NEWS: Piah Mater hide on the fringes?

Mastered by Tony Lindgren (Leprous, Amorphis, Enslaved) and featuring a guest appearance from Norwegian extraordinaire Jørgen Munkeby (Shinning, Ihsahn), Rio De Janeiro Brazil based Blackened Progressive Death Metal act Piah Mater are preparing to unveil “Under the Shadow of a Foreign Sun” on 5th July via Code666. Delicate and soulful the outfit have shared “In Fringes” which explores the depth of melancholy and despair. Pre-orders are available over at bandcamp.

The artwork for the record was drawn by Romanian artist Rada Niță Josan. Singer and guitarist Luiz Felipe Netto comments on the choice: “In an age where AI-generated images seem to be taking up more and more space within the metal community, we felt it was important for the art fronting this record to be unmistakably and unapologetically human. Rada’s tracing has so much personality to it, and it’s so easily recognizable as hers that I knew we had to work together the moment I found her.”

Thematically, the album weaves its thread through the six songs with a lyrical center that revolves around feelings of inadequacy and strangeness towards one’s own homeland, and the inevitable ambition to escape that place. Netto remarks: “Be it due to climate disasters or a plain cultural shift, be it the exodus of a people, the asylum of a family, or the lonely journey of a single individual, these migration patterns were observed and condensed into these lyrics.”