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Absent In Body, a new project featuring current and former members of Amenra, Neurosis, and Sepultura, just announced the terrifying debut album entitled Plague God to be out on the 25th March via Relapse Records. Today they have also shared the music video for the track "The Acres/The Ache". You should give a listen to this devastating industrial doomed out brutal darkness without any limits below.
Plague God is bound by the same ideals of unity and fearlessly uncompromising honesty of expression that have driven their respective bands to imperious heights of reverence and groundbreaking sonic deliverance. Plague God is by turns devastating and sublime, drawn from musicians for whom life and art are inextricably bound.
Mathieu Vandekerckhove comments: "We had not imposed any limitations or boundaries on ourselves to create this music. Everything happened without any compromise, we gathered and let inspiration run freely. It is the beauty and the strength of this album."
Iggor Cavalera comments: "It feels great to collaborate with such forward-thinking minds like Colin, Mathieu, and Scott on Absent In Body. The music is dense and slowly brutal, very similar to the times we are living."
In an era overrun by information, misinformation, unseen algorithms and viral contagion, seeking out what's truly human in the face of overwhelming and unfathomable forces has perhaps become our most sacred of tasks. It's an impulse that lies at the very heart of Plague God, the debut album from Absent In Body - the oppressive, industrial-driven collaboration.
Initially the brainchild of Amenra guitarist Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove, and Neurosis vocalist/guitarist Scott Kelly, Absent In Body was formed in 2017. Immediately recognising their kinship, and with Amenra frontman Colin H. Van Eeckhout brought in on vocals and bass, what emerged is a reflection of the intervening years of turbulence, extending its scope as it navigates across five stretches of unstable terrain. From the opening "Rise From Ruins" with ex-Sepultura drummer, Iggor Cavalera's tribal beat emerging from foreboding, near-subsonic oscillations to explode in a tide of corrosive riffs and feral howls, through "Sarin's" steadfast, procession-through-purgatory groove, to "The Half Rising Man's" matrix of organic/mechanic evolution, it's an album in constant dialogue between the animalistic, the human and the industrial, and hunger to distil a truth, something unpolluted from the fray.
Protest music is often perceived as a petition or a counter-argument against a controlling force. There is another sense of protest, though, that of a machine under stress: articulating the pressures weighing down on it by means of involuntary, primal response. It's these states of critical mass at which we must truly find ourselves, under duress maybe, but unblinded and alive. Plague God doesn't just give voice to these moments of truth, but in the band's deep kinship integral to every claustrophobic judder, every stretch of atmospheric dread and helpless alias assumed, lies freedom we both forget and attain at our peril. Link
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