The press around Abstracter‘s new single, “Cruciform,” names the track the soundtrack to the apocalypse, and we have to agree. The 10-minute epic track builds on a slow, heavy doom foundation before breaking into a dark black metal conclusion, and it’s all somehow soothing and comforting. It’s perfect for Sunday morning.
Head on over to Vice to stream “Cruciform.”
The track comes forth from the wrathful Wound Empire, which boasts the band’s most demoralizing elements to date with its 4 massive movements consuming 42 minutes. Recorded and mixed at Earhammer Studios in Oakland, California, by Greg Wilkinson (Brainoil, Pallbearer, Noothgrush, etc.) and mastered at Audiosiege Mastering studios in Portland, Oregon, by Brad Boatright (Wolves In The Throne Room, Nails, Sunn O))), Sleep, etc.), Wound Empire‘s cover art and layout was handled by the band’s friend Kevin Gan Yuen of Sutekh Hexen.
Abstracter has confirmed a hometown record release show for Wound Empire, set to take place on March 7th, at First Church Of The Buzzard in Oakland. The band will be joined by Dispirit, Alaric, and Church. Additional sporadic live actions will be declared in the coming weeks.
Set for official release on February 10, 2015, Wound Empire will see release on 12″ vinyl LP through Fragile Branch Recordings (U.S.), Vendetta Records (EU/DE), 7 Degrees Records (EU/DE), and Shove Records (EU/IT), on CD by COF Records (formerly known as Church Ov Fuck – UK), on cassette tape co-released by Sentient Ruin in collaboration with An Out Recordings, and digitally again through Sentient Ruin. The LP will see a pressing of 500 copies on black and 100 on clear wax with black and gray haze, the CD in an edition of 100 hand-assembled, four-panel, gatefold, vinyl-styled cardboard jackets with a 6 mm spine and insert, and the tape in a run of 100 with a five-panel U-card in a clear Norelco box with a cardboard outer sleeve.
Pre-orders for Wound Empire on CD, LP, cassette, and download are now available through Abstracter’s own Sentient Ruin Laboratories here. Overseas, the LP can be pre-ordered via 7 Degrees here and Vendetta here.
Rock Hard \m/
