…with five shows left of their North American tour with Entheos, Fallujah and Tracheotomy, Progressive Death Metal heroes The Zenith Passage have let Metal Blade Records uncloak a new single in “Fleshbound Reliquary”. Mixed and mastered by Dave Otero (Cattle Decapitation, Allegaeon, Archspire) it serves as the band‘s first new material since their 2023 critically
Escaping from the Vault Of Horrors for 30 nights, Aborted, Crypta, The Zenith Passage and Organectomy will join forces for a run of shows simply dubbed the “Slashing Europe Tour“. While we witnessed the Belgian Death Metal headliners at the 10th Anniversary of Tech-Fest last summer, 2019 was the last time they did a full
Saving something special for album release day purveyors of Progressive Technical Death Metal The Zenith Passage have shared a music video for the title track “Datalysium” directed by Vince Edwards. A highly anticipated affair from a group of highly thought of musicians known for their work in bands like The Faceless, it’s one of the
While we wait until 21st July for the arrival of “Datalysium” to be distributed by Metal Blade Records, an interview with The Zenith Passage mastermind and multi instrumentalist Justin McKinney with Heavy New York is what we have to bridge the gap. Topics of conversation range from the new album to AI, the sweeping line
Technical Death Metal masters The Zenith Passage have set 21st July for their next album “Datalysium” to be distributed by Metal Blade Records. Recorded between guitarist Justin McKinney’s home studio and vocalist Derek Rydquist’s apartment, with some vocals tracked at Flatline Audio with Dave Otero (Cattle Decapitation, Wake), who also mixed the album. McKinney handled the
“Datalysium” will be the name on everyone’s lips on 21st July when Metal Blade Records distribute the sophomore album from The Zenith Passage. Hailing from Los Angeles California the Progressive Technical Death Metal quartet who feature in their ranks former members of The Faceless, Cynic and Fallujah look like they will be celebrating their 11th
The man, the myth the legend that is Shadow Of Intent guitarist Chris Wiseman has made himself the subject of the a playthrough video filmed by Chris Klumpp, the song of choice being “Reconquest” which appears just in time for us to be able to remind you about the bands four or five time rescheduled
In what has to be the best advert for Kiesel Guitars, Justin McKinney plays the Ultra-V 6 string model while Chris Beattie plays the Aries 7 string variety as the duo perform “Synaptic Depravation” from their band The Zenith Passage. As luck would have it the Technical Death Metal stalwarts also have a tab book that will
After their last audio confession in “Algorithmic Salvation” in August 2021 you could be forgiven for thinking that we’d have heard more from Los Angeles Californian’s The Zenith Passage with a new line up eager to impress alongside former members of The Faceless, Cynic and Fallujah but alas that has not been the case, until now.
Following the return of The Zenith Passage with two line up changes and a blistering new single in “Algorithmic Salvation“, guitarist Justin McKinney goes full Quad Coretex with a Neural DSP playthrough of “Deus Deceptor“. If you missed it, those line up changes see the band rejoined by vocalist Derek Rydquist (John Frum, ex-The Faceless)
