Incoming! — Bodysnatcher Announce New Album Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home
- Lee (Review Zoo)
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The Florida deathcore wrecking crew return with their fourth full-length, pushing their trademark brutality and emotional catharsis even further into the abyss.
Melbourne, Florida deathcore outfit Bodysnatcher are back with a new slab of sonic devastation. Their fourth album, Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home, arrives as the follow-up to the band’s 2024 EP Vile Conduct and promises ten tracks of uncompromising heaviness from one of modern deathcore’s most relentless bands.
For anyone who’s followed Bodysnatcher’s trajectory—from 2017’s Death of Me through The Heavy Void (2020) and 2022’s Bleed-Abide—the band’s emotional DNA will feel familiar. This is a group that has never shied away from confronting grief, betrayal and personal trauma head-on. But Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home pushes those themes even deeper into the raw nerve endings.
Frontman Kyle Medina says the band’s lyrical core has always been about survival in the aftermath of hardship.
“The band has always had roots lyrically in themes of betrayal, overcoming hardship, and moving on from things that happen in life and how to cope with them,” he explains. “As the band has matured and we as people have grown, so have the ways to dig into those themes.”
That sense of evolution runs throughout the record. While the album still draws from intensely personal experiences, it also widens its lens to reflect a broader sense of modern disillusionment. Drummer Chris Whited notes that the current state of the world seeped heavily into the songwriting process.
“There’s a strong sense of retaliation this time around,” he says. “It feels like choosing violence—fighting back against a world that feels morally lost right now.”
You can hear that fury immediately on opening track “The Maker.” Built on pulverising riffs and an atmosphere of pure hostility, it sets the tone for what follows: a record that doubles down on Bodysnatcher’s reputation for unrelenting heaviness. Bassist Kyle Shope describes the track as a more direct expression of the band’s familiar themes of vengeance and confrontation.
From there the album keeps the pressure high. Tracks like “Writhe And Coil” and “Violent Obsession” lean into savage, metallic aggression, while “Blade Between The Teeth” and “Survive Or Die” channel a more defiant strain of hardcore-infused deathcore.
One standout moment comes on Survive Or Die, which features guest vocals from Scott Vogel of hardcore legends Terror. For a band whose sound has long carried the DNA of hardcore alongside its deathcore brutality, the collaboration feels like a full-circle moment.
“Scott Vogel is such a pivotal and legendary voice in hardcore,” says Medina. “Many of us grew up listening to Terror, so having him appear on a song is huge for us.”
Yet the most emotionally charged track may be “May Your Memory Rot.” Written during the first night of studio sessions, it channels deeply personal grief and anger from Whited’s own experiences with family loss. The song’s ferocity is rooted in genuine pain—but like much of the album, it’s anger aimed at survival rather than self-destruction.
Despite the bleak subject matter, the band insist there’s purpose behind the chaos. Guitarist Kyle Carter describes the album as a hard-fought creative process that eventually yielded some of the strongest material the band has ever written.
The result is an album steeped in revenge, resistance and emotional release—ten tracks of deathcore that feel less like escapism and more like confrontation.
With Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home on the horizon, Bodysnatcher aren’t just doubling down on heaviness—they’re sharpening it into something deeply personal and violently cathartic.
And judging by the band’s growing reputation across the heavy music underground, plenty of listeners are ready to scream along.
Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home, the new album from Bodysnatcher, lands on 10 April.
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