This week, Swiss metal band Zeal & Ardor share the visualizer for the new single “Clawing Out” off of their upcoming fourth album GREIF.  After the release of their previous single “to my ilk”, the band continues to set the stage for their new album with a snarling viscous tune.

“Clawing Out” is a percussive heavy song with numerous uses of staccato, dead notes, ritualistic tribal beats and sludge-tinged riffs. Sung with the vocals of many black metal singers, the delivery of” Clawing Out” has many instances of strident vowels accentuated in the verses. Quite literally the singer has his larynx clawed out in the verse only for the vocals to return to normal tone in the chorus and bridge.

In a press release, frontman Manuel Gagneux elaborates more on the song, “We like to surprise people. So of course, after releasing our softest song to date with ‘to my ilk’, we want to create something whiplash with ‘Clawing Out!’ Not satisfied with a mere heavy filled song, we elected to borrow some elements from other musical styles to further the impact.” Watch the visualizer for Zeal & Ardor’s new single “Clawing Out” below.