New York death metal lifers Immolation aren’t easing into anything, their twelfth album ‘Descent’ lands with the same suffocating weight they’ve built their name on, arriving just as they gear up to tear through North America.
Alongside the full record, Immolation have dropped ‘Bend Towards The Dark’, a track that leans hard into their more expansive instincts without losing that blunt force edge.
Check it out below:
Pushing their sound further into the void
Even by Immolation standards, this one isn’t playing it safe, the band are fully aware of where this track sits in their catalogue.
“We are excited to get one more single out as our new album DESCENT is finally released! “Bend Towards The Dark” is definitely one of the more ambitious tracks of the record. It has just about every element you would expect from IMMOLATION but takes things a bit further. It’s intense and heavy, yet becomes very epic and almost orchestral at times, really embodying a lot of feeling and emotion throughout. We really look forward to having ‘Bend Towards The Dark’ out there to ignite the release of DESCENT! We hope everyone enjoys it!”
There’s a shift here, still punishing, still dense, but with moments that stretch out into something bigger than just pure aggression.
Built across two studios, locked in with familiar hands
‘Descent’ was pieced together across multiple sessions, with guitars, bass and vocals tracked at Jpass Music, while drums were handled at Mercinary Studios.
Production duties stayed in trusted territory, with the band working alongside Zack Ohren, who also handled mixing and mastering, the end result is tight without being sterile, giving every blast beat and twisted riff room to breathe without losing impact.
Visually, Immolation have once again teamed with Eliran Kantor for the cover art, backed by internal illustrations from Santiago Jaramillo, it’s the same bleak aesthetic that’s followed them for years, but sharpened.
Immolation ‘Descent’ Tracklist
- These Vengeful Winds
- The Ephemeral Curse
- God’s Last Breath
- Adversary
- Attrition
- Bend Towards The Dark
- Host
- False Ascent
- Banished
- Descent
Get your copy here.
At this point, Immolation aren’t chasing relevance, they’ve outlasted most of their peers by sticking to what they do and refining it without compromise.
‘Descent’ doesn’t rewrite their blueprint, but it does stretch it in ways that keep things from going stale, for a band this deep into their career, that’s the difference between coasting and still having something to say.
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