THANATOS – the first extreme metal band to emerge from the Netherlands and one of the oldest death metal bands in the world (dating back to 1984) – celebrates its 40th year of existence with a post-mortem anniversary album, “Four Decades Of Death”. The album consists of previously unreleased songs and a bonus DVD (included with the CD & LP release), which captures, on a multi-cam recording, the band’s last live show from 2022.

“From beyond the grave we bring you this album with unreleased stuff from the past four decades plus a cool live registration of our last show ever,” comments THANATOS’s founder, Stephan Gebdi (Hail Of Bullets). “Filmed at the Baroeg Open Air festival in our hometown Rotterdam on September 10th 2022, the band played songs ranging from the early demo days to our final album Violent Death Rituals in front of about 8000 people. This is a posthumous celebration of our 40th anniversary. Releasing this rare, unreleased stuff on CD/vinyl and our final show on DVD feels like a great way to end things or, to put it more bluntly, put the last nail in our coffin!”

“Four Decades Of Death” will be released in CD, LP (both formats to include the bonus DVD) and digital. The cover artwork was drawn by Toni Hietomaa.