Australian melodic death metal force Destruction of the Healer continue the march towards their highly anticipated new full-length album, A Universe Bereaved (out July 9), with the release of their crushing second single Sekhmet.
Following the relentless technical ferocity of previous single Bestial Hunger, Sekhmet reveals another side of the band’s evolving sound. Drawing inspiration from the war-driven death metal of bands such as Bolt Thrower while incorporating the Egyptian tonalities and atmospheric dissonance associated with Nile, the track combines crushing death metal aggression with haunting melodic passages, creating one of the band’s most immersive and thematically ambitious compositions to date.
Named after the Egyptian goddess of both healing and destruction, Sekhmet serves as a thematic embodiment of Destruction of the Healer itself. Through apocalyptic imagery and visions of humanity’s extinction, the song explores destruction not merely as an ending, but as a necessary force of renewal. In the aftermath of collapse, nature reclaims the world, presenting annihilation as a brutal yet restorative act.
