This new album by the San Francisco Bay Area band is a monster and one of the best releases in the genre this year. Fans of NEUROSIS, ALTAR OF PLAGUES, INTER ARMA, THOU, PRIMITIVE MAN, SAMOTHRACE, AMENRA, TRAGEDY, COFFINWORM, INDIAN, UNKIND, CELESTE, WOLVHAMMER, UNEARTHLY TRANCE and the such, please take note of the below!
Sentient Ruin Laboratories is releasing the cassette tape and digital versions of Abstracter‘s brand new second full-length album, in collaboration with Germany’s Vendetta Records and 7Degrees Records, Italy’sShove Records, and the US’s Fragile Branch Recordings all handling the LP, and the UK’s COF Records handling the CD version.
Drawing musical influence from legendary underground heavyweights like Godflesh, Swans, Amebix,Neurosis, His Hero is Gone, Blut Aus Nord, Dystopia, Beherit, Corrupted, Grief, and Darkthrone,Wound Empire is a cataclysmic blackened sludge album that once again sees the band dwell in its obsession for massive and crushing riffing, dismal and unsettling soundscapes, and with their fascination with concepts of human decline, cultural and industrial ruin, and complete social collapse.
Wound Empire was recorded and mixed between May 23 and June 13th 2014 at Earhammer Studios in Oakland, California by Greg “The Wizard of Doom” Wilkinson (Brainoil, Iron Lung, Pallbearer Lycus, Laudanum, High On Fire, Noothgrush, OM, Atriarch, Sleep, Worm Ouroboros, Vohl) and was mastered atAudiosiege Mastering studios in Portland, Oregon by Brad Boatright (Wolves in the Throne room, Culted, Oathbreaker, Dead in the Dirt, Nails, Sleep, Sunn O))) and countless others), and features beautiful artwork and packaging design by Kevin Gan Yuen of Bay Area cult blackened noise sorcerers Sutekh Hexen. With out a shadow of a doubt this is a release to look out for in the underground and in the realm of all things heavy and dark, and is also an absolute must for any fan of bands like Altar of Plagues, Inter Arma, Thou, Samothrace, Amenra, Drudkh, Tragedy, Coffinworm, Indian, Unkind, Wolvhammer, Unearthly Trance and the such.
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