It Echoes In The Wild, the bizarre and unhinged second album by Vancouver-based black/death metal entity EGREGORE, will be released this Friday through the formidable roster of 20 Buck Spin, who today unveils the entire album for advance streaming.
Here we find ourselves, among the Canadian miscreants EGREGORE – uniting members of Mitochondrion, Reversed, Ruinous Power, formerly of Auroch, and more – whereupon they return from whence the wind howls like a damned choir and the Earth knows no master, to chart a broader sonic wilderness via It Echoes In The Wild. And much as sea-rogues and freebooters sought fortune upon blackened waters, so too does Egregore venture musically into diabolic and ungoverned lands.
Presenting something more expansive, elemental, and untamed on It Echoes In The Wild, the early occult black death metal lunacy of EGREGORE embraces atmospheric breadth equally alongside primitive force to delve deep into not only geographic wilds, but the psychological, esoteric and spiritual hinterlands at the edges of complete madness. Dark invocations and secret tongues draw forth echoes from forest and fen, cave and cliff, tempting the temporally tethered to receive the curse, all the while driven by a primal, unknowable sardonic menace.
Though the voyage be perilous, to succumb to It Echoes In The Wild is to become ensconced in a lawless dominion of the soul in service of a higher call. Mirroring nature’s unbridled forces and the hidden echoes that dwell within, EGREGORE’s second album takes the band’s mystical insanity and magickal perversion to the edge of the abyss and plunges forward.
It Echoes In The Wild was engineered and recorded by Mariessa McLeod, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Blood Incantation, Dream Unending, Tomb Mold), and completed with cover art by Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos, illustration and layout by Dipayan Das, and logo by Karmazid. The result is an album prime for fans of Nocturnus, Morbid Angel, King Diamond, Samael, Superstition, Angelcorpse, Mortuary Drape, Necrophobic, Absu, and The Chasm.
From the EGREGORE cult: “There is no sight apart from the seen; no feeling beyond the felt; no independent capacity for knowledge outside of what is known.
“Self: a confluence of cause and condition. Consciousness: a triangulation of pre-requisite factors.
“When this is understood, there is no longer any boundary as to where you end and the infinite begins. Everything is connected. This is the word of the law, and it echoes in the wild.”
Sustain the malefic howl of EGREGORE’s It Echoes In The Wild early on YouTube RIGHT HERE, and view the videos for “Stair Into The Vortex” HERE and “Servants Of The Second Death” HERE.
20 Buck Spin will release It Echoes In The Wild on LP, CD, and digital platforms this Friday, March 20th. Preorders can be placed at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
Furthermore, effective immediately, EGREGORE is pleased to announce a partnership with Waste Management Bookings for all live engagements. Stand by for updates.
“…EGREGORE‘s early occult black/death metal lunacy now mutates into something more expansive, elemental and untamed.” – Metal Injection
“…an unhinged, occult death metal journey. The guitar riffs cascade in a relentless procession, never sitting still, while the frenetic drumming underscores the tapestry with anxiety. This isn’t your dad’s meat and potatoes death metal–it’s something far wilder and more unknowable.” – Invisible Oranges
“EGREGORE‘s work here is compellingly thrashed-at, blackened and rooted in some manner of ancient death’s soul transposed yet they’ve not intended to too clearly define the collective self… you end up summing their presence it yet bears some compelling riffcraft, many brilliantly wilding tangents, and (again) an altogether entertaining whorl of occult energies beyond the norm. A high recommendation.” – Mystification Zine
“Chaotic yes, but It Echoes In The Wild remains a consistent and refreshing experience throughout. It challenges the listener without any air of pretentiousness, while transforming styles that in their original forms may have been a bit sloppy into something dense and almost progressive. Eschewing current extreme metal trends that may hone in on dissonance or wildly ‘out-there’ influences, it draws from the foundational sacred texts without sounding like a clone of any band that has come before. Some of the best metal of the present requires delving deep into the past, and EGREGORE do this in exactly the right way.” – Nine Circles
EGREGORE:
Shawn Haché aka Essentia Collapse – drums, vocals, acoustic guitars
Sebastian Montesi aka Catastrophe Saturna – lead guitars, acoustic guitars, vocals, synth
Phil Fiess aka Helios Thread – bass, vocals
Album guests:
Dylan Atkinson aka Exodus To Unukalhai – additional lead guitar
Cuillen aka Axis i Arcana – vocals
Lillian Liu aka Jaded Castigator of the Baleful Communion – lead synth
Brayden Turenne aka Oracular Phantasm – electronics, ambient interludes
Mashruk Huq aka Voice of the Dweller – spoken word on “Corsairs Of The Daath Gulf”
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