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Tempe, Arizona (USA) based deathgaze outfit Kardashev will release their stunning sophomore full-length, Liminal Rite, on the 10th of June via Metal Blade Records, today unveiling the record’s first single “Compost Grave-Song”. Forged in 2012, Kardashev’s mission statement could best be described as, “attempting to create the most beautiful, heavy music through themes of love, loss, and altruism in the metal spectrum.”
Kardashev unveils a vocal playthrough for the album’s first single, “Compost Grave-Song”. Notes Mirolla of the track: “‘Compost Grave-Song’ illuminates the point of no return in The Lost Man's descent into regret, anger, and madness. He is lucid. He is awake. The Lost Man finds himself standing in the spot where his father knelt so many years ago. Guilt masked by anger grabs him by the chest and he curses the earth beneath him. The death of his brother rises to the surface of his mind as a cloud of locusts swarms a field, ripping and tearing until all hunger is satiated. He clutches a stone and sees the ghostly effigy of his father’s hand doing the same. Images of the tragedy that took his brother away flood The Lost Man, and he remembers the fury of his father as the truth was laid bare. But… what was it, that grave mistake that manifested by his own actions? The memory is too far in the ground, buried under broken glass and isolation. But this time will be different. This time he will not be cast aside. He is home, and he would rather die than suffer the loss of his past for a second time.”
With drums tracked in Lang’s home studio, Kardashev returned to Endless Gate Audio in Arizona to track guitar, bass, and vocals. They then gathered at The Sound Lair in Tennessee - the first time this lineup has ever been in the same room together - to work with producer/mixer Miah Lajeunesse. The album was mastered by Ryan Williams. The band also brought in Bohren & Der Club Of Gore’s saxophonist Christoph Clöser, which was a life goal checked off for Mirolla, to add an extra flavour to the haunting, epic closer “Beyond The Passage Of Embers”, and Christopher Blaney added some piano parts alongside those of Rieth. The members also pushed themselves into new territory: Garrett recorded his own vocal harmonies rather than relying on a vocoder as on previous releases, Rieth recorded some piano parts, and Lang penned and recorded the spoken word story that haunts the record. The album comes cloaked in the cover art of Faith Veloro. Link
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