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Today, Canadian melodic black metal trio Crystal Coffin announced 31 October as the release date for its third full-length, The Curse Of Immortality, which will get out via A Beast in the Field on digipack CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats.
Crystal Coffin was formed in 2016 by Aron Shute (vocals, bass guitar), Lenkyn Ostapovich (guitars, synths, piano, scapes, secondary vocals), and Rob Poirier (drums). Comprised of members from previous Vancouver acts Destroy All, Koma, and Caskets, their music references their love for the 1970s/80s Italian horror cinema, sci-fi storytelling, and philosophies. Crystal Coffin combines black metal styles with influences of prog and ambient/electronic music while re-imagining 20th and 21st-century atrocities as poetry and melody.
Combining a love for vintage horror, folk, history, storytelling, and other esoteric influences, Crystal Coffin released its debut album, The Transformation Room, in March 2020 to favourable reviews. The album presented scenes of the Holodomor famine that tore families and villages apart in Soviet-era Ukraine during the early 1930s and contained lyrics and music that were washed in pathos, both brutal and beautiful. The band's second full-length, The Starway Eternal, released in October 2021, embraced a sci-fi concept utilizing the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Pripyat, Ukraine, as a backdrop for fantastical storytelling. The Starway Eternal garnered Crystal Coffin even more attention, setting expectations for its third album considerably higher.
The Curse Of Immortality leverages similar storytelling themes but looks forward to a future where the limitations on existence are no more, for better or worse. Less a formal concept album from its predecessor, the eight tracks loosely depict a protagonist whose failed attempts at suicide have placed him in a rehabilitation centre wherein clandestine medical personnel experiment on the captured and unconscious patients at night in chambers below. Through evil rites and state control, the subject involuntarily becomes the first completed case for verified immortality - a life that will no longer require death. The music and the lyrics found throughout are darker, heavier, and faster than anything Crystal Coffin has released and stand as the sonic culmination of the band's efforts and intentions over the past six years.
As always, form and content go hand in hand for the band, and the characteristically detailed cover artwork (once again by Ostapovich) and the "classified document" - style inner sleeve vividly complete the totality of The Curse Of Immortality - Crystal Coffin's boldest and most complete work to date. Stay tuned for the first track - coming soon! Link
The Curse Of Immortality tracklist:
1. Shadows Never Cast
2. The Undead
3. The Vortex of Earth and Death
4. Final Breaths
5. Cryogenesis
6. Rise
7. Leviathans Encased
8. The Closing of the Crystal Coffin
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