Apparitions will release their sophomore album, Volcanic Reality, at the end of March, and its ambient and drone metal mysteries are just waiting to be unraveled. Known for larger-than-life sensory assaults, the band doesn’t stray far from what we’ve come to expect. But these sounds hit like a ton of bricks as the surrounding landscape is pummeled into submission.
“This is an album concerned with excess,” the band explains. “We, as human beings, are unified in volatile (often violent) cosmic flows, not only with our Sun, but also our very own planet, in our shared need to squander, lose ourselves, without gain. To make music or art, in our case, is not metaphor or tied to any idealism, but sacred phenomena within the general economies of matter and energy in the universe.“
Today, the band shares “Convulsing Earth”, a colossus of droning brutality and dissonant kineticism. The guitars are completely blown out and left in ruins as the band marches towards the inevitable apocalypse. The track is marked by corrugated modular synths that buzz in the background and paint the environment is rusted hues of noise. It’s feel suffocating, as if oxygen is in short supply, and our lungs are struggling to maintain their respiratory functions. it’s overwhelming and dangerous and strangely beautiful — a wonder of metallurgical processes.
Listen below.
Volcanic Reality is due out March 24 via Deathbomb Arc. You can pre-order he album here. Follow the band on Instagram.
