Copenhagen’s Phrenelith has been among the many best purveyors of loss of life steel in recent times. They, amongst many Danish counterparts, have garnered acclaim and notoriety for his or her fierce and festering types of maximum steel. The band is over three years faraway from their final full-length album, Chimaera–loads of time to flesh out how their third full-length, Ashen Womb, would construct on their efforts whereas sustaining their ethos.
“It was vital to us to not repeat ourselves and as an alternative do one thing markedly totally different from each Desolate Endscape and Chimaera, whereas nonetheless retaining a signature sound that will be acquainted each to our personal notion of the band and to longtime followers…” Simon Daniel (guitars/vocals) says in response to questions from Decibel.
Simon describes the band’s need to “delve again into the uncooked spontaneity and unrestrained immediacy” of their early releases. He additionally cites the “larger emphasis on creating ambiance on Chimaera” as a information to their method when writing Ashen Womb. He states, “Ashen Womb is the fruits of all of the musical traits we now have acquired within the band’s decade-long lifespan–and seemingly show as a perfect center path between the 2 earlier albums.”
The Danish loss of life sellers ship on their latest album. Lead singles “A Husk Wrung Dry” and “Stagnated Blood” are wonderful primers for expectations, however digging deeper into its 40-minute runtime exhibits a band delivering on their objectives. “Nebulae” showcases a triplet rhythm and reflective ambiance round a pummeling swing in a time signature that Simon remembers, “There’s one thing concerning the half that simply seems like taking a chainsaw to the heart, or getting hit by a freight prepare!”
Phrenelith additionally lastly dedicated considered one of their most-played reside tracks to the album on Ashen Womb. “Chrysopoeia,” the album’s penultimate observe, has been a staple of the band’s setlist for nearly eight years. “It was good to lastly report it and form it into its closing kind,” says Daniel.
The album holds many particular moments for him, and he describes how the writing and recording course of differed from earlier years. “We had allowed ourselves extra time than regular, and the recording engineer is a longtime good friend of ours who made certain we had been all the time performing our greatest.”
Different particular moments got here from the sensation of, as Daniel describes, “how good it felt even when the songs had been stripped down and we had been simply rocking out with the aim of capturing the drums,” and “attending to take the time to immerse myself within the recording was in all probability my favorite facet of all of it.”
When requested what he hopes followers and listeners of Ashen Womb take away from the album, Daniel concludes, “Finally, I hope the listener will kind their very own interpretation of the album and its lyrics. I’ve all the time loved listening to individuals’s tackle the totally different components that make up the information. Nevertheless, as pretentious as it’d sound, I actually hope the report will facilitate a profound musical expertise for the listener. I actually tried to kind the report as a steady journey – for lack of higher phrases – so I hope individuals will principally hearken to it in its entirety to correctly take it in. I additionally all the time thought our releases had been stronger as an entire than the sum of its components. We spend numerous time crafting one thing that has a sure ebb and circulate, and that may kind a musical narrative that could possibly be understood even with out the lyrics.”
Ashen Womb arrives this Friday by Darkish Descent Data and Me Saco Un Ojo Data. Take heed to Ashen Womb in its entirety completely at Decibel and pre-order a duplicate in the present day earlier than the official launch.