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17,99 € (20.51 $)
Drawing frequent comparisons to mind-altering progressive death metal acts, ARTIFICIAL BRAIN have distinguished themselves from their peers through an emphasis on rich, melancholic melodic figures, contextualizing the harmonic and emotive qualities of black metal within a more aggressive death metal framework. Dissonance is threaded through elegiac, otherworldly chordal structures; saturnine tremolo melodies float along in the high registers of the instruments; guitars and bass traverse distinct paths before locking into harmonic orbit. These elements, anchored by blast beats and bellowing guttural vocals, create a sense of contrast that has come to characterize the band’s sound over the past decade.
“Artificial Brain”, the group’s final recording with original vocalist Will Smith (Afterbirth), is the terminal instalment in a trilogy that includes 2014’s “Labyrinth Constellation” and 2017’s “Infrared Horizon”. Smith’s lyrics on this eponymous LP take a retrospective look at the sci-fi mythology developed on the previous records, using these ideas to explore themes of isolation, madness, and the inexorability of nature. Rounding out the recording is an impressive roster of guest performers, including death metal legends Mike Browning (Nocturnus A.D.) and Luc Lemay (Gorguts) as well as long time collaborators Paulo Paguntalan (Miasmatic Necrosis) and Colin Marston (Krallice).
Track Listing:
1. Artificial Brain
2. Glitch Cannon
3. Celestial Cyst
4. A Lofty Grave
5. Tome Of The Exiled Engineer
6. Embalmed With Magma
7. Parasite Signal
8. Cryogenic Dreamworld
9. Insects And Android Eyes
10. Last Words Of The Wobbling Sun
Artist: ARTIFICIA BRAIN
Title: Artificial Brain
Label: Profound Lore Records
Catalog No.: PFL-273LP
Release Date: Late June/early July, 2022
UPC LP:
843563148860 (Black Vinyl)
843563148846 (Dark Blue/Light Blue Colour Mix with Green Splatter)
843563148853 (Double Orb Effect)
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11,99 € (13.67 $)
With their second full-length album “Infrared Horizon”, NY-based death metal band ARTIFICIAL BRAIN have created a sophomore release more advanced than their lauded debut album “Labyrinth Constellation”. By taking their brand of singular brutal guttural yet technical and ambient sci-fi death metal to a new galaxial plateau, “Infrared Horizon” sees the sonic architecture laid down by the band go further into the beyond and infinite.
Conceived in 2011 by guitarist Dan Gargiulo (Revocation) and vocalist Will Smith (ex-Biolich), the band would be rounded out by bass player Samuel Smith (Luminous Vault), guitarist Jon Locastro, and drummer Keith Abrami. The band would align themselves with Profound Lore Records and drop their debut album “Labyrinth Constellation” in 2014 to wide praise within the circles of death metal that range from accolades from within technical, dark, guttural, and progressive death metal respectively. Along with decent touring around “Labyrinth Constellation”, the band would also have their music played and were even name dropped on multiple occasions in the popular CBS television shows Elementary and Limitless.
Once again produced by Colin Marson (Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, Krallice) at The Thousand Caves, “Infrared Horizon” (featuring art by Adam Burke) sees ARTIFICIAL BRAIN traveling towards a sonic realm where the music has become more brutal and dissonant, technical, atmospheric, and just overall more otherworldly. Delving into the lyrics and themes of “Infrared Horizon”, themes such as dealing with the concept of a dystopian future in which robots and cyborgs have outlived human beings. Robots and Cyborgs who believe themselves to be not of creation of the long extinct humans but a more perfect evolution of them. The scenarios take place all over outer space and on unnamed planets (not necessarily Earth).
Tracklist:
1. Floating in Delirium
2. Synthesized Instinct
3. Static Shattering
4. Estranged from Orbit
5. Infrared Horizon
6. Anchored to the Inlayed Arc
7. Mist like Mercury
8. Vacant Explorer
9. Graveyard of Lightless Planets
10. Ash Eclipse"
Label: Profound Lore Records
Media type: CD 4-Panel Digipack
Release date: April 21, 2017
Genre: Death Metal
After many years of being out of print, the debut album from ARTIFICIAL BRAIN “Labyrinth Constellation”, the album that launched this new era of sci-fi death metal, is once again available on vinyl format in two limited colour variants.
Track Listing: 1. Brain Transplant, 2. Absorbing Black Ignition, 3. Wired Opposites, 4. Worm Harvester, 5. Frozen Planets, 6. Orbital Gait, 7. Bastard Planet, 8. Labyrinth Constellation, 9. Hormone’s Echo, 10. Moon Funeral
Artist: ARTIFICIAL BRAIN
Title: Labyrinth Constellation
Label: Profound Lore Records
Catalog No.: PFL-127.5
UPC:
Black Blood Orb Vinyl (UPC 843563178096)
Galactic Star w/Red Splatter Vinyl (UPC 843563178102)
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23,99 € (27.35 $)
After many years of being out of print, the debut album from ARTIFICIAL BRAIN “Labyrinth Constellation”, the album that launched this new era of sci-fi death metal, is once again available on vinyl format in two limited colour variants.
Track Listing: 1. Brain Transplant, 2. Absorbing Black Ignition, 3. Wired Opposites, 4. Worm Harvester, 5. Frozen Planets, 6. Orbital Gait, 7. Bastard Planet, 8. Labyrinth Constellation, 9. Hormone’s Echo, 10. Moon Funeral
Artist: ARTIFICIAL BRAIN
Title: Labyrinth Constellation
Label: Profound Lore Records
Catalog No.: PFL-127.5
UPC:
Black Blood Orb Vinyl (UPC 843563178096)
Galactic Star w/Red Splatter Vinyl (UPC 843563178102)