The Cartographer release new single ‘Blood’
Derbyshire modern deathcore powerhouse, The Cartographer, have today dropped their absolutely ripping new single ‘Blood’, taken from their album ‘The Collapse Of A Bitter End’, due out in September.
When asked about the themes surround the latest single, the band stated that “this track is about someone who feels falsely accused or manipulated, snapping into anger and fantasising about taking power back and destroying the other person emotionally”.
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“This is the end of an era,” states The Cartographer’s vocalist and frontman Jay Roberts. That’s how he and the rest of the Derby based metal force view their debut album, ‘The Collapse of a Bitter End’. The quintet – composed of Roberts, guitarists Dan Gorman and Josh Pearson, bassist Tom Broadhead and drummer Josh Woodhouse – have endured both internal and external turmoil to reach this point.
The Cartographer has carved out a space that’s uniquely theirs in the UK heavy music underground. With ten years and multiple EP releases firmly under their belts, their expansion into the next level has always felt imminent but has been consistently stunted by the unexpected. Band members have come and gone, the pandemic brought the whole metal underground to a complete halt, they’ve individually had moments where life has had to take the wheel and priorities have changed, but now their momentum has shifted. Bloodstock Festival 2025 felt like the moment it all clicked into place. The band that took to that stage was confident, driven and intimidatingly fierce; exactly what this album demonstrates.
‘The Collapse of a Bitter End’ serves as a metaphorical bookend to a tumultuous period of their career. It’s a collection of material that the band formed amidst line-up changes and personal upheaval, each track representing a different fractured piece. Be it the personnel involved or the pain infused into the songwriting, there’s one thing that unifies them all; bittersweetness.
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