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Watch BLIND EQUATION’s “Flashback (Feat. Strawberry Hospital)” video HERE.
Chicago’s BLIND EQUATION returns in 2025 with A Funeral In Purgatory, perhaps their most ambitious release to date. The band’s third LP is scheduled for release on July 18th on Prosthetic Records.
A Funeral In Purgatory sees the band exploring new territory by adding more gothic metal and death/doom elements to their boundless and ever-growing cybergrind sound. The band’s key songwriter, James McHenry, describes the new record as “the heaviest and most brutal BLIND EQUATION album to date, while simultaneously being the most soft and heartfelt, which perfectly encapsulates the emotions felt throughout the LP. It’s intense, it’s obnoxious, but there is a whole load of feeling interwoven into the DNA of this electronic colossus.”
In advance of the record’s release, today BLIND EQUATION unveils a video for “Flashback” featuring MySpace-era trancecore artist Strawberry Hospital.
Comments McHenry, “Lyrically this song touches on wanting to relive the peak moments of your life, knowing that you may never feel that way again and the pain that I experience from that. BLIND EQUATION has always been an outlet for me to express difficult emotions and I am very happy to share them on a song that I am very proud of.”
Watch BLIND EQUATION’s“Flashback (Feat. Strawberry Hospital)” video HERE.
Watch the band’s previously released video for first single, “Nothing,” HERE.
Despite A Funeral In Purgatory covering a lot of life’s negative aspects, it is actually overtly positive in message. McHenry described having many low points during the writing of the record, and that the creative process served as some sort of healing process. This is something the band hopes the listener will also experience when listening to the album. “The overarching meaning of the album is that even though we deal with these difficult times in our life, we have to carry on and get through them to reach the better moments. No matter what, life will destroy us time and time again and many things may never be resolved or have an answer in sight, but we must carry on and do our best to fight against it.”
In addition to Strawberry Hospital, the record includes guest appearances from experimental rap artist Johnnascus, both of whom help to expand the sprawling musical landscape. “Having them both on the album is truly surreal to me. They are artists who I feel are creating music that no one else is making and it is a great honor to have them on here.
“This is the most aggressive and most violently passionate the project has ever been,” he continues, “yet it is the most atmospheric and still shimmers melodically when it needs to. And I feel that is mostly what you can expect from the upcoming album; the heavy moments are heavier and the soft moments are even more vulnerable as well. With the project being 90% digital, I wanted the instrumentals to still be as emotional as the lyrics and vocals and I feel they compliment each other the best they ever have for this record.”
BLIND EQUATION’s A Funeral In Purgatory will be released on CD, LP, and digital formats. Fine preorders at: https://lnk.to/BlindEquation.
A Funeral In Purgatory Track Listing:
1. This Eternal Curse
2. Nothing
3. It Feels Like The End (Feat. Johnnascus)
4. A Funeral…
5. +‧+ ̊ ཐི⋆✟⋆ཋྀ ̊+‧+
6. …In Purgatory
7. Flashback (Feat Strawberry Hospital)
8. Mourn
9. Relinquished Dreams
10. Still
11. Incomplete
BLIND EQUATION Live:
6/27/2025 Pugfest III – Ferndale, MI w/ Modern Color, Greyhaven
7/01/2025 Subterranean – Chicago, IL w/ awakebutstillinbed, For Your Health
w/ Stomach Book, I H8 It Here:
7/10/2025 New World – Minneapolis, MN
7/11/2025 Gabe’s – Iowa City, IA
7/12/2025 X-Ray – Milwaukee, WI
7/13/2025 Healer – Indianapolis, IN
7/14/2025 Skeletones – Grand Rapids, MI
End tour
7/27/2025 Burlington Bar – Chicago, IL w/ Kill Alters, CPU Buddha
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