NEWS: Graveborn: Psychosis in riffs?

Combining odd time signatures, aggressive tendencies and dissonant ferocity with the ethereal melodicism and riff worship, Boston Progressive Death Metal band Graveborn look set to rip this world apart with their new album  “Metempsychosis“. A concept album about continuity in the face of collapse, it comes five long years after predecessor “Transmigrator” with “Orthologs” the latest advanced listen. You can get your hands on it on 3rd April with pre-orders available over at bandcamp.

Vocalist John Leblanc comments: “‘Orthologs’ is about what survives after annihilation, not as hope, but as function. It’s evolution under pressure. Forced transformation. The essential self persists, but the form changes radically. I don’t return to who I was. I don’t heal into the old shape. I become something else because survival requires it. Like orthologous genes, the structure diverges, but the core purpose remains intact. This isn’t triumphant. It’s real. It’s not a victory lap. It’s the moment after the maw, when something still stands. Not because it’s unbroken, but because it adapted.

This song means: continuity is not comfort. Continuity is persistence. I am changed. I am not whole. But something essential still functions, still moves forward, still exists. Not healed. Not restored. Still here. And that is enough.”