hard Love – Jacksonville, FL
6/18/2026 Handlebar – Pensacola, FL
6/19/2026 Ground Zero – Spartanburg, SC
6/20/2026 Riffhouse Pub – Chesapeake, VA
With a sound that is synonymous with razor sharp technical death metal riffing, monolithic groove, and rapid-fire vocal phrasing, as is signature with acts such as Psycroptic, Whitechapel, Aborted, and Archspire, NIGHTS OF MALICE is a triumphant example of the quality of acts that have emerged from the Garden State scene.
Since the band’s inception, the band has worked with the outstanding team of Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland at Atrium Audio, who have produced albums from bands such as Black Crown Initiate, August Burns Red, Rivers Of Nihil, The Ghost Inside, and many more. NIGHTS OF MALICE has once again teamed up with Atrium Audio for Chaos Exordium.
“The whole album started to really come together once we wrote [lead single] ‘Ex-Mortis,” reflects McGrath on the creation of Chaos Exordium. “We felt like that was the song that fully encompassed the current era of our sound and from there, it was easier to pick and choose which of our ideas were going to be on the album, to sort of map out the pacing of it. Our goal was to make the heaviest, most intense NIGHTS OF MALICE album ever. We’ve experimented with our sound in a lot of different ways, but one thing we all agree on is that we are at our best when we’re riffing all over the place. Our writing process always starts with guitar, so it comes naturally to us most of the time.
“For the production,” he continues, “we knew we were going to go back to Atrium. We love working with Grant and Carson; we’ve been working with them for ten years now. They have always been an integral part of bringing our vision to life and they’ve given us our best sounding mix yet. It’s a very guitar-heavy mix since the riffs are the driving force behind this record.”
Chaos Exordium Track Listing:
1. Reject The Host
2. Ex-Mortis
3. A Message In Blood
4. Stitched [Feat. Bobby Yagodich of Verminoth]
5. Riches To The Conjurer [Feat. Chaney Crabb of Entheos]
6. The Hand Of Death
7. Gore Nest
8. To Live Undead
9. The Inhuman Experience
NIGHTS OF MALICE:
Joe Capasso – drums
Xavier Quiles – guitars
Brendan McGrath – vocals
Josh Kuhn – guitars
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