Swedish underground extremists HAERDSMAELTA return with Enjoy The Feast, their first new single since signing with Icons Creating Evil Art and the opening chapter of their upcoming album HAERDROCK, set for release later this fall.

For more than a decade, HAERDSMAELTA have occupied a space entirely their own within Sweden's heavier underground. Blending hardcore violence, industrial noise, punk filth and pitch-black humor, the band have built a cult following through sheer unpredictability and an unwavering commitment to creative chaos.

Enjoy The Feast wastes no time announcing the next phase. The band comments:
- "Enjoy the Feast springs from an idea that individual rationality is powerless against collective decadence. Neither good argumentation nor civil disobedience can overcome how the superiors exploit human naivety and vague hopes of a world for everyone. Those in power throw a great feast to divert attention from their cynical plundering. And people love it because it is so easy to buy the bluff and wallow in the temporary luxury, while the burning fires of our bad conscience eats away the foundation on which all this shit rests. It is about the hypocrisy, on all levels. And despite that we bring in the criers and call the priests, because our throats have gone dry and it is time to enjoy the feast! "  

Driven by pummeling riffs, mechanical rhythms and a sense of impending collapse, the track sounds like a public execution broadcast from the end of the world. Across a landscape populated by liars, priests, war drones and burning pyres, HAERDSMAELTA deliver a grotesque invitation to witness – and perhaps participate in – the spectacle of modern society consuming itself.

Part political satire, part dystopian fever dream, Enjoy The Feast captures the band's unique ability to balance genuine rage with absurdist humor. The result is a song that feels both frighteningly contemporary and strangely entertaining.

Since emerging from the Swedish underground in 2015, HAERDSMAELTA have steadily expanded their beautifully damaged universe through releases such as Atom Heart Mother Fuckers, The Whiter Album, Gone In Gray, All Alone In The Danger Zone and Ground Zero One Eight. Along the way they have earned a reputation as one of Sweden's most uncompromising underground acts, receiving recognition at the Manifest Gala and building a devoted cult audience drawn to their combination of musical extremity and conceptual ambition.

Enjoy The Feast also marks the beginning of a new creative era in collaboration with Icons Creating Evil Art. Together, the band and label have spent the past months developing new visual concepts, artwork, photography and video content designed to expand the HAERDSMAELTA universe even further.

“Some bands immediately feel like they belong in the ICEA universe, and HAERDSMAELTA absolutely did,” says Carl-Marcus Gidlöf, founder of Icons Creating Evil Art. “They have this rare combination of total chaos and artistic precision — musically, visually and conceptually. Their world fits perfectly together with the creative madness we love to build around our artists.”

With HAERDROCK arriving later this year, Enjoy The Feast serves as both a warning and an invitation.

The fire is already burning.

All that's left is to enjoy the feast.