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The USA based Luminous Vault prepares to release its debut full-length, Animate The Emptiness, on 20 May through Profound Lore Records on LP, CD, and digitally. Animate The Emptiness is a bold and unique hybrid of black/death metal and electronic music. Today, the group offers its latest single from the record, "Ancient North", available in the player below.
From its inception in 2015, Luminous Vault guitarist/vocalist Mario Diaz de Leon (Oneirogen, Bloodmist) and bassist/vocalist Samuel Smith (Artificial Brain, Aeviterne) have combined the "machine rhythm" approach of pioneering bands Godflesh and Blut Aus Nord with black metal and synthesizers. On their long-awaited follow-up to 2017's Charismata EP, Animate The Emptiness, this vibrant fusion is expressed with an intensity surpassing that of the band's past efforts. Tracks such as "Incarnate Flame Arise" are pervaded by the slow, speaker-rattling thud of an electronic kick drum, punctuated by Smith's distorted bassline and synthetic hi-hat patterns, while Diaz de Leon's guitar intones haunting tremolo-picked melodies and feedback-laden squalls.
On the closing track, "Ancient North", melancholic doom metal harmonies sustain over syncopated bass and drum rhythms, giving way to a euphoric surge of major key tremolo riffs. Diaz de Leon and Smith's vocal lines alternately evoke apocalyptic sermons and a call from otherworldly depths, with surrealistic lyrics that draw inspiration from psychospiritual trials and transformations, full of alchemical imagery.
Animate The Emptiness was recorded by Luminous Vault in NYC between 2019 and early 2020, mixed by MDdL, mastered by Josh Bonati, and completed with artwork by Fivetimesno. Link
Animate The Emptiness tracklist:
1. Invoke Radiant Gleam
2. Incarnate Flame Arise
3. Divine Transduction
4. Regeneration
5. Earth Daemon
6. Embryonic
7. Ancient North
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