The ongoing revival of “old school death metal”, which in fact is the refurbishing of many schools, continues apace with the impending release of the second album by the Spanish band Intolerance.
Intolerance are a Zaragoza-based group who have already proven their ability to breath new life into the hideous old genre, building their own throne of putrefying skulls with a 2016 demo, a 2020 EP, their first album Dark Paths of Humanity (2022), and now a new full-length monstrosity aptly named Waking Nightmares of an Endless Void which will be co-released on July 22nd by Memento Mori and Godz Ov War Productions.
For more concrete reference points, the PR materials for the album refer to a solid foundation influenced by early Bolt Thrower, Grave, Asphyx, Morgoth, Entombed, Convulse, Obituary, and Unleashed, but now embellished with “ever-darker hues and an almost-evil melodicism” that “puts them closer to the likes of classic Unanimated, Dismember, Hypocrisy, Desultory, and earliest Necrophobic“.
But as concrete reference points go, nothing beats the music itself, and we have some of that for you today as we premiere the new album’s fourth track, “Rite of Passage“.
Oh hell yes, the sizzling and swarming riffage in this song is evil to the core, grim and grisly, heartless and cruel — but you won’t have to wait long before an early guitar solo spirals out from the foul gruesomeness, screaming and wailing and swirling into the stratosphere like the jubilation of undead spirits freed from their cursed graves.
The ravenous gutturals, ugly grunts, crazed snarls, and berserk screams that eject the words magnify the music’s monstrosity, while the changing drum patterns and throbbing bass-lines give the song a sequence of feral, head-moving grooves.
Like that opening solo, the lead guitar also spins up a feverishly swirling arpeggio that seems fraught with despair, soon joined by another fire-bright solo that propels the song to a zenith of electrifying delirium.
Oh but things get grim and cruel again, though there’s also no relent in the feelings of madness, which ignite again to provide a thriller of a finale.
And so the song proves to be a great combination of foulness, brutalization, and evocative melody, supernatural in its sensations but also a channel of derangement and agony.
Waking Nightmares of an Endless Void features truly macabre cover art by Juan Alberto Hernandez, and skull artwork by Narcis (Demonomania). The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by the masterful Javier Félez at Moontower Studios.
Memento Mori will release the CD version while Godz Ov War will release the vinyl and tape editions. For more info, check the links below — and also listen to the first single from the new album, “Fade Into Oblivion“.
PRE-ORDER AND MORE INFO:
CD: Memento Mori
http://memento-mori.es
https://www.facebook.com/memento.mori.label
LP/TAPE: Godz ov War Productions
https://godzovwar.com
https://godzovwarproductions.bandcamp.com/album/waking-nightmares-of-an-endless-void
https://www.facebook.com/godzovwar
INTOLERANCE:
https://intolerancedeathmetal.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/intolerancedeathmetal
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550298737789
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