Avant-Garde Death Metal band Abhorrent Expanse has shared a new single and music video – “Frost Suffocation!” The band is formed by members of Zebulon Pike, Celestiial, Obsequiae, and more. The band’s debut album, Gateways To Resplendence, is nearing release in early April. Check out “Frost Suffocation” now!
Vocalist/guitarist Luke Polipnick reveals, “‘Frost Suffocation’ is a series of sharply contrasting timed duos, a design inspired by John Zorn’s Naked City. It juxtaposes lumbering doom passages with Ornette Coleman’s Harmolodic concepts, furious death metal blasts, haunting ambience, and plaintive string interludes. It was executed live in the studio in a single continuous take by the band by assigning each solo or duo subset a time duration and collectively following a stopwatch. All of the actual musical content was fully improvised. No specifics were discussed beyond the pairings of players and the duration of each segment. The video was masterfully assembled, edited, and artfully degraded by Minneapolis guitar icon Jeremy Ylvisaker.”
Adds bassist Brian Courage, “‘Frost Suffocation’ is a telling microcosm of the breadth of sounds and textures that we explored over the course of the record. The contradictions of controlled chaos and unsettled peace are ever present.”
The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Adam Tucker (Blue Ox, Wanderer, Sunless, Void Omnia), and completed with cover artwork by David Jorquera and design by Bill Harris.
Abhorrent Expanse:
4/05/2022 Icehouse – Minneapolis, MN w/ Sunless
4/06/2022 X-Ray Arcade – Milwaukee, WI w/ Sunless
4/07/2022 Cobra Lounge – Chicago, IL w/ Sunless
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