Sumptus Ignis – The Kindred Dark released 9/2/22.
- Macrocosmic View (6:35)
- MRK (6:43)
- The Void Within (Unliving Part 1) (2:03)
- The Feast of Rejoining (Unliving Part 2) (3:50)
- The Unliving (Unliving Part 3) (5:36)
- As Is (5:39)
The Kindred Dark was written and recorded between 2019 and 2021, with mixing and mastering through 2022. I consider it a taste of things to come, a mini-album to bridge the band’s evolution from trio to five-piece. New member John Scott (Camel Tofu) had some cool approaches to clean vocals and graced us with a touch or two of slide guitar. Former Identity Collapse and current Silura member Richard Perdomo made the jump from production to bass guitar, giving us a low-end overhaul. Fellow Silurian Joshua Thomas Williams joined the band as well, after a few nameless rituals were performed to appease a certain Goblin King.
Inspired by the crime fiction and cosmic horror of author Laird Barron, “Macrocosmic View” takes the listener on a journey through the black kaleidoscope to parts unknown.
“MRK” is a cautionary tale of artificial intelligence and pessimistic philosophy. I wanted it to be Bowie’s Saviour Machine meets Zapfe’s The Last Messiah with a touch of inspiration from Charle Soule and Greg Scott’s Strange Attractors as to how a pessimistic monster with enough patience could set up some life-ending dominos.
Three-part epic “Unliving” was nearly an EP on its own, with the eerie intro “The Void Within”, atmospheric instrumental “The Feast of Rejoining”, and death-metal infused closer “The Unliving” documenting the transformative nature of the crypt-to-table dining experience. Partially inspired by a particularly gnarly Call of Cthulhu campaign run by our previous singer Jessy Sparks.
Finishing out the collection is a new version of our Lovecraft Mythos worship song “As Is” from the debut EP, featuring a new section of blasphemous leads and solos from Joshua Williams (Silura).
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Press: Heavy Music HQ review. Vampster feature (in German).