Vogg Says Decapitated’s New Album is Halfway Done – But When Will It Drop?

Summary

• Vogg has written 50% of the new Decapitated album—but what does “50%” even mean?? He revealed this mid-cruise on 70000 Tons of Metal, while presumably avoiding overpriced cocktails and existential dread.
• Writing at home is chaos—Vogg battles tiny children, random distractions, and the eternal hunt for riffs. After the ‘Nihility Across America’ tour, he plans to escape to a rehearsal cave to finish the album in peace (lol, good luck).
• Fans will hate the album—until they don’t. History repeats itself: Metalheads raged over Sepultura’s ‘Roots’ and Metallica’s ‘Load’, but now? Classics. Vogg knows this cycle well and fully expects the initial meltdown.

OKAY, SO—Vogg, the guitar wizard of Decapitated, has somehow managed to write 50% of the band’s new album. Fifty. Percent. Not 49%. Not 51%. Exactly half. And he dropped this information like it was no big deal while floating on the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise, which, if you don’t know, is basically a lawless, floating metal festival where dehydration, questionable decisions, and ear-shattering riffs collide on the high seas. Think Coachella, but instead of influencers in cowboy boots, it’s dudes named Greg who haven’t seen daylight since Pantera broke up.

Anyway, Vogg spilled the details on the Brutally Delicious podcast, and the vibe was very much “Yeah, I’m working on it, whatever, let me enjoy my overpriced piña colada.” His exact words:

“Yeah, I’m working on it. I’m working on the new songs. I have already, let’s say 50%, I guess, of the new Decapitated record.”

WHICH—first of all—what does “let’s say 50%” even mean??? Are we talking 50% written? 50% recorded? 50% thought about in the shower while zoning out like a Skyrim NPC? Unclear.

But one thing is certain: it exists, kinda, and eventually, maybe, it will become an album.

Vogg is writing a death metal album while dodging tiny humans

Look, writing music is hard. Writing music while living with small children is like trying to play Doom Eternal on a controller made of soap—pure chaos, slippery, probably impossible. And yet, Vogg is doing it.

“I’m working at home. I have my room, so I can separate from the family, from kids. But still I can hear them.”

IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL: Vogg, hunched over his guitar, trying to summon a face-melting riff from the depths of the void while, in the distance, a tiny voice is screaming “DAD I NEED MORE JUICE” and another small human is trying to ride the dog like a horse.

That’s the energy here.

This dude has written FOUR ALBUMS in the middle of domestic mayhem—which means one of two things:

1. He has the patience of a Buddhist monk, or
2. He has noise-canceling headphones that block out sound AND the concept of time.

But even Vogg has limits, which is why after Decapitated’s “Nihility Across America” tour, he’s planning a hard reset in their rehearsal space.

“After the tour I have a plan to just go to our rehearsal space and just work on the material there, to be completely out of everything, separated. And I believe it will work well for that.”

Translation: “I love my family, but if I don’t lock myself in a soundproof room, this album is never happening.”

Riff-hunting like an apex predator

Some musicians go all “the album must have a grand artistic vision, a cohesive theme, a message for the ages.” NOT VOGG. His process is much more hunter-gatherer energy.

“Anything can inspire me. And just hunting, fishing for the riff.”

HUNTING. FISHING. FOR. THE. RIFF.

Tell me this isn’t the most metal thing ever—just Vogg, in the deep, dark forest of guitar tones, crouching in the shadows, waiting for the perfect riff to emerge from the underbrush so he can pounce and tame it into a song.

Meanwhile, he’s ALSO gotta practice like a madman, because playing in Decapitated isn’t just strumming power chords and yelling. It’s math-metal on steroids.

“If you play Decapitated, you can’t stop to practice. You can stop practice for one week, but then you need to practice even more to go on stage and perform this kind of stuff.”

Fans: “WHY DID YOU CHANGE” → Ten years later: “Actually, this is a classic”

Now let’s talk about every band’s worst nightmare—fans having a nuclear meltdown every time they evolve. Vogg has been in the game long enough to know the cycle.

1. Band releases new album
2. Fans scream “THIS ISN’T MY BAND ANYMORE”
3. Ten years pass
4. Those same fans: “Wait… actually… this slaps.”

Vogg gets it. He even compared it to the collective metalhead tantrums over Metallica’s ‘Load’ and Sepultura’s ‘Roots’—both of which people hated at the time, only to mysteriously become classics decades later.

“It’s like—I don’t know—when Metallica released the ‘Load’ album, or Sepultura released ‘Roots Bloody Roots’, I was, like, ‘That’s it. I’m done with this band.’ And then right now, it’s, like, ‘Holy shit. It’s a good jam.’”

Meanwhile, Decapitated is out here changing the roster like a fantasy football team

While Vogg has been chasing riffs in the wilderness, Decapitated has ALSO been restructuring their entire lineup like a reality show that kicks people off the island.

• Rafał “Rasta” Piotrowski (vocals) is OUT
• Eemeli Bodde (Mors Subita) is IN
• OG vocalist Wojciech “Sauron” Wąsowicz popped in for a guest spot at Damnation Festival 2024, sending longtime fans into cardiac arrest.

Also they just dropped two live videos for “Names” and “Eternity Too Short”—from their 2002 album ‘Nihility’, because nothing says “Here’s the future” quite like… uh… a 22-year-old song.

Decapitated’s tour—A.K.A. “We Will Destroy Your Neck Muscles 2025”

Currently, Decapitated is destroying venues across the US and Canada, headlining the “Nihility Across America” tour with Incantation, Darkest Hour, and Exmortus. The grand finale is March 2 in Santa Ana, California, so:

• Necks will be sore.
• Ears will be ringing.
• At least one guy will try to start a mosh pit at a Waffle House at 3 AM.

Final thoughts (if that’s what we’re calling this)

SO WHAT’S THE BIG PICTURE HERE?

• Vogg has written half an album… probably.
• The hunt for riffs is a sacred journey.
• Fans will hate change, then pretend they always loved it.
• Decapitated is still crushing skulls, swapping members, and making death metal that requires a PhD in wrist endurance.

And now we wait—because if metal history has taught us anything, it’s that the most chaotic, unpredictable, face-melting albums are forged in absolute madness.

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