Year : 2026 (Profound Lore Records Edition)
Style : Technical Death Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 99 mb
Bio:
Artificial Brain are a technical death metal quintet from Long Island, New York.Their core sound weds pummeling tech and death metal to the buzzing edges and Phrygian mode scales of black metal with an angular, dissonant edge and nearly subliminal growling vocals using science fiction themes as lyric inspiration. The self-released, three-track Demo 2011 presented the band with opportunities for regional touring while 2013's Butchering Cosmic Giants EP won notice globally, netting them a record deal with . 2014's long-playing debut, Labyrinth Constellation, was produced, mixed, and mastered by Colin Marston; it scored dozens of positive reviews for its bracing modern approach to death metal. 2017's Infrared Horizon proved more experimental and wide-ranging, resulting in a prime slot on 's tour. Founding vocalist Will Smith left the band in September 2021. He was replaced by vocalist Paulo Paguntalan for immediate touring, though Smith's voice had already been recorded for material on 2022's Artificial Brain.
Album:
Artifical Brain return with “Antillia”, their fourth full-length album and first since 2022.Space and time transform their passengers; all boundaries are permeable. ARTIFICIAL BRAIN wrestles at length with this reality on Antillia, the band’s fourth LP out Nov 13th. Its nine tales of cosmic woe repeatedly invoking images of invasion and penetration: strange diseases filter down from the sky; pollutants corrupt the water and soil; medical nanobots trigger cancerous plagues; alien subversives undermine terrestrial governments. Again and again, humans are defiled and transformed as they struggle to navigate the sea of stars.Artificial Brain itself has been similarly transmuted by their local environment. After a period of operation as a six-person international collective, the band has established a new base of operations in Richmond, Virginia. In doing so, they have absorbed some local contaminants of their own in the form of vocalist Mike Paparo (Inter Arma) and drummer Alex Tomlin (Battlemaster). Rounding out the lineup for the new era of the band are the founding-member core of guitarist Dan Gargiulo and bassist Samuel Smith along with most-recent guitarist Oleg Zalman. Other satellites in the band’s orbit remain familiar, like recurring guest vocalist Paulo Pangutalan (Miasmatic Necrosis) and longtime ally Ian Jacyszyn (Aeviterne), who delivered Antillia’s mix – a marvel of gritty, lived-in detail, as impeccably designed as the bridge of the space freighter Nostromo in Ridley Scott’s Alien.The core premise of Artificial Brain’s music remains consistent, too: a grafting of sinuous, futuristic black metal melody onto a dense and imposing death metal skeleton. Antillia brings a new degree of urgency to this distinctive formula. It is their shortest and most aggressive album to date; its blastbeat-laden cacophony is by turns punctuated by riotous solos and shrouded by a nimbus of hazy textures.Despite its ferocious clamor, Antillia’s primary emotional affect is melancholic, even wistful. A sense of loss and surrender permeates the record, most strikingly articulated by its title track’s ode to a homeworld irretrievably abandoned to the void: “Was it ever real? Was it ever real?” For Artificial Brain, the future has ceased to serve as a repository for optimistic dreams. It is here, now, in all its horror, visiting itself upon our bodies and minds, whether we like it or not.Antillia was recorded/mixed by Ian Jacyszyn (Miasmatic Necrosis, Aeviterne) and mastered by Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts. Defeated Sanity etc.). Artwork by Fleshflies.Date of release is November 13, 2026.
Line Up:
Mike Paparo - Vocals (2023-present) - See also: Dreamless Veil, Filth Chasm, Inter Arma, ex-Bastard Sapling, ex-Dick Butkis, ex-Hatred Profound, ex-Loud Night, ex-False Hope
Dan Gargiulo - Guitars, Vocals (2011-present) - See also: Dreamless Veil, Ortolan, Fire Magic (live), Spite (live), ex-Cyanide Breed, ex-Loud Night, ex-Revocation, ex-Abbath (live)
Oleg Zalman - Guitars (2022-present) - See also: Ortolan, Severed Savior (live), Sunrise Patriot Motion, ex-Haagenti
Samuel Smith - Bass, Vocals (2011-present) - See also: Aeviterne, Gath Šmânê, Luminous Vault, ex-Fawn Limbs
Alex Tomlin - Drums (2023-present) - See also: Battlemaster, Inter Arma (live), Locusta (live), ex-Hoboknife, ex-Neckbrace, ex-Midnight Eye, The Skin, ex-Eradicant, ex-Book of Wyrms (live), ex-Loud Night (live), ex-Withered (live), ex-Arsis (live), ex-Accursed Dawn, ex-Mutilation Rites (live), ex-Occultist (live)
+ guests:
Doug Moore - Vocals (Track 1)
Paulo Paguntalan - Vocals (Tracks 2 and 7)
Andrea Collaro - Vocals (Track 5)
Kevin Hufnagel - Guitar (Track 4)
Production:
Mixed by Ian Jacyszyn
Mastered by Colin Marston @ The Thousand Caves
Vocals recorded by David Waltenbaugh
Guitars and bass recorded by Dan Gargiulo and Ian Jacyszyn
Drums and additional guitars recorded by Dan-O Deckelman @ Sound of Music Studios
Cover art by Fleshflies
Design by Zach Wise
Tracklist:
01. The Wandering Star Prion 03:57
02. Quantum Malignancies 03:53
03. Obsidian Agents 03:11
04. Deciphering the Anachronistic Tongues of the Relic Satellites 05:23
05. Planet: Carrion 04:24
06. Against the Furthest Reaches of the Light 04:32
07. Cosmic Death Church 05:23
08. Solar Ark 04:56
09. Antillia (In Chromatic Aberration) 06:23
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