UNVEIL ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE
DEATH OF A DEAD DAY MMXXVI
REMIXED BY ADAM ‘NOLLY’ GETGOOD
OUT 4TH DECEMBER via COOKING VINYL
ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
FOR THE FIRST TIME
PRE-SAVE / PRE-ORDER HERE
RELEASE NEW VERSION OF
‘FLOGGING THE HORSES’
WATCH HERE || LISTEN HERE
| Photo credit: Dean Addison | |
| Today, visionary British prog-metal legends SIKTH have revealed Death of a Dead Day MMXXVI, a fully revived and remastered edition of their critically acclaimed and highly influential sophomore album. Mixed by long-time collaborator and admirer of the band, Adam “Nolly” Getgood, the re-release arrives twenty years after the release of the album, celebrating the album’s anniversary and cementing its legacy as one of the most important progressive metal releases of all time. Death of a Dead Day MMXXVI will be released on 4th December 2026 via Cooking Vinyl. Accompanying the announcement, SIKTH have shared a brand new version of ‘Flogging the Horses‘ providing fans with a first taste of the upcoming release. Speaking on Death of a Dead Day MMXXVI, SIKTH guitarist and renowned producer Dan Weller comments: “I can’t quite believe it’s been 20 years since Death of a Dead Day. It’s an album that we’re still incredibly proud of, and it means a huge amount to us. “We’re really excited for people to hear the 2026 version, with Nolly bringing his fresh take to the mix. I think it’s turned out great. It’s also pretty crazy to think that Nolly was one of the first people to start making SIKTH guitar covers on YouTube when the album was originally released. In a way, that makes him the perfect person to revisit it — there aren’t many people who know Death of a Dead Day as intimately as he does.” Speaking on his experience reviving the album, Adam “Nolly” Getgood adds: “It’s hard to overstate just how impactful Death of a Dead Day was on me, and on so many of the people in my circle. . Giving the album a sonic freshen-up has been an absolute joy and left me even more in awe of what the band created 20 years ago. When I started the remixing project I wondered if peering behind the curtain would take away some of the magic, but the opposite was true: the songs are more majestic, heavier and more deeply layered than I ever realised, and the performances are so incredibly bold and characterful. As a body of work it’s still so fresh, perhaps even more relevant than before with all that has happened in the progressive metal space in the interim. I hope this remix brings it all back again for OG fans, and blows away new listeners the same way it did for us back in 2006!” Pre-save and pre-order the album here Listen to ‘Flogging the Horses’ here |
Released on 6th June 2006, Death of a Dead Day was the album on which SIKTH’s musical language reached its most concentrated and influential form. Songs such as ‘Bland Street Bloom’, ‘Flogging the Horses’, ‘Sanguine Seas of Bigotry’ and ‘Part of the Friction’ moved between punishing grooves, technical counterpoint and extraordinary vocal performances.
The album’s achievement lay not simply in its difficulty, but in making extreme technicality feel physical and dramatic. Guitarist Dan Weller later offered a more prosaic description of its creation: “For us it was just a bunch of dudes arguing and trying to write these really difficult songs.” Looking back on the band’s original instincts, he added that “we knew we were making music for the future.”
Its long-term influence grew as a new generation of progressive-metal musicians embraced displaced accents, polymetric structures and rhythmically intricate guitar work. SIKTH did not single-handedly invent djent, but their first two albums provided an essential bridge between the experimental metal of the 1990s and the progressive-metal explosion of the following decade.
Death of a Dead Day MMXXVI will be available on the following formats:
- 2CD – disc two is the instrumentals of the album (available at all retail)
- Orange & Black marble double LP (available at all retail)
- Silver & Black Splatter double LP (SIKTH store exclusive / limited to 300 units)
- White & Black Marble double LP (Sheet Happens exclusive / limited to 200 units)
- White label test pressing LP (SIKTH store exclusive / limited to 10 units)
| BAND MEMBERS Mikee W. Goodman – vocals Justin Hill – vocals Dan Weller – guitar Graham “Pin” Pinney – guitars James Leach – bass Dan “Loord” Foord – drums FOLLOW SIKTH Facebook || Instagram || Spotify || Apple Music |
