Eaten By Sharks
The record follows a journey that begins in calm, descends into chaos at sea, and returns transformed into something darker and irreversible.
Eaten By Sharks — the St. Catharines, Ontario progressive death metal five-piece — have announced The Undertow of Hate, their sophomore album via CDN Records, arriving July 17, 2026. Lead single “Capsized” is out now: a polyrhythmic, groove-driven descent from open water into total chaos, and the first chapter of a conceptual nautical horror narrative that runs through the entire record.
Produced alongside Christian Donaldson — the Cryptopsy mastermind who engineered, mixed, and mastered the record — this is Eaten By Sharks at their most focused and compositionally ambitious. Four years on from Eradication, the band has built something with genuine cinematic architecture beneath the brutality.
“We took time to fully immerse ourselves in the writing process and build a cohesive concept rooted in a single cinematic moment of horror. This album reflects a deeper understanding of who we are as artists.”
— Eaten By SharksOut of the Niagara Scene
Eaten By Sharks formed in the Niagara region of Ontario — a metal scene that rarely makes international headlines, which makes the band’s technical ambition feel all the more self-generated. The core of the group built around guitarists Chris Chaperon and Dan Okowinsky, who found their footing in other bands before gravitating toward something heavier. The current five-piece lineup — rounded out by vocalist Matt Sherriff, bassist Tyler Abrams, and drummer Justin Whitehead — has been developing a nautical horror conceptual thread since the beginning, treating the deep ocean as both literal subject and metaphor for isolation, destruction, and psychological collapse.
Their 2022 debut Eradication established the template: technical precision, deathcore aggression, and a lyrical fixation on oceanic dread that set them apart from genre peers. The Undertow of Hate takes that foundation and pushes harder on the compositional and cinematic elements, building a record designed to function as a full narrative arc rather than a collection of standalone tracks.
“Capsized” captures the moment where calm waters give way to total chaos — the track that cracks the surface before the album pulls you under.
— Exposed VocalsThe Undertow of Hate — What to Expect
“Capsized,” the lead single, is out now and sets the conceptual stakes clearly. The track opens in relative control — polyrhythmic riffing, odd time signatures, a groove that rewards close listening — before the drop arrives and the architecture collapses exactly as the title suggests. It’s a deliberate opening gambit: show the listener what calm looks like first, so the chaos lands harder.
The full album, produced in collaboration with Christian Donaldson (Cryptopsy), was engineered, mixed, and mastered by Donaldson — a production lineage that brings genuine extreme metal credibility and studio precision to the project. The band describes the record as prioritizing flow, momentum, and unpredictability over formula, with each track contributing to the overarching narrative of descent and irreversible transformation at sea. For fans of Gojira’s conceptual ambition, Fit For An Autopsy’s groove-and-brutality balance, and Cattle Decapitation’s willingness to let a record mean something, this is worth tracking ahead of the July drop.
It is heavy, groovy, and constantly evolving without losing coherence — produced by Christian Donaldson, engineered for maximum impact, and built around a dark conceptual thread that runs from the first note to the last.
— Eaten By Sharks on The Undertow of HateWhy This Record Matters
The extreme metal underground has no shortage of technically proficient bands. What separates Eaten By Sharks on The Undertow of Hate is the commitment to concept as structural force — the nautical horror framework isn’t window dressing, it’s the logic that governs how the album moves. A journey that begins in calm, descends into chaos, and returns to its starting point transformed: that’s not just a press release description, it’s a compositional challenge the band has explicitly built the sequencing around.
With Donaldson behind the board and the band’s most focused writing to date on tape, The Undertow of Hate positions Eaten By Sharks as one of the more intentional acts operating in Canadian extreme metal right now. Catch “Capsized” now and pre-save the album ahead of the July 17 release.
The Undertow of Hate arrives July 17 via CDN Records. “Capsized” is streaming now. Blood in the water.
