Hailing from Canada, blackened death/doom practitioners WITHERER unveil their debut full-length album, “Shadow Without A Horizon”, out today via Hypaethral Records.
Weaving together black/death intensity and vast funeral doom ritualism, WITHERER crafts soundscapes both punishing and dreamlike, claustrophobic and immense, ruthless and meditative. Veterans of the black and death metal genres, these pseudonymous musicians shed the skin of previous identities to completely submerge themselves within this project’s depressive gloom. On Shadow Without A Horizon, the vile depths and dragging slowness of funeral doom are punctuated by throttling chaos; churning violence gives way to airy, spectral passages, and mournful ambience is sliced through with feverish convulsions in a truly distinctive approach to blackened death/doom.
WITHERER’s Shadow Without A Horizon features artwork, layout, and photo editing by Danille Gauvin and includes guest voice and guitar by T. G. on “Praises” and additional vocals by M. Adem on “Devourer Of All Graveyards” and “Solar Collapse Mandala.”
The record was recorded by Roland Rodas at Cavern Of Echoes Studios and Matt Hems at Seventh Level Sound except “The Wailing Hours (Plummeting Under The Tunnels)” which was recorded and produced by Cameron O’Neill. M. Adem’s vocals were engineered and produced by Raphael Weinroth-Browne. Mixing and mastering was handled by Rodas (also at Cavern Of Echoes Studios).
Shadow Without A Horizon will be released on CD (ltd. 300) and digital formats as well as 2xLP (100 on Subterranean Blue vinyl and 200 on Black vinyl). Find physical orders here : https://bit.ly/3TDcMWh.
Following an unreleased demo and the 2019 single “Milk Sea (Bathing In Its Waves),” WITHERER entered a multi-year phase of songwriting for its first full-length album, Shadow Without A Horizon. This produced a greater compositional focus on doom metal, leading to a reformulation of the band’s earlier atmospheric black metal sound into the blackened death/doom monstrosity it has emerged as today. The band also transformed from a one-man project into a three piece, as founding musician and lead songwriter/lyricist Tiamoath was joined by guitarist Øhrracle and drummer Hex Visceræ.
Shadow Without A Horizon slices through genre conventions and plummets into the furthest subterranean corners of the earth’s bloodless veins. Different confrontations with mortality amongst all three members during the writing and recording process of the record created an alchemical intensity to the performances. “I had already described the album as an hour-long memento mori,” Tiamoath explains. “The fact that health issues and brushes with death occurred during the process of creating this release was certainly difficult, but it was conducive to the theme of Shadow Without A Horizon. I think it’s a recording that will stick with us all because of that and was profoundly cathartic as a result.”
Tracklist:
1.Fiat Umbra (Burial Beneath the Stalactites)
2.Devourer of All Graveyards
3.The Wailing Hours (Plummeting Under the Tunnels)
4.Solar Collapse Mandala
5.Praises (Gliding Through the Lightless Sea)
Listen below on YouTube:
… and later today, on BandCamp.
WITHERER:
Tiamoath – vocals, guitars, bass, songwriting, keyboards, bells
Øhrracle – vocals, guitars
Hex Visceræ – drums
Follow the band:
https://www.instagram.com/withererdeath
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61570087235639
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