With new album Dead Planet out this Friday, December 2nd, on Good Fight Music, HOLLOW EARTH offers up a stream of the entire album, premiered here via Metal Injection and below. Founded in the greater Detroit area, the band has been perfecting its apocalyptic metalcore over the past few years, gradually arriving at a sound that’s essentially the ultimate soundtrack to hurtling through glorious yet deadly expanses of deep space. Dead Planet pushes HOLLOW EARTH’s outerspace obsessions via a full-fledged sci-fi storyline, connecting it to the band’s previous release, the Parting Remains EP. Concept and music are synced perfectly – monolithic Neurosis-core evokes visions of the interstellar void. Produced by Misery Signals’ Greg Thomas, the album features guest appearances by Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder, and Tad Doyle of Tad, and John Pettibone of Heiress.
“Between profound beauty and earth shattering tribal hits… Sonically precise and larger than life… A benchmark for future releases on Good Fight Music.”
–Metal Injection“Moody, tribal, and groovy… One of the finest metallic hardcore acts on the scene today.”
–MetalSucks“Sometimes sounding like a hardcore band who accidentally stepped on a phaser pedal, and other times like Slowdive getting beaten up in an alley, it surprisingly plays to the strengths of both ideas – big hooks but also a focused approach that still delivers the riff.”
–Decibel“This expansive and powerful album, resting on a strongly fleshed-out science fiction concept, channels the dynamic between metalcore and stoner metal.”
–Heavy Blog Is Heavy“A concept album with a well mapped narrative… Nearly every track has a strong melodic guitar line running through the sturm und drang of Hollow Earth’s almost sludgy attack… A fantastic, propulsive energy that draws you in… It’s stirring stuff.”
–Echoes and Dust
