Watch ABHORRENT EXPANSE’s “Arcturian Nano Diamonds From The Tranquil Abyss” HERE.
In just over one week, Minneapolis/Chicago-based avant/improvisational death metal quartet ABHORRENT EXPANSE will release their debut album, Gateways To Resplendence.
Today, the band presents a massive video for the record’s “Arcturian
Nano Diamonds From The Tranquil Abyss,” hosted exclusively by Invisible
Oranges.
While the members of ABHORRENT EXPANSE
hold rank in notable bands including Zebulon Pike, Celestiial,
Obsequiae, and more, the output of this act is created in a much more spontaneous, improvisational manner. The ten movements on their first album Gateways To Resplendence were
improvised live at Signaturetone Recording in Minneapolis on October
8th, 2020, the album recorded, mixed, and mastered by Adam Tucker (Blue
Ox, Wanderer, Sunless, Void Omnia). The record was completed with cover
artwork by David Jorquera and design by Bill Harris.
The
video for the mammoth fifteen-minute-long “Arcturian Nano Diamonds From
The Tranquil Abyss” was filmed in real time with the band’s
improvisational performance of the song. Vocalist/guitarist Luke
Polipnick reveals, "This is one of the last things we recorded at the
session. It represents an attempt to create a swirling, monolithic sound
mass and a sense of time being suspended. Brian and Erik are playing
these huge drones for much of it, while Tim and I explore some of the
most overtly ‘free jazz’ territory of the record. We reach a final
blasting plateau before it recedes into scraping acoustic noise and
nothingness."
Invisible
Oranges writes in part of the movement, “The track feels less like a
song built around a specific structure, and more of a performance
designed to capture the sensation of intense, escalating pressure in a
void like the name seems to suggest. The grinding, abrasive blast beats
near the end firmly remind listeners of the band's ties to extreme metal
(featuring members of Zebulon Pike, Celestiial, and Obsequiae) and
exemplify the album's inherent suspense. Especially due to its unplanned
nature, even the quietest moment on Gateways To Resplendence
can potentially turn into a crushing outburst without warning: so, even
the most non-metal moments play into a choking, intense approach to
death metal that tightens its grip further the weirder it gets.”
Immerse
yourself in ABHORRENT EXPANSE’s engulfing “Arcturian Nano Diamonds From
The Tranquil Abyss” video first through Invisible Oranges at THIS LOCATION.
Gateways To Resplendence will
see release on CD and digitally through Amalgam Music and a limited run
of 50 tapes via Lurker Bias on April 8th. Find CD/digital preorders HERE and cassette/digital preorders HERE and watch the previously released “Frost Suffocation” video HERE.
ABHORRENT EXPANSE will
embark on a trio of headlining release shows across the Midwest in
conjunction with the record’s street date. The band will invade
Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Chicago on April 5th through 7th, and will
see them supported by their friends in tech death metal act Sunless
alongside others. Additional live dates and more widespread touring is
to be expected later in the year.
ABHORRENT EXPANSE Tour Dates:
4/05/2022 Icehouse – Minneapolis, MN w/ Sunless, Herske [info]
4/06/2022 X-Ray Arcade – Milwaukee, WI w/ Sunless, Zipper, Deorbit, Devin Drobka [info]
4/07/2022 Cobra Lounge – Chicago, IL w/ Sunless, Bruce Lamont [info]
Abstract, ecstatic, and pummeling, ABHORRENT EXPANSE’s Gateways To Resplendence
articulates the unspeakable dread which dwells in the sepulchral
caverns of the mind. A grotesquely improvised manifesto plumbing from
the depths of blackened death, funeral doom, noise, and free jazz, it
defies the listener to decipher its riddles and confront its paradoxes.
The ensemble builds on the deep history of collaboration between its
four members to present a new way forward. Many duo and trio gigs helped
them develop a new musical lexicon uniting the raw sonic intensity of
extreme metal with the wide spectrum of textures common to free
improvisation. By the time Erik Fratzke (Zebulon Pike, Happy Apple) and
Tim Glenn (The Blight, Celestiial, Obsequiae) joined Brian Courage and
Luke Polipnick in the studio, uniting the full quartet for the first
time, the connection was immediate. Adam Tucker at Signaturetone
Recording, a brilliant engineer and musician in his own right, used a
variety of unorthodox techniques to help the band convey their vision.
The resulting album is awash with contradictions, an organic,
multifaceted, and deeply challenging listening experience that will push
fans of both genres to their limits.
Review copies of Gateways To Resplendence are being dispatched at this time. For interviews and coverage of ABHORRENT EXPANSE worldwide contact dave@earsplitcompound.com.
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