Doom Metal Artist GRIM COLOSSUS To Release Lovecraft-Inspired New EP “Unhallowed Blasphemies” on November 28th!

Swedish doom metaller GRIM COLOSSUS has announced that his new EP “Unhallowed Blasphemies” will be released on November 28th. The work follows the full-length “Descent Into Madness” released in 2024 and it is available for pre-order on Bandcamp.

“Unhallowed Blasphemies” features four songs inspired by H.P Lovecraft stories. As in the previous work, “Unhallowed Blasphemies” has the same dark atmospheres with haunting riffs and dramatic vocals telling tales of horror.

You can have a foretaste of what you might expect from the EP with the single “The Whisperer.” Inspired by “The Whisperer In Darkness,” it is the story of a man who investigates strange, crustacean-like bodies found after a Vermont flood, leading him to an eccentric hermit who has been plagued by an Alien race from the hills near his house. Stream it on Bandcamp and the main digital services:

Bandcamp: https://grimcolossus.bandcamp.com/album/unhallowed-blasphemies
YouTube Music: https://tinyurl.com/52kfwn5w
Apple Music: https://tinyurl.com/4shjwubp
Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/ywrmunar
Deezer: https://tinyurl.com/3tunvmeu

A dark and dreary sound with a focus on heavy riffs, and a gloomy atmosphere, accompanied by haunting lyrics and vocal style has been the goal of GRIM COLOSSUS, the one-man band hailing from Sweden, on the island of Hönö right outside of Gothenburg.

Inspired by epic and traditional doom metal bands such as Candlemass, Solitude Aeturnus, Trouble, among other great metal acts whose influence can be heard through the music, and was apparent for new fans since the beginning of the debut EP in 2022.

What originally started as a few jumbled musical ideas with no goal in mind, quickly became something with a life of its own, after lighting a spark within.

Though hints of the aforementioned influences can always be heard, GRIM COLOSSUS is growing more and more into its own sound and identity with every new release.

Tracklisting:

1. The Whisperer
2. Flesh of the Fallen Star
3. Unhallowed Blasphemies
4. Forever Caught, Forever Lost

All music was written, recorded and produced by Magnus Berglind. 

Logo by Misanthropic Illustrations. 

Album cover art made by Diko Nursyahra (@dikonursyahra.art)

Photos by Magnus Berglind. 

Lyric video by @dead__man on Fiverr.

Links

Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

Thanks to the The Metallist PR for the details.

Dead Sacraments - The Pale Temple And Others (Album Review)

Release Date: September 27th 2024. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: CD/DD

The Pale Temple And Others - Track Listing:

1.The Pale Temple 

2.The Mountainside 

3.The Weeping Court

4.The Starless Sea

Line-up:

Brendan - Vocals/Guitar

Mark - Vocals/Guitar

Nader - Bass

Ryan - Drums/Lyrics

Review

It feels just like yesterday when I reviewed Progressive Doom/Stoner Metallers Dead Sacraments debut album Celestial Throne and not over five years when it was originally released back in May 2019. The record was a deeply haunting experience with the band touching upon moments of real emotional intensity. The band have returned with their new album The Pale Temple And Others which outclasses its predecessor in every single way possible.

The music is very foreboding with its deep rooted Progressive Doom metal style that has a dark LOVECRAFTIAN world the debut album originally created though this time round the music is heavier, tighter and denser with Dead Sacraments offering a heavier Post-Metal style to the album which had echoes of YOB and PALLBEARER along the way.

The vocals are very operatic in places with a true DOOM METAL feeling that almost pushes into the area of Funeral Doom. There’s some vocal chanting along the way which propels the story quite naturally to the record’s next stage of musical evolution. The album is quite expansive and forward thinking with all the tracks running near or past eleven minutes in length.

The Pale Temple sets up the scene with outlandish vocals, soaring instrumental sounds which offer a fine balance of down-tuned aggression and MELODIC DOOM which brings an atmospheric style of musical harmony on the later stages of the track. The song offers moments of AHAB aquatic based DOOM and HEAVY METAL with distorted sounds becoming quite Drone focused before the song closes out naturally.

Second track The Mountainside continues with that heavy and slightly FUZZ driven apocalyptic sound which allows the sludgier attitude to form. The music always moves at a confident slow-to-mid pace which matches the subtleties of Brendan’s and Mark’s vocals which are both vying for complete dominance that is quite a glorious experience to hear. 

The later stages of the album offers a subtle switch to Droned Out Doom where the music is spliced with aquatic sounds and amplifier reverb that becomes way heavier and slightly freakier with grizzled down-tuned guitars and soaring rhythm section that creates an intense Ambient energy especially within the third track The Weeping Court which is the standout track on record. The music changes into a classic style of Progressive Metal with echoes of Mastodon and Neurosis overlapping with each other that offers the best instrumental sounds of the whole album.

The final track The Starless Sea ends the album by exploring a more dominant and aggressive faster style of music with Dead Sacraments expertly tying up every loose end up of the whole story which still offers moments of real human emotion coming through the lyrics and sublime vocals yet again. 

The Pale Temple And Others is one of the best LOVECRAFTIAN inspired albums I’ve heard in recent years and this allows Dead Sacraments to release a stunning and intense emotionally charged journey of Progressive Doom/Stoner Metal that is miles ahead of the competition.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to Dead Sacraments for the promo.

The Pale Temple And Others will be available to buy on CD/DD Friday 20th September 2024.

Links

Facebook | BandCamp

Introduce Yourselves: Plague Of Carcosa

What is the name of your band?

Plague of Carcosa 

What is the genre of music that you play? 

instrumental Cthulhu doomnoise 

Can you give a brief history of the band of how it came together and where it is today? 

Plague was started by guitarist Eric Zann in his bedroom. The first EP was recorded on his laptop, and the followup was done live in a practice space in 1 take with just 2 microphones. From there, he found a full band for the more Bongripper style releases Hastur, Rats In The Walls, and Ocean Is More Ancient than the Mountains. After the other band members had to move away for their own personal reasons, Eric started working with Alexander Adams just before the pandemic. 

Their newer material sees them drawing influence from the Sunn/Boris collab - longer, more free-formed songs incorporating elements of drone and electronics. 

What can people expect from your music? 

It really depends on the release, but overall, we’d say: dark atmospheres, dense guitar tones, feedback, overdriven Matamps and aluminum guitars, and themes of HP Lovecraft. 

What is the best release that folks should check out from your band? 

It depends on what you like - Ocean Is More Ancient Than The Mountains is our most streamed, so I tend to point people to that one as an introduction. 

Where can people find you on Social Media?

Just Facebook and Instagram. We do not really play the social media game by choice.