Australian funeral doom metal outfit Inverloch have just premiered the new track entitled “The Empyrean Torment” via Stereogum. The band’s upcoming album, Distance | Collapsed is due out on March 4th, 2016 via Relapse Records. You need to sample this slow dirge of death to get a feel for the gloomy texture of this remarkable band. Be sure to hit the link below to hear the new track.
From The Press Release
Melbourne death/doom veterans INVERLOCH have shared a second crushing track from their highly-anticipated full-length debut Distance | Collapsed.
“The Empyrean Torment,” currently playing at indie music portal Stereogum, demonstrates the band’s monumental mastery of tension and texture, and can be streamed now at THIS LOCATION.
Issues Stereogum of the track, “INVERLOCH are a technically young band, but their roots run deep. Guitarist Matthew Scarajew and drummer Paul Mazziotta were pivotal members of Disembowelment, whose sole 1993 album Transcendence Into The Peripheral helped define the chiming, glacially-paced death metal mutation which eventually became funeral doom in the hands of acts like Evoken, Skepticism, and Esoteric. INVERLOCH practices this sepulchral discipline with mastery befitting their history on Distance | Collapsed, their first full-length effort under the new moniker. ‘The Empyrean Torment’ largely consists of a particularly vivid example of this approach – the band’s weight swings like a pendulum from beat to ponderous beat, accentuating a series of despondent melodies that sound like they’re wailing out of some vast cave. But INVERLOCH can crush at speed, too, and prove it at the song’s rabid conclusion.”
The album’s title track, “Distance Collapsed (In Rubble),” also premiered this past January via Decibel Magazine and can be heard at THIS LOCATION:
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