New album, “Dejection Chrysalis”, out on November 7th!
Wrapped tight and immobile inside the blackened shell of despair, entangled in the thorn covered vines of bitter acceptance, I bleed out my weakness and my excuses for it, along with a pitiful selection of laughable hopes and insipid dreams. The time has come for metamorphosis, for transformation through rage, violence and a hunger for wanton destruction. The imprisoning cocoon tears beneath my new found claws and I emerge, a beast reborn, from my shattered dejection chrysalis…
Ten years since their last full length album, Fragments, Dysentery have finally re-emerged into the light, carrying with them a new album of heaviness beyond comprehension; spine-splitting slams and deep grooves like scars in the surface of the Earth. Dejection Chrysalis is the fourth album to bear the Dysentery name and if it takes a decade to carve out a bludgeoning monstrosity like this, then so be it. Instrumental opener, ‘Transference’, is so much more than a simple intro. As its title infers, it is a crossing point from normality to the world of Dysentery, a passage of mutation, configuring your mind and body for the shocking impact to come. And then you’re there, in the grip of ‘Enslavement For The Obedient, Agony For The Wayward’, utterly consumed in an instant by the thick, powerful guitars, the ultra guttural vocals and the rhythms that speak to your flesh on a primal, bestial level. ‘Exhausted Bliss Of Self Loathing’ brings furious blast beats, precision tempo shifts, riffs like heavy machinery and a guest vocal appearance from Josh Welshman of Defeated Sanity, while listening to ‘A Bestial Omen’ is like being the plaything of an oblivious giant – your limbs twisted into impossible positions, through agonizing angles as the gargantuan hands manipulate your fragile form – this is ogre music! And as the album progresses you realise just what Dysentery have achieved with Dejection Chrysalis, why it was worth waiting every moment of those ten years for. They make this music their own; with an aura of power, of untouchable force and presence. This is how you deliver brutal, slam death metal and make it meaningful and beyond devastating. From the electrifying barrage of ‘Fratricidium’ to the elite level brutality of ‘Ascend This Harrowing Dream’ there are so many great touches from the guitars, the drums, the vocals that just lift Dysentery to a level above the surrounding pack. Dynamic beyond all expectations, Dejection Chrysalis is a masterpiece of musical extremity.
Mixed and mastered by Randy LeBoeuf at Graphic Nature Audio (Kublai Khan TX, The Acacia Strain, Vomit Forth etc) Dejection Chrysalis is sonically formidable and the accompanying visual impact is supplied by the artwork of Hidris (Anhedonic, Reign Of Erebus, Snakepit etc). With added variants of vocal violence supplied by guest appearances from Josh Welshman (Defeated Sanity), Jared Weed (Concrete, Futility) and JT Knight (Invoke Thy Wrath) Dejection Chrysalis is essential. Coming your way on Comatose Music on November 7th – be ready for the return of Dysentery!
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