God Dethroned: Henri Sattler (vocals, guitar); Susan Gerl (guitar); Henke Zinger (bass guitar); Roel Sanders (drums).

Dutch death metal monarchs God Dethroned are one of the few metal bands that consistently challenge themselves. Be it progressive composition or simply their brutal delivery, each album is always a surprise. And PASSIONDALE, their eighth, is no exception. Veering away from anti-Christian storytelling, the band offers a conceptual album recounting the horrors of life in the embattled small villages of Ypres and Passchendaele, which between them saw 900,000 casualties during World War I. The band's dark musicianship accentuates the solemn nature of the story, creating in turn a truly melodic death metal masterpiece.

CMJ - "On PASSIONDALE, God Dethroned manages to give each track its own unique and memorable sound while maintaining the album's World War I theme, successfully building an epic war story track by track."