NEWS: Phobocosm get bound and gagged?

Continuing their collaboration with artist Lauri Laaksonen (Desolate Shrine, Convocation, Pestilent Hex) and producer Xavier Berthiaume (Gevurah, Sanctvs) who recorded, mixed and mastered, “Gateway” from Montréal Death Metal force Phobocosm will land on 28th November via Dark Descent Records. Following first single  “Sempiternal Penance“, “Unbound” has been unveiled to reinforce the promise of the record.

Guitarist Samuel Dufour comments: “Gateway stands as an unrelenting and eldritch death metal opus that seals one chapter while unveiling the next. The album includes material from every songwriting period of the band, some of it dating back to the Deprived and Bringer of Drought eras, as well as Foreordained, of course. We view it as the closing of a chapter for the band. Not that our future material will be completely different fr­om our existing material, far from it, but we have decided to do things a little differently next time around by adding new elements that haven’t appeared in our music before, exploring different dynamics and experimenting with a new tuning.”

“The song ‘Revival’ from Foreordained inspired the album’s theme, which is the fact that humans have been trying to live forever – or to unnaturally prolong life – since the dawn of time, often for reasons even more absurd than the pursuit of eternal life itself. We used this as the main theme and pushed the concept further, exploring the most repulsive forms of cruelty humans are capable of — even when using science as a means to prolong barbarity against their enemies. From looking at it, one can see that it is a gateway to something ominous, but what lies beyond is up to the listener.”