The Antlers have announced their eagerly awaited new album, Blight, arriving via Transgressive Records on Friday, October 10. Pre-orders/pre-saves are available now. The Antlers’ first new studio album in over four years, Blight, is heralded by today’s premiere of the volatile “Carnage,” available at all digital services now. A roadkill murder ballad that lurks in a brooding crawl before erupting into full-band maelstrom, the track sees singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer Peter Silberman’s roaring Telecaster swarming around longtime collaborator Michael Lerner’s cacophonous drumming, harnessing an energy the band has long conjured in a live setting but until now never put to tape.

“‘Carnage’ is a song about a kind of violence we rarely acknowledge — violence not born of cruelty, but of convenience,” says Peter Silberman. “Innocent creatures are swept up in the path of destruction as their world collides with ours, and we barely notice.”