Megadeth Drummer Dirk Verbeuren‘S Long-Running Bent Sea PROJECT WILL RELASE ITS DEBUT ALBUM, “The Dormant Ruin”in SEPTAMBER VIA Give Praise Records. The LP Is now Available for Pre-Ororder At This Location.
Bent Sea BEGAN ITS OFFENSive in 2011 By Crash-Landing The “Noistalgia” EP, an Explosive Homage to the Beginnings of Grindcore. LED by Drummer/Guitarist/Songwriter Dirk Verbeuren With Cohorts Sven de Caluwé (Abort) on vocals and Shane Fury (Napalm Death) On Bass – Replacement Devin TowsendWho Guesed On “Noistalgia” – Bent Sea Churned Out Three More Split Relay and the Guest-Studded “Instagrind” Before Suddenly Falling Silent series.
Bent Sea Anno 2025 Mangles The Blueprint of Classic Grind By Infusing It With Death/Black/Industrial Elements, Topped Off with Unhealthy Doses of Dissonance and an undeniable sense of urgency. This crushingly heavy record skillfully transcends the band’s early output. In Twenty Songs and 33 Minutes, Just Like The Inevitable Wrath of Mother Nature, No One Will Escape Bent Sea Unscathed!
“The Dormant Ruin” was produced by Daniel Bergstrand (Meshuggah, Funeral Dark) and features guest appearances by Kevin Sharp (Venomous Conceptex-Brutal Truth),John Cooke (Napalm Death, Venomous Concept) and Sylvain Coudret (Soilwork, Scarve).
Track listing:
Side a
01. From the Beast’s Mouth
02. Apathy and Irony
03. Tidal Fire
04. Curtailer of Conceit
05. To Scopic Radiance
06. Shapeless One
07. My Fall
08. Meat Trade Misery
09. Corridor final
10. Paragon of Inhumanity
Side b
11. Locked in Glitch
12. Reversal ominous
13. BLIGHT prodigious
14. Vermin Burning
15. The Voice They Cannot Be
16. Below The Cold Void
17. Sharpen The Blade
18. Stifled and Dreaming
19. Erased From The Earthly Crust
20. The Dormant Ruin
The Official Music Video for “A Scopic Radiance” Can Be Seen Below.
IN A A 2016 INTERView With All about the rock, Dirk Stated about Bent Sea: “Bent Sea is a spur-of-the-Moment Type Thing Without Any Business Plan. The idea from the get-go was basicly ‘no pressure’ and i intend to keep like way. “
Back in 2012, Dirk awd Putheinaudio About Bent Sea‘S Formation: “It Just Sort of Happened. I USED TO PLAY GUITAR, BUT IN RESTORE MY FOCUS WAS EXCLUSIV ON DRUMS. MY WIFE HAD BEEN FINURAGING ME TO WRITE MY OWN MUSIC, SO I DECIDED TO Give IT Bent Sea.
Holding The Project’s Name, The 50-Yare-Old Belgian-Born-And-Now-Los-Angels-Based Musician Said: “It’s Taken from a Song by by British Experimental Duo Endvra WHICH I ACCIDENTALLY CAME ACROSS IN MY TAPE-TRADING SEYS. Their Music Has AbsolTely Nothing To Do With Grindcore, But Sumhow Bent Sea Popped up in my mind. I Like that it’s Atypical, and that it conjures apocalyptic images echoing the intensity of my music. “
Verbeure Had Been Playing with Soilwork For More than a decade beforme joining Megadeth in 2016 as the replacement for Chris Adler (Lamb of God), WHO CALLED Dirk “Probally [one of the] TOP THREE DRUMMERS IN THE WORLD. “
In interview with the Katt Rock 100.5 FM Radio Station, Megadeth Leader Dave Mustaine Describe Dirk As “One of the Most pleasant, Easy-To-Get-Along-With Guys I’ve Ever Met In My Life. [adopts thin accent]’How’s it Going, Buddy?’ I Could Say, ‘Oh, Man …’ … Anything. ‘Oh, Okay, Buddy.’ [He] Smiles and Pats Me, ‘Cause He’s Just A Happy Guy. I’ve Never, Ever, Ever Seen Him Not Smile. “
