Red Asphalt Full-Length To Drop February 20th On Relapse Records

Photo by Ross Sewage

“The Iron Graveyard” is the latest slab of sonic obliteration from gore metal masters EXHUMED. The track comes off the band’s impending Red Asphalt full-length, set for release on February 20th via Relapse Records. 

Offers EXHUMED’s Ross Sewage on “The Iron Graveyard,” “The hits keep coming, and coming, and coming, and smashing your car into a twisted chrome and steel tomb in our latest single, ‘The Iron Graveyard.’ Put the pedal to the metal and jam this during the commute to your daily grind while dodging the road-raging maniacs all around you on the highway. After listening, we think you’ll agree that the local street cleaner is grossly underpaid for all the gore and carnage they have to clear from the benighted streets of America.”

Watch EXHUMED’s “The Iron Graveyard” video HERE.

Preorder Red Asphalt on LP/CD/CS/streaming via Relapse.com HERE.

“We’re very stoked to be back in your ear-holes with Red Asphalt. Our recent albums have taken you with us through the graveyards and operating theaters of 19th century Scotland, the horror aisles of the video rental stores of our youths, and through the band’s history itself,” EXHUMED mastermind Matt Harvey says. “This time around, we’re inviting you to accompany us to a place that we spend a disproportionate amount of our lives, someplace familiar yet far more dangerous than it feels, a place that can take you to the hospital or the grave in more ways than you can imagine: the American roadway.”

The latest wrong turn from the driving force of gore metal, Red Asphalt crashes the band’s hook-laden, high-speed deathgrind into whiplash-inducing grooves and dangerous musical curves. The record serves as a love letter to the road – horrific accidents, vehicular homicide, defective cars, gore-filled instructional videos, zombified biker gangs, and more. True to the band’s spirit, Red Asphalt drags the listener through a whirlwind of riffy madness. Tracks like the aptly titled “Unsafe At Any Speed,” “Shovelhead,” and “The Iron Graveyard” ooze with sleaze and groove while retaining all of the high-octane, full-throttle, white-knuckle madness you’ve come to demand from EXHUMED. Take the album for a spin and get your kicks on Route 666!

Red Asphalt Track Listing:

• 1. Unsafe At Any Speed
• 2. Red Asphalt
• 3. Shock Trauma
• 4. Shovelhead
• 5. The Iron Graveyard
• 6. Crawling From The Wreckage
• 7. Signal Thirty
• 8. Death On Four Wheels
• 9. Symphorophilia
• 10. The Fumes

EXHUMED will take Red Asphalt on the road throughout 2026 starting with a US headlining tour from February 19th through March 21st with Oxygen Destroyer and No/Más! Following a quick pit stop, EXHUMED returns to Europe/UK this Spring with labelmates Gruesome from April 4th through May 2nd. To round out the first half of 2026, EXHUMED will make their return down under to Australia and New Zealand for a week’s worth of headlining shows from May 27th through June 8th!

Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below.

EXHUMED Live w/ Oxygen Destroyer, No/Más:

• 2/19/2026 The Ritz – The Ritz San Jose, CA
• 2/20/2026 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA
• 2/21/2026 Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ
• 2/22/2026 Dive Bar – Las Vegas, NV
• 2/24/2026 O’ Death – San Antonio, TX
• 2/25/2026 The Lost Well – Austin, TX
• 2/26/2026 The End – Houston, TX
• 2/27/2026 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
• 2/28/2026 Merry Widow – Mobile, AL
• 3/01/2026 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
• 3/03/2026 Super Rad Arcade – Lynchburg, VA
• 3/04/2026 Chapel Of Bones – Raleigh, NC
• 3/05/2026 The Wormhole – Savannah, GA
• 3/06/2026 New Brookland Tavern – Columbia, SC
• 3/07/2026 Conduit – Orlando, FL
• 3/08/2026 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL
• 3/09/2026 The Handlebar – Pensacola, FL
• 3/10/2026 The Pit – Lafayette, LA
• 3/11/2026 Double Wide – Dallas, TX
• 3/12/2026 89th St.- Oklahoma City, OK
• 3/13/2026 The Garden – Lubbock, TX
• 3/14/2026 The Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
• 3/15/2026 The Rock – Tucson, AZ
• 3/18/2026 Humdinger Brewing – San Luis Obispo, CA
• 3/19/2026 Moroccan Lounge – Los Angeles, CA
• 3/20/2026 Café Colonial – Sacramento, CA
• 3/21/2026 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA