Swedish d-beat band Disfear have announced The Last Nail, their first studio album since 2008. The record features the final performances of singer Tomas Lindberg and drummer Marcus Andersson, who both died of cancer after it was made.
The eight-track album will be released on November 20 through Relapse Records. The band have shared the first single, “Early Graves“.
The Last Nail is also dedicated to bassist Henrik Frykman, who died of cancer in 2011, not long after the release of the band’s previous album, Live The Storm.
Lindberg, best known as the singer of At The Gates, died on September 16, 2025, at the age of 52, after a battle with adenoid cystic carcinoma. He recorded his vocals for The Last Nail in the spring of 2023, before his diagnosis later that year. Andersson, who had played drums in Disfear since 1998, died on September 15 this year after a four-year fight with brain cancer.
In a statement, Disfear said:
“Struggle, pain, and loss. Since Live the Storm we have now lost 3 members of our band to cancer – Henrik, Tomas, and most recently Marcus. While we lost Henrik shortly after Live the Storm, Tomas and Marcus stayed active with us and were part of our new album, The Last Nail, which we’re announcing today. Written over the past 14 years and recorded during the past 3 years, we’ve been actively preparing The Last Nail over the course of the last year.”
“While our dear friends and bandmates Tomas, passed over a year ago and Marcus, only a few short weeks ago, they both wanted this record to come out as quickly as possible. Before Marcus passed, he saw a final copy of the album, and we wish to share the same joy it brought him, with you. Tomas and Marcus were extremely proud of their performances on this album, as we all are, and we invite you to hear their final performances on The Last Nail.”
“In April of 2024, during our last session together, we had a wonderful time. We didn’t think of the dark stuff. These were times of laughter. Robert Samsonowitz shot the last photos of The Last Nail line-up together at the studio. We will always cherish those times. The Last Nail will be released on November 20th via Relapse Records. Marcus, Tomas, and Henrik, this one is for you.”
The Last Nail will be the second album released in 2026 with vocals from Lindberg. In April, At The Gates released The Ghost Of A Future Dead through Century Media Records.
Disfear come from Nyköping, Sweden, and have been active since 1989. Lindberg joined in 1998 and first appeared on the band’s 2003 album Misanthropic Generation. The band’s current line-up also includes guitarists Björn Peterson and Uffe Cederlund, formerly of Entombed, and bassist Andreas Axelsson.
The Last Nail Tracklist:
- “A Circle Of Disease“
- “Early Graves“
- “Open To The Night Within“
- “Oblivion Bound“
- “The Revenant“
- “Shackled To Our Vice“
- “Cyanide“
- “The Last Nail In The Last Coffin On Earth“
