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London’s crossover metal maniacs Inhuman Nature return with Greater Than Death, their long-awaited sophomore album, out April 25 via Church Road Records. Picking up where their 2019 self-titled debut left off—and building on the relentless energy of 2022’s Under the Boot EP and their 2023 split with Ninth Realm—the UK thrashers have sharpened their venomous attack into a deadlier form: faster, meaner, and more unrelenting than ever.
Today, Decibel is proud to premiere the entire album in full, before its official release. Across ten blistering tracks, Inhuman Nature rip through crossover thrash, hardcore grit, and death metal extremity with pit-igniting precision. From breakneck riffs and stomping grooves to snarled vocals and anthemic choruses, Greater Than Death delivers a sonic beating that fans of Power Trip, High Command, Testament and classic Slayer will be all too eager to receive.
Frontman Chris Barling puts it simply: “This album is straight-up anthemic violence—fast, relentless, and built for the pit. We wanted something that captured the essence of what we do live: speed, aggression, and a chorus you can scream with your fist in the air. Greater Than Death is our most feral, punishing record yet.”
Recorded at The Stationhouse, Leeds with James Atkinson behind the board and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, Greater Than Death captures the band’s live fury with a mix that’s crisp, raw, and crushing. If you’ve seen them tear it up alongside Crowbar, High Command, Heriot, or Grove Street, you already know what’s coming: no-frills, all-thrills crossover carnage.
Greater Than Death drops April 25 on vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital formats. Catch the band on tour across the UK this May—bring earplugs and a neck brace. But first, dig into the exclusive full album stream and read on for the band’s own track-by-track breakdown.
Track-by-Track
1. From The Shadows
The Shadow Lord has risen from the murky depths with a prophecy of doom for all who dared to ignore the warning signs. Old mistakes will all be erased! It’s time for the Dawn of Inhuman Man!
2. Dawn Of Inhuman Man
As is our way, we start this album off with a somewhat prophetic bit of science fiction about how the leaders of the Earth have pushed the people and the planet to its very limits, resulting in the emergence of a more feral and vastly more vicious being to wipe the slate clean.
3. Possessed To Die
Writing a song about the evils of social media has never been on my agenda, and it still isn’t really. There’s nothing worse than ageing thrashers whining about how people like taking selfies. The complete and obvious weaponisation of social media is a little bit more of a concern over some influencer’s opinion on…well anything. We’ve seen elections meddled with, misinformation spread like wildfire, the most gross and repugnant people held up as idols and respected more than the people we put in charge. Feels like we’re possessed…to die.
4. Servants Of Annihilation
Being in a band, especially one that goes on tour often can be painful and riddled with absurdity. Yet here we are still wanting to do it whenever possible. I always wanted to write an over the top ‘band on the road song’ and it just felt like the right time for it. Sure, we aren’t hitting Motörhead or Saxon levels of road hoggery…yet! But we do what we can.
Daragh jokingly came up with the ‘20 hour drives, I’m more dead than alive’ line after his first tour with us where we drove back and forth across Germany twice and did a 30 hour stretch home from Stockholm. But it perfectly sums up what touring can be like. You’re either built for it or you’re not.
5. Fortress Of Delusion
Living in the UK over the last 10 years has felt like a bizarre fever dream. We’ve had four Tory nitwits, all bizarre in their own ways, in power for most of it and now it’s hard to even tell what we have now. The Labour government kinda feels like the Ripley hybrids in Alien Resurrection. It looked promising at first, but something went staggeringly awry, and you are left with something so hideously deformed you just want to put it out of its misery.
6. Lines In The Sand II
I remember being 13 years old watching Black Sabbath at Ozzfest 2001, turning to my right and seeing the shiny bald head and dazzlingly weird chin piercings of David Draiman standing next to me and thinking how fucking cool that was (forgive me, I was a 13 year old nu-metal kid and down with the sickness). Now that guy happily autographs bombs that would later be dropped on children.
Inhuman Nature isn’t an outwardly political band, and probably never will be. I mean, we already have Discharge and 1000 other bands doing that for us, and we thank them for their service. But…when clear and obvious crimes against humanity are openly being committed, and applauded by privileged idiots, it’s inhuman on a nuclear scale. If you listen to this and it makes you consider for even a second some of the choices you make and how you live your life, great. If you just like it because there are three mosh parts, then that’s cool too.
7. Greater Than Death
The riffs you hear here were written and demoed by our guitarist Ben over three years ago, but I’ve had the title in my head for longer. Over the years the title has taken on many meanings for me: going through deaths in the family, the thought of potentially never being able to play a show again, mental illness, being in a job that was killing me, and was a life purely of work worth it?
If you asked me directly what the title means, I’d probably have five or six different answers for you and that’s probably why this was the last song for me to complete before we recorded. On the one hand, it’s about acknowledging that no matter what we do, Death’s a-comin’ and there’s nowt you can do about it, and on the other hand, it’s pushing through some shit where it feels like Death is looming. Or, it’s about the movie Phantasm, you can take your pick!
8. Mad Man’s Cage
Named after a torture device that we came across on a tour of the underground Labyrinth in Brno, CZ that ourselves and High Command went on back in 2023. You always have to be on the lookout for a good song title, so that went straight onto my long list of potentials. So, the song had a title long before I attached any meaning to it.
My most played song of last year was George Jones – These Days I Barely Get By, which I think totally tracks when I listen to back to MMC. I had a little help from Skeletons of Society as well, I’d been listening to Seasons in the Abyss a lot. An unusual combo of influences but here we are. I’d say it’s one of the more direct songs I’ve written in some time, and happy to say it’s very much past tense now.
9. The Maze Of Eternity
Cast your mind back to your youth. Pizza Hut’s on its way, one of the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels is lined up in the VCR. Let this song guide you through that memory.
10. Dead And Buried
Being the only vegan member of a band populated by people with the dietary habits of starved racoons, I didn’t feel like it was appropriate to write an Earth Crisis level animal rights song. But listening to Death Camps by Cro-Mags repeatedly in the lead up to recording this album gave me the sort of ‘fuck it’ energy I needed.
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