Today, The Machinist released its new album, Contempt For Life, through InViMa Records.

Hailing from the grey, industrial and notoriously rainswept streets of Manchester, England, The Machinist is hell-bent on exposing the gaping, endless emptiness that lies behind the deceptive façade of human existence. Its mechanistic, blackened extreme metal is a ferocious attack on the arrogant conceit that our lives, our pale, flickering flames in the boundless universe, so fragile and ephemeral, have some kind of greater meaning. Yet the band will ride its train, hurtling to the end, with a maniacal laugh and proud freedom, screaming for more speed, spewing its disgust on the passive and the lifeless who waste their precious moments in wilful blindness and contemptible subservience. Contempt For Life is a jackhammer attack on those without the courage for truth, a defiant glare into the eye of annihilation fuelled by solos like liquid flame and riffs hewn from acerbic misanthropy.

Building upon the blackened foundations laid down by The Machinist's excoriating debut album, I Am Void, Contempt For Life opens with the shocking impact of its title track, a bewildering, multi-faceted assault on the senses. The guitars swoop and dive like deranged raptors above the grinding overkill of programmed drums set to kill. Then, within the black cyborg heart of the song, the claustrophobic riff attack draws back to expose a majestic, malignant landscape, towering and terrifying in its alien magnificence. "Cathedrals Fall" follows in the burnt and bloody wake of Contempt For Life, bringing a stunning melodic sensibility to the barrage of gargantuan weaponry. Shades of melancholy rise like the shadows of titans between the walls of steel and a nobility of spirit is glimpsed behind the rabid exhortations of venom and disgust. Our journey through this hellscape of ashes and decimation continues with the bludgeoning, bruising "Brace", the disconcerting pulse of interludes "Gog" and "Magog", the formidable "Demagogue’", a frenzied swarm of spite that climbs to closing moments of transcendence and the nightmare storms of "The Anthropic Mistake", before we are cast up upon the broken shores of "Cracks" - a place of fractured sanity and eyeless tormentors that hasten us towards the final, ultimate end of all. Creative, visionary and scarring, Contempt For Life is breathtakingly powerful yet deceptively expansive, rife with hidden passages and tunnels that lead into ever deeper darknesses. A listening experience of enthralling intensity.

Mixed and mastered for the ultimate in cold, mechanistic force by the renowned George Nerantzis (Abbath, Dark Funeral, Rotting Christ, etc.) and adorned in the merciless, high-impact artwork of Duncan Macpherson (Extinction Of Mankind, Deus Mori). Join The Machinist as it tears through the veils of deception and carries the punishing, confrontational sound of Contempt For Life to the ears of the lost, the outliers and the outcasts of the world. Link