The bog is coming.
Australian heavy metal outfit Battlesnake have announced their new album, Bogpocalypse and the Annihilation of Lucifer, set for release 19th February 2027, with the album announcement accompanied by the release of the record’s third single, ‘Bog Bringer’.
Stream ‘Bog Bringer’ here: https://battlesnake.lnk.to/BogBringer
Pre-order Bogpocalypse and the Annihilation of Lucifer here: https://battlesnake.lnk.to/BATAOL
Following the previously released singles ‘I Killed Satan‘ and ‘Mud Apocalypse‘, ‘Bog Bringer’ offers another glimpse into a record that exists somewhere between a campfire ghost story and a loaded weapon, swampy, unholy and gleefully pulpy.
Ask Battlesnake to describe the album and they don’t reach for genre tags. They describe it as “a 90s Goosebumps novel with guns.”
Bogpocalypse and the Annihilation of Lucifer finds Battlesnake at a new point in their evolution. After years of recording and relentlessly touring together, the band entered the studio with something they hadn’t quite experienced before: certainty.
That familiarity became the foundation for a different kind of Battlesnake record. Where previous albums were acts of discovery, Bogpocalypse became an exercise in execution, six musicians who know exactly what they bring to the room and how to push each other further.
The album was recorded in Prague, Czech Republic, during a dedicated three-and-a-half-week studio session. Living together on-site in a foreign country, the band were effectively sealed away with nothing but the songs and each other.
That atmosphere is embedded throughout Bogpocalypse: claustrophobic, humid and tense, but always with Battlesnake‘s sense of humour lurking somewhere in the swamp.
It’s nostalgic and dangerous at once, the lurid cover, cheap thrills and campfire dread of a book you probably shouldn’t have been reading after bedtime, weaponised and turned up loud. That tension runs through the three singles released from the album.
‘I Killed Satan’ is a gleefully profane victory lap through the underworld, powered by riffs that take the song’s ridiculous premise completely seriously. ‘Mud Apocalypse’ drags that same energy into the swamp, waterlogged, feral and built to be played at an irresponsible volume. And now ‘Bog Bringer’ arrives with the album announcement, expanding the world of Bogpocalypse and offering another glimpse at the record’s darker, heavier and increasingly strange territory.
Together, the three singles reveal an album about digging yourself out of the muck and setting the devil on fire on the way up.
Bogpocalypse and the Annihilation of Lucifer isn’t simply a bigger Battlesnake record.
It’s a braver one.
The bog is open. Lucifer has been warned.
Bogpocalypse cements Battlesnake‘s positionas one of heavy music’s most infectiously fun, dizzyingly raucous acts.
In 2026 they had a non-stop year of touring, including opening mainstage at Bloodstock, before two sold out headline shows at Brighton and London. The group also performed their legendary live silent disco sets at 2000trees and ArcTanGent.
Channelling the grandiosity of Queen, the steel of Judas Priest, and the doom-laden power of Black Sabbath, Battlesnake forge a sound that feels both gloriously familiar and strikingly original.
The band’s international breakthrough came in 2024 with The Rise and Demise of the Motorsteeple, a high-octane concept album that blended thunderous metal with intricate narrative ambition. They followed this with 2025’s Dawn Of The Exultants And The Hunt For The Shepherd. In their time, the band have performed with KISS, The Smashing Pumpkins, Jane’s Addiction, at Download (UK), Copenhell (Denmark), Rock for People (Czech Republic), Mad Cool (Spain), and more.
All hail Battlesnake!
Battlesnake are:
Nick Zammit (drums)
Sam Frank (vocals)
Ben Frank (guitar)
Daniel Willington (guitar)
Billy O’Key (keytar)
Elliot Hitchcock (bass)
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