I stopped paying attention to Psycroptic years ago. I didn’t even know they signed to Nuclear Blast, but apparently they have and they’re releasing a new CD soon.

Tasmanian tech-death masters PSYCROPTIC will release their fourth album, Ob(Servant), in Europe on September 26 via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2006’s Symbols of Failure was mixed and mastered by former MACHINE HEAD and SOULFLY guitarist Logan Mader (DIVINE HERESY, GOJIRA) and was recorded once again by guitarist Joe Haley. The album include a free bonus DVD featuring a studio diary as well as performance footage from a 2006 gig in Amsterdam, Netherlands and 2008 concert in Wellington, New Zealand. The free bonus DVD will run approximately 85 minutes.

Commented drummer Dave Haley: “Ob(Servant) is definitely our finest hour (well, finest 49 minutes and 49 seconds anyway). It’s, of course, a cliché of every band to say that their newest album is their best and so on, but we are very proud of what we have done on this album.

“The writing process was a little different for this album, with Joe writing pretty much all the material. This gives the album a very coheisive and flowing feel, and this album is definitely our most diverse material thus far. The artwork is also amazing, having been completed by Raymand Swanland (DEEDS OF FLESH). Those not familiar with his work should check it out — you will be amazed!”

He continued: “[The new CD is] a mixture of everything we have done, as well as adding in new elements to continue the progression we are on as a band. No point releasing the same album twice, right? Like Symbols of Failure, Joe engineered the album, but this time we enlisted the help of metal guru Logan Mader to mix and master the album…and that was probably the best decision we have ever made. The album sounds huge! Since we are currently on the amazing Summer Slaughter tour in the U.S. at the moment, we had been receiving mixes while on the road. After our L.A. show, Logan took myself and Joe to his Dirty Icon studio and put the finishing touches on the mix. Huge is one word for the sound he achieved.”

I lied. I never paid attention to Psycroptic and now that I see Logan Mader is involved with their new album, I have no plans to start.