New album “Claustrophobe” out on July 7th!
Formed in Calgary, Canada in 2016, Widow’s Peak stepped out from the dead space between the shadows with a bottle of their own distinctive tech death poison. Marrying a distinctly alien brutality to a mind warping inventiveness, a distorted glamour with an incisive, mechanistic desire for dissection they have grown into an armoured carapace of creativity that sets them worlds apart from the more simply human proponents of the savage arts. Their debut full length album, Claustrophobe, is a Pandora’s Box of twists and trickery, beguiling liquid sounds and riffs like knives. The unnerving siren’s song of ‘Blood On The Breath’ draws you into the album’s claws and then the title track deftly and precisely tears you apart. From that point on there is no escape; before you can catch your breath you are surrounded by the chittering, insectile riffs of ‘Monochrome’, laid bare and desolate beneath the ‘Pillars Of Failure’, floating blind in the black seas of ‘Heartworms I: Aorta’ – lost in an engulfing flood of wildly creative music that takes you beyond all your known boundaries. Widow’s Peak use their musical dexterity and colossal heaviness to forge something new, something shocking and enthralling. Claustrophobe is the individual, challenging, border ravaging music that technical death metal always promised to be.
Widow’s Peak have grown into a musical entity of breathtaking vision and ability. Rarely are debut full length albums so accomplished, confident and individual. Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Atheist, Artificial Brain etc) Claustrophobe is blessed with a crystal clarity that allows every intricacy, every atmospheric touch, every cascading solo to be fully appreciated. Meanwhile the album artwork, created by the band’s own Chris McCrimmon is rife with questions…a strangely unnerving image that is pregnant with possibilities and dark suggestion; utterly fitting for the multifaceted music that lurks beneath. On July 7th Widow’s Peak will offer up one of the most challenging and rewarding albums you will hear this year.
