Extreme metal / death metal act UMBRA VITAEย (feat. Jacob Bannon of Converge, Wear Your Wounds, Mike McKenzie of The Red Chord, Wear Your Wounds, Sean Martin of Twitching Tongues, Wear Your Wounds, ex-Hatebreed, Jon Rice of Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, ex-Job for a Cowboy, and Greg Weeks (The Red Chord)) have released their crushing new track “Return to Zero“, coming from their debut record, Shadow of Life, slated for a May 1st via Deathwish Inc.!
Originally scheduled to come out later this year, Umbra Vitae โShadow Of Lifeโ will now be available digitally on May 1st with Vinyl, CD and Cassette coming later this year. Listen โReturn To Zeroโ and pre-save now.”Shadow of Life” is the ten song debut album from Umbra Vitae, recorded and mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios. Guitars and bass were recorded by Mike McKenzie at The Black Coast. The album was mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Intro โDecadence Dissolvesโ is a Schuldiner-esque calm before the storm. โEthereal Emptinessโ and โAtheist Aestheticโ soon rip everything apart, methodically downshifting from blackened to brutal in tone. โMantra of Madnessโ then emerges as a monster of a song, driven by inhuman drumming and traditional death metal riffing. This pattern of intensity continues in โFear is a Fossilโ, โPolluted Paradiseโ, and โIntimate Infernoโ. All are motion sickness inducing numbers that violently lurch in aural agony. Itโs here one realizes that this album never lets up.
โReturn to Zeroโ takes it to another level, viciously grinding as the lines โReturn to zero, bite down on the chain, bow down to no oneโ repeat as mantra.
This leads to โBlood Blossomโ an amalgamation of metal ferocity and hardcore spirit that could very well be the heaviest track of them all. Infectious closer โShadow of Lifeโ then screams in terror as it tells the tale of the internal battle of the dark and light within us all.
UMBRA VITAE are:
Jacob Bannon: Vocals, Lyrics
Mike McKenzie: Guitars, Vocals
Sean Martin: Guitars, Vocals
Greg Weeks: Bass
Jon Rice: Drums
