GLACIAL TOMB (KHEMMIS) Returns With First Album In Six Years & New Single

Glacial Tomb – the band that includes Khemmis frontman Ben Hutcherson and bassist David Small alongside Cult Of The Misplaced Trigger drummer Michael Salazar – has returned with a brand new single “Abyssal Host” and the announcement of their first document in six years, Lightless Expanse due out September 20. Pre-orders are available here.

Talking on the album announcement, Hutcherson feedback: “Three and a half years. From the day that Dave shared the riffs that ultimately turned ‘Worldsflesh’ to the night we accepted the ultimate mixes of Lightless Expanse with Arthur Rizik final fall, three and a half years handed. In that point, our connection to–and appreciation of–this music grew stronger because the world round us continued to break down.

“Regardless of the inescapable reminders of our proximity to the apocalypse, we additionally skilled moments of absolute pleasure in these years. These moments of sunshine proved to be simply as important to creating this document as the sentiments of dread and anger, although the affect of the latter is actually extra rapid.

“I started writing the lyrics with out a clear sense of the lyrical coronary heart of those songs; I solely knew that I needed to mirror on the character of struggling–the struggling assured to every of us from the second we draw our first breath. Because the music turned extra complicated and because the myriad feelings we sought to invoke turned extra visceral, I pushed myself to jot down a narrative–or, to be extra exact, a narrative of and about tales–that was not merely a lamentation of the horrors of consciousness.

“I needed the lyrics to mirror the journey that the three of us have been on, each individually and collectively, as we’ve grown to raised perceive the form of this world and our place(s) in it. I needed to see the world by the eyes of somebody or one thing that may see this planet for what it’s. I knew that it wouldn’t be sufficient to simply be bitter concerning the ache of existence; I wanted to articulate simply how futile humanity’s aspirations for salvation actually are and, hopefully, to search out some kind of serenity in that understanding.”

Of “Abyssal Host”, Hutcherson provides: “‘Abyssal Host’ is a d-beat rager about cosmic forces past humankind’s comprehension. One of many central themes of the document is that we, as a species, are frequently undone by our hubris but we appear unwilling and/or unable to acknowledge the futility of management in all its varieties. There may be serenity in give up, but our species seemingly can not assist however fetishize martyrdom. What would occur if an individual who doesn’t need any a part of this world turned host to one thing so grand, so divine, that they turned an unwitting martyr?”