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Gore metal titans Exhumed<\/a><\/strong> are set to return in full throttle mode with their new studio album, Red Asphalt<\/em>, arriving February 20 via Relapse Records. Alongside the announcement, the band has released a savage new video for the album’s lead single, “Unsafe At Any Speed,” giving fans their first taste of what promises to be one of 2026’s most ferocious extreme metal releases.<\/p>\n Described as a high-speed collision of deathgrind brutality and groove-heavy savagery, Red Asphalt<\/em> finds Exhumed<\/strong> shifting thematic gears. After recent albums explored graveyards, operating theaters, horror culture, and the band’s own legacy, this time the focus turns to a far more familiar \u2014 and deadly \u2014 setting: the American roadway.<\/p>\n “We’re very stoked to be back in your earholes with Red Asphalt<\/em>,” said Exhumed<\/strong> mastermind Matt Harvey<\/strong>. “This time around, we’re inviting you to accompany us to a place that we spend a disproportionate amount of our lives\u2026 a place that can take you to the hospital or the grave in more ways than you can imagine: the American roadway.”<\/p>\n Red Asphalt<\/em> serves as a twisted love letter to life on the road, packed with themes of horrific accidents, vehicular homicide, defective cars, gore-soaked safety films, zombified biker gangs, and mechanical death.<\/p>\n Musically, the album smashes Exhumed<\/strong>‘s trademark riff-fueled deathgrind into whiplash-inducing grooves and perilous turns, delivering relentless intensity without sacrificing hooks. Pre-orders for Red Asphalt<\/em> are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n