Ram have released Abattoir, another single from Against, the Swedish band's first album since The Throne Within in 2019. Metal Blade Records puts it out on 9 October.
The launch show in Gothenburg carries a second announcement inside it. It will be the last performance by bassist Tobias Petterson, who leaves after the record he played on has been in shops for a matter of days.
Oscar Carlquist puts the new song at the speed metal end of what the band do, which for Ram is saying something: they have spent twenty seven years working a narrow seam of traditional heavy metal and the variation has always been in how fast they take it.
Seven years between albums is long enough that a comeback usually needs a reason. Here the reason and the farewell arrive on the same night.