The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me, the mammoth new full-length from New Zealand-based progressive death metal collective BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS, is out TODAY on Prosthetic Records!
What does obsession do to your mind? When you fixate on one particular person, place, or event, it clouds your thoughts, pollutes your feelings, and takes over your very being. You lose yourself and succumb to your basest instincts to pursue this obsession at all costs. BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS channels the extremes of a psychotic break into an ambitious sonic tableau of intricately airtight metal, eerie production, and insidiously memorable screams. Set to this pummeling soundtrack, the quintet implants an immersive story into the core of their fifth full-length offering, The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me.
Everything in Noise writes in part, “The weight, intensity, and speed are all great at expressing the darker emotions wrenching out of us in different ways with questionable legality. The angularity, diversity, and chaos propel it all in compelling, exacting ways so as to at least emulate a concord of ideas on a cerebral level. In other words, it’s frenetic and fancy.” Toilet Ov Hell notes, “From bursts of atonal tapping (think Cytotoxin or Beneath The Massacre) to post-metal melodies, The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me (rolls off the tongue!) defies expectations, logic, and sanity,” while Apanthropy hails, “…a constant tension-inducing blast of dissonant, progressive, technical death metal,” adding, “It moves like gears in a complex machine, each modicum of movement is precise, accurate, brutally efficient, stick your fingers inside and you’ll pull back stumps. It’s controlling and merciless, like choking somebody out and bringing them back only to choke them out again, over and over.” Heavy Music HQ concurs, “Far from simply following in the footsteps of its predecessor, this album asserts itself as a confident step forward, proving the band’s ability to innovate while deepening their voice within extreme metal.”
BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS’ The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me is out now digitally and in CD format.
Stream / download / purchase the new album here.
In celebration of the release of The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me, BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS return to US soil tonight, October 10th, in Los Angeles, California with Volcandra for a three-week tour. The journey runs through November 1st in Las Vegas, Nevada. See all confirmed dates below.
BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS w/ Volcandra:
10/10/2025 The Virgil – Los Angeles, CA
10/11/2025 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA
10/12/2025 Transplants Brewing – Palmdale, CA
10/14/2025 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
10/15/2025 The Dip – Redding, CA
10/16/2025 The High-Water Mark – Portland, OR
10/17/2025 Substation – Seattle, WA
10/18/2025 Ray’s Golden Lion – Richland, WA
10/19/2025 The Shredder – Boise, ID
10/20/2025 Aces High Saloon – Salt Lake City, UT
10/22/2025 The Crypt – Denver, CO
10/23/2025 1867 Bar – Lincoln, NE
10/24/2025 Underground Music Venue – Minneapolis, MN
10/25/2025 Club Garibaldi – Milwaukee, WI
10/26/2025 Reggies Music Joint – Chicago, IL
10/28/2025 MiniBar – Kansas City, MO
10/29/2025 89th Street – Oklahoma City, OK
10/30/2025 Tumbleroot Brewery And Distillery – Santa Fe, NM
10/31/2025 Ground Zero Studios – Phoenix, AZ
11/01/2025 The Griffin – Las Vegas, NV
