Swept Into Decay Follow Three Years of Czech Deathcore Singles with BODY//GOLD, Their First EP
Swept Into Decay Follow Three Years of Czech Deathcore Singles with BODY//GOLD, Their First EP
Five Tracks, Two Guests and a Title Song the Band Single Out for Its Drums
Swept Into Decay released BODY//GOLD on 18 September 2026 through Seek & Strike. The five-track deathcore EP pairs this year’s singles Ethereal and Burning Vexation with three new songs. It is the Czech band’s first EP, after testing ideas one release at a time since June 2023.
Swept Into Decay’s music is in the playlist below, next to the heaviest records on this desk, and the band’s coverage is kept on the Swept Into Decay artist profile. BODY//GOLD, released on Seek & Strike, came to us through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news sites. Give the EP a listen first, then read on for how the band got here.
To see why the EP matters, start with the band. They formed in March 2022 in Ostrava, Czech Republic, a city built on steelmaking. Today they are a five-piece, with Adam Rohel on vocals and Jiří Olbrecht on bass. Michal Herman and Michal Kašpar play guitars, and Tomáš Petr plays drums.
The first single, Silenced Puppets, came out on 30 June 2023. Below Zero and War of Parasites followed before the end of that year. Then 2024 brought a two-track REMIXED release, Seamstress (Stitcher of Sins) in July and Labyrinth of Suffering in October. Perfect Chaos arrived in March 2025.
The stage grew with the releases, too. In August 2024 the band supported Emmure at Barrák Music Club. In May 2025 they played the Nice To Eat You Deathfest, whose booking announcement noted they still had only singles out. A longer recording, it said, was still to come. BODY//GOLD is that recording.
BODY//GOLD by Swept Into Decay Runs to Five Tracks, With Guests From Edge of Illusion and Defamed
The EP runs to just under 22 minutes. It opens with Ethereal, a March single with Martin Sinner of Edge of Illusion as its guest. Then it closes on Die As One, the longest of the five at almost six minutes.
Burning Vexation, out in August with Mattia Maffioli of Defamed, goes the other way. It is the shortest and most direct song here, done in under three minutes.
Across the five songs the guitars are tuned low and switch between thick groove sections and more technical riff work. Meanwhile the drums push with blast beats and heavy accents. Rohel’s voice sits mostly in a deep growl, then breaks into harsher, shouted lines closer to hardcore.
The title track is the one the band point to first. Herman and Rohel wrote it, and Simone Pietroforte produced it. Petr wrote its drum parts, which the band have named as the song’s biggest highlight. It is also the most groove-driven of the five.
Two Dancers, a Five-Minute Hitsugi and the Deathcore Bands Swept Into Decay Sit Beside
The title track’s video came out the day before the EP, filmed in the same place as the Ethereal video. Two dancers start as equals until one begins to consume the other. It is the song’s fight between good and evil, played out in movement, and the gold of the title is the last good part still showing through the scars.
Third in the running order, Hitsugi runs for nearly five minutes. It gives Herman and Kašpar the most room to develop their parts. Whitechapel built their sound on three guitarists for most of their career. So Hitsugi is the clearest case of Swept Into Decay chasing that same layered weight with two.
The darker passages, where the EP leans towards blackened metal, point to Lorna Shore instead. Their 2021 single To the Hellfire carried blackened deathcore to a far bigger audience than the style had reached before. On this EP, the opening song sits closest to that darker side of the genre.
From the MusicDrops.News curator team: “The running order is the quiet strength here. With the two singles placed first and fourth, every new song lands next to something listeners already know. The title track’s groove holds the middle of the EP together.”
Swept Into Decay Take BODY//GOLD Into Winter Shows With Kanine and A Night in Texas
So the next step is the stage. The EP had its launch show at Barrák Music Club on 3 October, with Edge of Illusion on the same bill. Two more dates are already set.
The Slavic Invasion Tour reaches Sport Bar Penalta in Přerov on 21 November. Then, on 11 February 2027, the band play Modrá vopice in Prague alongside Kanine and A Night in Texas.
The Austrian metal site AMMO gave the EP 9 out of 10. Still, its reviewer finished wanting either a full album or a steadier run of singles, and which way the band go is open. After three years of one song at a time, BODY//GOLD is the first proof their songs work as a set. It also gives those winter dates a full record to draw from.
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